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My votes: Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS

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Management by RBA Capture Utility of offline DB2 in a Sysplex

At this time if we configure all DB2 we have in a Sysplex in all RBA capture utility we have errors messages on systems where DB2s are down. In a Sysplex and Datasharing groups DB2s members and Single instance could move from LPAR to LPAR dependin...
3 days ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Ability to select objects by package

Add the ability to add all the objects for a package instead of having to add each one. Current process is very inefficient.
6 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to exclude PBR partitions/TS PBG that had no activity before JCL generation

Recovery Expert should have an option to exclude objects/partitions from the recovery which had no activity. Even though this would be caught by the Recover Utility, why build JCL that contains TS/Partitions which would not be recover. This causes...
6 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Recovery Expert option to externalise the Recovery Health asset list (Image Copy and Log Dataset names) in Batch and Online

Recovery Expert has a validation and Recovery Health option. As an extension to this option it will really help the user base if there is an option provided to externalise the Image Copies and the LOG datasets, as a list, that will be used for the...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhancements for Fast Apply

We are new to IBM Fast Apply and have been using a competitor product. With IBM we are experiencing some pain points and the tool is frankly not up to standards with what we purchased. HIGH priority!
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Support for OCSP or CRL

Our auditors require that every SSL connection uses OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) or CRL (Certificate Revocation List). As far as I know, this is not yet supported for Db2 Recovery Expert. I would ask to consider making this posssible.
9 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Writers on the Jobcard

At California Depart of Technology (CDT), we use a second party software to write out and store joblog sysout. This software is called SAR. When we were creating a Log Based Recovery in the URL GUI of Recovery Expert we ran into an ARYX093S error....
10 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Add TOLASTFULLCOPY for RECOVER option

TOLASTFULLCOPY: Specifies that the RECOVER utility is to restore the object to the last full image copy that was taken. the DBAs are requesting that Rocket provide a TOCOPY recovery to the last full copy. They understand Rocket’s position that rec...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Allow connections to db2 luw databases to use SSL

Our company is in the middle of implementing an 'in-flight data encryption' for all database activity that requires SSL use. Other IBM products such as IBM Data Studio and Data Server Manager allow for connections to databases using SSL jdbc drive...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Load file which can be used in LOAD RESUME YES for REDO records

When generating REDO SQLs for a transaction recovery scenario an option to generate a load file (to be used in LOAD RESUME YES) containing the REDO record will be nice to have where there were a lot of records to apply say millions and the users u...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration