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My votes: Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS

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Dynamically manage the size of DD DSNINFO for Recover expert SLB

DD DSNINFO is hardcoded with fixed allocation parameters, and they are not always sufficient. A manual override is needed. Given that the workload has been increasing over the years, the default values may no longer suffice, requiring more frequen...
11 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Priorities of application profiles should be honored by application group when doing recovery

When combining several application profiles with differenct priorities into an application group, these should be taken into account when a recovery plan is executed so that the objects in the highest prioritised profile are reovered first.Today t...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered

Display Login screen with LPAR before show Db2 ssid

1./ Show the Login screen with User_id, Password and LPARs/sysplexes. - User provide User_Id/Password and specific LPAR_id. - (Please see the same concept of Query Monitor) if a login is successful (a user is authorized at this LPAR), show list of...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add option to use manage option SMSDSEXIST in ICKDSF for option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes

Our site have an option to protect volumes with datasets from INIT with ICKDSF and when we run Recovery expert with option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes it fail with messages : 09:58:46 ARYS278I - Task 01 - Unit 9A01 was initialized with volser...
9 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Generate Recover instead of Rebuild for COPY YES Indexes when using Redirected Recovery for Indexes defined as COPY YES

Scenario: Redirected Recovery for TS and TB with COPY YES indexes Recovery Expert generates Rebuild index DSNUTILB cards even for indexes which are defined as COPY YES and have a valid copy that can be used in a Recover statement. IBM recover util...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add support for HSM messages from SLB to Recover Expert

DB2 SLB utility introduced support for providing the associated HSM messages to the utility's SYSPRINT via zparm UTILS_HSM_MSGDS_HLQ. This high-level qualifier must also be registered in HSM via a SETSYS command. Data sets that use this high-leve...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered

Improve cursor positioning on panel ARYGMSQT

I set up a redirected recover profile. I want to do object translations and am directed to panel ARYGMSQT, the Object Translation screen. The 'I'nsert line command is already in place when this screen is presented. I hit Enter to add the first tra...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Recovery status screen

We want to be able to follow up on the status of the recovery: Which jobs have run, which have completed, which have failed. This is essential when handling a major recovery.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Delivered

Db2 Archive Tables Are Not Available for Selection in Recovery Expert

When using the GUI to display a list of tables under a schema used for Db2 Archive Transparency tables, none of the archive tables are shown. (In my case, only the LOB tables that are associated with the archive tables were displayed.) It seems co...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Explanation of Pre-selected Recovery Plans

It is unclear to the user of RE as to why certain recovery plans are pre-selected when generating a recovery plan for an object. There needs to be a clear explanation as to why certain recovery plans automatically pre-selected by RE when using opt...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered