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Automatically Include Logically Related Databases in IMS DRF Recovery

We would like to request an enhancement to IMS Database Recovery Facility (DRF) to improve its handling of logically related databases during recovery operations. Currently, DRF only recovers the database explicitly specified in the input statemen...
5 months ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Perform Batch Reanalysis on FA Originating LPAR in SYSPLEX

This idea would benefit all users who run Fault Analyzer in a sysplex environment, use Fault History Views that cover history files from different LPARs in said sysplex, and have LPAR specific dependencies where running the batch reanalysis on an ...
24 days ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0

Ability to specify MSGCLASS for Subordinate Address Spaces

When running a Database Recover Facility batch job (FRXSDR00) to recover an IMS Database, subordinate address spaces are spawned. Would like a way to specify the MSGCLASS of those subordinate address spaces.
almost 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Functionality already exists

Request to provide a ZAP or work around for Fault analyzer v16 to read LE delimiter separator character from default "/" to "\".

Request to provide a ZAP or work around for Fault analyzer v16 to read LE delimiter separator character from default "/" to "\".We do have a zos usermod in one of client system which changes the LE delimiter separator character from "/" to "\" and...
8 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add JCL Generation Capability Using PGM=HPSCMAIN for DBs with Multiple DSGs in the InitOnly Option

The current initialization process supports only fast path and full-function DB initialization when a single DSG and primary index are associated with the database. However, our team has multiple applications with databases that require initializa...
9 months ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Error message FABJ0192E is issued for indexes in DRF recovery when ICNDX(Y) is specified in UTILGBL, even though index databases are RECOVERABLE = NO.

In this scenario, image copies of index databases should not be attempted so the error message is confusing/misleading.
over 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Planned for future release

Make IBM Fault analyzer to work with BLKOFF option as well

In our organization we have used BLKOFF as default option while compiling programs and now to introduce Fault analyzer its not an easy transition as by default we are not able to use the existing compile listing as side files. We have to re-compil...
11 months ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

DRF - avoid S878 abend in IB by reducing the number of sort processes per IB main job

The customer have been having frequent S878 abends in DRF recovery job during DR exercises when Index Builder is invoked. The idea is to divide the HALDB PRIMARY INDEX and ILDS construction into two separate IB jobs, the number of sort processes p...
about 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Future consideration

Add a new feature to start DRF SAS according to SORTPARM(NUM(nnn)) even if STACK was specified.

The customer ran into a problem where thousands of output image copies were taken after a recovery during DR exercise because STACK keyword was not specified (STACK causes all the DBs in that recovery profile to be pointed to one IDRF0001 job and ...
about 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 2 Future consideration

DBRC Extracts

Useful for querying recovery related information
over 1 year ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Future consideration