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IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS

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IMS Recovery Expert - needs to work with uncatalogued datasets in IMS control region

This idea originates from IBM case # TS011260089. IBM told me to open an RFE which linked me to create an idea for IMS Recovery Solution Pack. " We had a discussion with our development team, we think it is possible to support not cataloged data s...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

In IMS Recovery Expert, provide estimate of time to recover

Typically when customers are faced with a situation where they may need to take an application offline and perform database recovery, they would like to have an estimate of the time it will take to recover in order to make a decision on if and whe...
about 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Future consideration

In IMS Recovery Expert, if there is no quiet time, show least busy times.

Currently, IMS Recovery Expert only shows quiet times when the database does not have any inflight Units of Work. When looking at recovery scenarios with Cyber Vault situations, we may have periods of time that we will need to recover to where the...
about 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Not under consideration