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  • CHANGE ACCUMULATION PLUS
  • IMAGE COPY PLUS
  • RECOVERY MANAGER for IMS
  • RECOVERY PLUS for IMS
We are no longer updating the individual documentation spaces for these components. For the latest documentation, see BMC AMI Backup and Recovery for IMS 5.2.

Maintaining IDCAMS database allocation statements (Disaster Recovery)

The RMGR Automatic Delete/Define (DRAMS) utility captures allocation information about IMS database data sets and builds PDS members that contain TSO allocation or IDCAMS delete/define control statements.

This utility helps you to maintain up-to-date allocation information about your IMS data bases. After the utility builds the PDS members, you can refer to this PDS in an RMGR profile and use this profile with the Create Recovery JCL function.

Related topics

Preparing-the-basics-for-disaster-recovery

To create allocation JCL

  1. On a regular basis, use the Capture function of the DRAMS utility to capture allocation information to build database allocation statements. For more information, see Automatic-Delete-Define-DRAMS-utility.
  2. If you plan to restore the catalogs but not the database data sets at the DR site, use the DELETENOSCRATCH=YES or DELETENOSCRATCH=BOTH option when you use the Build function of the DRAMS utility to build PDS members.


 

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