BMC AMI Recovery for Db2 customization tasks

After you install and configure the BMC AMI Recovery for Db2solution, you must customize the components of BMC AMI Recovery for Db2to operate in your environment.

This solution includes the following products or components:

  • APPLICATION RESTART CONTROL for Db2

  • CHECK PLUS for DB2

  • BMC AMI Check for Db2

  • BMC AMI Copy for Db2

  • BMC AMI Log Master for Db2

  • BMC AMI Recover for Db2

  • BMC AMI Recovery Manager for Db2

  • SNAPSHOT UPGRADE FEATURE for Db2 (SUF, also known as XBM)

  • BMC AMI Command Center for Db2

After you finish installing the solution, you must customize the components of BMC AMI Recovery for Db2to operate in your environment.

Summary of BMC AMI Recovery for Db2customization tasks

Customization task

Description and link

Controlling access and setting user authorizations

Before you run the IVP jobs for the products that make up BMC AMI Recovery for Db2, you must grant the appropriate user authorizations.

Completing tasks specific to BMC AMI Recovery Manager

You must customize BMC AMI Recovery Managerto operate in your environment.

See the BMC AMI Recovery Manager customization tasks table.

Completing tasks specific to XBM

After you finish installing the product, you must customize XBM.

See SNAPSHOT UPGRADE FEATURE for DB2 (SUF, also known as XBM) customization tasks.

(Optional) Enabling interaction between products in the BMC AMI Recovery for Db2solution

If you did not install this solution at the same time as the Administrative products, you might need to complete the following tasks:

Customizing APPLICATION RESTART CONTROL for Db2

For details, see the customization topics in APPLICATION RESTART CONTROL documentation Open link .

Setting the MEMLIMIT system parameter

See Setting the MEMLIMIT system parameter.

Completing tasks specific to BMC AMI Check

See the BMC AMI Utilities products specific customization tasks table.

Completing tasks specific to BMC AMI Command Center for Db2

See the BMC AMI Command Center specific customization tasks table.

Verifying Backup and Recovery product and Utility product installation

The Installation System generates an installation verification procedure (IVP) job for each installed Backup and Recovery or Utility product. To help ensure that a product installed properly, BMC strongly recommends that you run the corresponding IVP job.

See Verifying Backup and Recovery product and Utility product installation.

The following tables list additional customization tasks that apply to specific products or components within the solution.

BMC AMI Recovery Managercustomization tasks

Customization task

Description and link

Required temporary tables for BMC AMI Recovery Manager

BMC AMI Recovery Manager requires declared Db2 global temporary tables.

See Required temporary tables for BMC AMI Recovery Manager.

Preparing for archive logs greater than 64 KB tracks

To successfully use archive logs greater than 64 KB tracks, you must set up some SMS rules.

See Preparing for archive logs greater than 64 KB tracks.

Migrating from an earlier version of BMC AMI Recovery Manager

Additional tasks, which are dependent on the versions you are updating from and to, are necessary if you migrating from an earlier version of BMC AMI Recovery Manager.

See Migrating from an earlier version of BMC AMI Recovery Manager.

Setting up data sharing for BMC AMI Recovery Manager for Db2

Required if you have installed BMC AMI Recovery Manager for some of your Db2 subsystems and are now preparing to migrate to data sharing.

See Setting up data sharing for BMC AMI Recovery Manager for Db2.

BMC AMI Recovery Manager for Db2 archive history file

You should create an archive history file for each Db2 subsystem on which disaster recovery procedures will be generated.

See BMC AMI Recovery Manager for Db2 archive history file.

BMC AMI Recovery Manager for Db2 option set

The ARM$OPTS, which is the default option set, contains information for all subsystems that share the BMC AMI Recovery Manager for Db2load libraries and control files.

See BMC AMI Recovery Manager for Db2 option set.

BMC AMI Recovery Manager for Db2 packages

SYSPACKAGE in the Db2 catalog will need to be cleaned up by using the FREE command because each release of BMC AMI Recovery Manager introduces a new version of each package.

See BMC AMI Recovery Manager for Db2 packages.

BMC AMI Recovery Manager for Db2 repository

A repository is required for each Db2 subsystem. In a data sharing environment, one repository is required for each data sharing group.

See BMC AMI Recovery Manager for Db2 repository.

BMC AMI Utilities products specific customization tasks

Customization task

Reference

Setting up data set access and security settings

See BMC AMI Utilities data set access and security settings.

Setting up BMC AMI Utilities authorizations

See BMC AMI Utilities authorizations.

Setting up checkpoints

See Checkpoint data set considerations.

Specifying the global utility parameters

See the Parameters topic of the space for each product.

Specifying BMC AMI Checkparameters

See BMC AMI Check for Db2 documentation Open link .

Starting the BMC AMI Utilities Subsystem

BMC AMI Command Center specific customization tasks

Customization task

Description and link

Reading the customization overview

This section provides important background information about customizing BMC AMI Command Center.

See Customization overview.

Installing SYSPROC.ADMIN_COMMAND_DSN

If you have not installed SYSPROC.ADMIN_COMMAND_DSN, then perform this task.

See BMC AMI Command Center for Db2 requirements.

(Optional) Editing the BMC AMI Command Centeroption set

The installation process automatically creates a default option set named GUDOPT that is based on definitions that you supply during installation. If required, you can edit this option set.

See Editing the BMC AMI Command Center option set.

Customizing Common Explain

Customize Common Explain for use with BMC AMI Command Center.

See Common Explain.

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