Key concepts

BMC AMI Recovery Manager can perform the following tasks:

• Coordinates recoveries among multiple Db2 subsystems

• Automates definition of application object sets

• Generates optimized backup and recovery JCL

• Provides log analysis of unchanged objects

• Audits recoverability of applications

• Avoids backup and recovery for unchanged objects

• Identifies valid recovery points

You can use BMC AMI Recovery Manager to prepare backup and recovery JCL for many Db2 application failure scenarios and for system resource maintenance and recovery scenarios. Use BMC AMI Recovery Manager to prepare for disaster recovery and to recover applications and system resources at a recovery site in both data sharing and non-data-sharing situations with JCL that specifies one or more IBM or BMC utilities.

You can perform most functions interactively through the BMC AMI Recovery Manager ISPF menu-driven user interface. You also have the option of performing many recovery functions in batch mode.

This section contains the following topics:

• How BMC AMI Recovery Manager works
• Creating application object sets for backup or recovery
• Specifying utilities and syntax options
• Validating and revalidating application object sets
• Maintaining backing up and recovering system resources
• Generating backup and recovery JCL
• Output data sets, job cards, and symbolic variables
• BMC AMI Recovery Manager batch programs
• Interactive versus batch processing
• BMC AMI Recovery Manager option sets and configuration options
• BMC AMI Recovery Manager backup and recovery options