Customizing after installation

Customization helps your installation obtain maximum flexibility when processing a recovery task. The customization process is optional. You can choose not to customize at all. The internal default values for Recovery utility options are designed to be compatible with the IMS utilities.

You can use any or all of the following methods for customizing the Recovery utility:

• keywords on utility control statements

  For certain recovery jobs, you might want to specify customization keywords on the GLBL or other control statement.

• global options modules

  You can use a global options module to specify the values you want to use most of the time for most databases. The values in the global options module override the Recovery utility internal defaults.

• database-specific options modules

  Since you might want to use another set of values for other databases, you could create a database-specific option module in the PDX to handle special cases for selected databases. A PDX is a special data set used by the BMC IMS Database Utilities products for storing customization options and reports.

This section contains the following topics:

• Choosing a level of customization
• Creating global options modules
• Creating database-specific options
• How the Recovery utility builds the option table