Registration of copies

Registration for encrypted image copies

Because the encrypted image copies produced by the COPY TABLESPACE, COPY INDEXSPACE, or COPY IMAGECOPY commands are non-standard, encrypted image copies are registered in the BMCXCOPY table.

For details of the BMXCOPY table, see BMCXCOPY-table.

An STYPE value of e indicates that the image copy is encrypted. In a recovery, you must use BMC AMI Recover with encrypted image copies.

BMC AMI Copy will reset copy pending when an encrypted copy is produced.

Registration for plaintext image copies

Plaintext full image copies are registered in SYSCOPY.

Instant Snapshot copies and certain index space copies are exceptions and are registered according to the rules for BMCXCOPY. (For more information, see Registration-of-Instant-Snapshots and Creating-index-backups.)

A plaintext incremental is registered in SYSCOPY if the most recent primary full copy of the same site type is also plaintext. If the most recent primary full copy of the same site type is encrypted, the incremental is registered in BMCXCOPY.

You can use BMC AMI Recover or the IBM Db2 RECOVER utility to recover using plaintext copies that are registered in SYSCOPY. But you must use BMC AMI Recover for recovery if the image copies are encrypted or the plaintext copies are registered in BMCXCOPY.