System requirements

For installation information, see the Installation System documentation . For configuration information, see the Customizing BMC Products and Solutions for DB2 documentation .

Review this section for recommendations and requirements before you use BMC AMI Recovery Manager.

Db2 support

This version of BMC AMI Recovery Manager supports Db2 Versions 11 through 12.

System requirements

This version of BMC AMI Recovery Manager requires:

• z/OS Version 1.7 or later
• ISPF Version 3.1 or later

BMC product and component requirements

This version of BMC AMI Recovery Manager has the following requirements for BMC products and components:

• For BMC AMI Recovery Manager, version 11.2.00 is the minimum supported release for the following BMC products for Db2:

  • BMC AMI Copy
  • Log Master
  • BMC AMI Recover

  If you try to use BMC AMI Copy or BMC AMI Recover versions earlier than 11.2.00 with BMC AMI Recovery Manager versions 11.2.00 or later, BMC AMI Recovery Manager online and ARMBGEN JCL generation for both backup and recovery issues message BMC80324E and ends with a return code 8.

  Because versions earlier than 9.2.00 use a different repository and do not support OBJECTSET syntax, BMC AMI Recovery Manager cannot generate JCL for BMC AMI Copy or BMC AMI Recover for those versions.

• BMC Solution Common Code (SCC) version 11.1.00 or later

  SCC is a set of technologies that provide common processes for several BMC products for Db2 including BMC AMI Recovery Manager.

  This component is installed during BMC AMI Recovery Manager installation but is maintained separately from BMC AMI Recovery Manager.

• BMC Db2 Component Services (DBC) version 10.1.00 or later

  Using DBC, you can type a question mark (?) in the first position in the Subsystem / objectset attach name field on the BMC AMI Recovery Manager Main Menu to display the available SSIDs. If you do this without DBC running, BMC AMI Recovery Manager issues an error message indicating that DBC was not found.

  DBC is also used to work with option sets and the Db2 Product Configuration technology.

  To use BMC Db2 Component Services (DBC) with BMC AMI Recovery Manager, you must have a DBC started task running.

  For more information about DBC, see the Common mainframe infrastructure documentation.

• BMC EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER (XBM) or SNAPSHOT UPGRADE FEATURE (SUF) version 5.6 with PTF BPE0313 or BMC EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER (XBM) or SNAPSHOT UPGRADE FEATURE (SUF) version 6.1

• If you want to offload eligible processing to a zIIP, you must have installed a minimum of version 5.6 with PTF BPE0313 of either XBM or SUF.

  Important

  To enable Db2 Version 10 support, XBM and SUF also require PTF BPE0311.

  If you use the XBMID option to specify a particularXBM subsystem, that subsystem must be at this maintenance level. If you do not specify a particular XBM subsystem and ZIIP ENABLED is in effect, BMC AMI Recovery Manager searches for an XBM subsystem at this level.

• Additional information about BMC products and Db2

  If you want the enhanced performance that is provided by the BMC utilities for Db2, you should have the BMC AMI Recover, BMC AMI Copy, CHECK PLUS, EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER, and PACLOG products installed. The following table shows the recommended minimum version of these utilities required for full support and exploitation of each supported version of Db2.

  In situations where an installed BMC utility does not support the Db2 recovery scenario, BMC AMI Recovery Manager uses DSNUTILB.

^{1 This topic lists product versions for informational purposes only. BMC does not necessarily support all of the listed versions. For information about supported versions, see the BMC website at http://www.bmc.com.}

^{2 To use R+/CHANGE ACCUM, you must have BMC AMI Recover installed.}