System requirements

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

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

Db2 support

This version of BMC AMI Recovery Manager supports all IBM-supported versions of Db2.

System version requirements

This version of BMC AMI Recovery Manager requires any IBM-supported version of z/OS and ISPF.

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 13.1.00 is the minimum supported release for the following BMC products for Db2:

  • BMC AMI Copy
  • BMC AMI Log Master
  • BMC AMI Recover

  
  

• BMC Solution Common Code (SCC) version 13.1.00 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) 

  Using DBC, select option 9 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.

• If you want to offload eligible processing to a zIIP, you must have installed any supported version of XBM or SUF.

  If you use the XBMID option to specify a particular XBM 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.}