Preparing recovery jobs

To prepare a recovery job for one or more object sets, you must supply a recovery point and values for some related options.

You can usually accept the defaults for most of these variables. You must also supply the names of the data set where the output JCL is to be placed and the job card information for that JCL (see Output-data-sets-job-cards-and-symbolic-variables).

Related topic

Recovering-object-sets


Important

BMC AMI Recovery Manager does not currently support objects having the following Db2 Version 8 statuses:

  • Versioned table spaces (ALTSCHEMA status)
  • Table spaces defined with table-based partitioning (TBLPART status)

Message BMC80539 will be generated when generating backup or recovery JCL for object sets that contain objects with these statuses.

You can generate the recovery JCL entirely interactively or by using the batch generation program, ARMBGEN. Which method you use depends on such things as whether you want to change object set and object recovery options and the reason for generating the JCL. For more discussion about the criteria, you can use to decide how to create the recovery job, see Choosing-interactive-or-batch-generation.

Whichever method you use, you can select the type of recovery for the object set or object sets that you specify. The types of recovery available when you use BMC AMI Recovery Manager to generate a recovery job for an object set are:

  • Recovery to the current time
  • Recovery to a specified image copy
  • Recovery to a specified quiesce point
  • Recovery to a selected common point
  • Recovery to a restart RBA (not available interactively)
  • Recovery to a specified LRSN (with or without inflight resolution)
  • Recovery to a timestamp (Recovery Management for Db2 solution only)
  • Recovery to a BMC AMI Log Master for Db2 log mark (Recovery Management for Db2 solution only)

You can also optionally specify the following:

  • A recovery strategy that eliminates unchanged objects from the recovery
  • A recovery that uses only the Db2 log (see BACKOUT-recovery)

  • A printed report of the resources that are required prior to a recovery

    You can request this report either without performing the recovery or in addition to performing the recovery.

  • A simulation of recovery for the application spaces (see Recovery-simulation-for-application-spaces)

This is a feature of the Recovery Management for Db2 solution.

For more information about recovery type specifications, see Options-for-recovery-JCL-generation.

Important

Unless you plan to accept the current recovery option values for the object set, whatever they may be, you must change them before you generate the recovery JCL. Recovery options are accessible from the Object List panel (for individual objects) and from the Object Set Edit panel (by object set). For detailed information, see Setting-utility-options.


 

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