BMC AMI Application Restart Control for Db2, IMS, and VSAM 4.2

The BMC AMI Application Restart Control (formerly known as APPLICATION RESTART CONTROL) products work separately or together to provide services for application programs that use the following types of data structures:

  • Sequential files, using queued sequential access method (QSAM)
  • IBM Db2 tables
  • IBM IMS full-function, Fast Path, and/or GSAM databases
  • Virtual storage access method (VSAM) data sets
  • Any combinations of these data structures

BMC AMI Application Restart Control for IMS (AR/CTL for IMS) works independently in application programs that use IMS databases only, sequential files only, or both. AR/CTL for IMS works with BMC AMI Application Restart Control for VSAM (AR/CTL for VSAM) in programs that use IMS databases and VSAM data sets. These programs can also use sequential files. AR/CTL for IMS works with BMC AMI Application Restart Control for Db2 (AR/CTL for Db2) in programs that use Db2 tables, IMS databases, and Db2 oriented services of AR/CTL in an IMS environment. These programs can also use sequential files. However, AR/CTL for IMS can work alone with programs that use Db2 tables and IMS databases but do not use the Db2 oriented services of AR/CTL.

This space contains information about version 4.2.00 of the BMC AMI Application Restart Control (AR/CTL) products.

Notices Updated 30 Mar 2020

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Planning

Deployment planning and system requirements

Installing

Installation, configuration, and maintenance

Customizing after installation

Post-installation product customization

Administering

Security and system administration

Using

Working with the product

Batch Control Facility

Using the BCF component

Working with infrastructure

Management of shared components

Messages

BMC messages for the following product lines:
  • BMC AMI Cost products
  • BMC AMI Data for Db2 products
  • BMC AMI Data for IMS products
  • BMC AMI Ops products
  • BMC AMI Security products

Troubleshooting

Common issues

Reference

Reference information
PDFs and videos

This topic provides access to PDFs and videos that support this product. It also explains how to create your own custom PDFs.

Ready-made space PDFs

The following table provides ready-made PDFs that contain snapshots of the content in this space. Ready-made PDFs are available for new releases and product updates within seven calendar days of their release. Although these PDFs contain all topics, the online topics might be more current, and the content of some topics might be better suited for online viewing.

Snapshot PDF file

Date

File size

October 17, 2024

5,036 KB

April 29, 2024

5,012 KB

April 05, 2024

4,994 KB

October 06, 2023

4,983 KB

April 06, 2023

4,818 KB

January 10, 2023

4,840 KB

November 04, 2022

4,836 KB

October 06, 2022

4,832 KB

August 16, 2022

4,828 KB

July 05, 2021

4,978 KB

May 31, 2021

4,835 KB

April 06, 2021

4,561 KB

January 29, 2021

4,407 KB

October 22, 2020

4,374 KB

September 26, 2019

4,263 KB

December 22, 2017

4,349 KB

Legacy PDFs related to this space

The following legacy PDFs provide older product documentation that is not otherwise available in this documentation portal:

Document

Title

Date

BMC Performance Manager for WebSphere MQ Message Management Command Line Interface Reference Manual

 February 29, 2008

Creating a custom PDF

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Videos

This section lists videos that supplement the text-based documentation.

This library offers Quick Courses related to BMC AMI Application Restart Control products:

 

 

Title

Duration

(Administration series) Using AR/CTL

8:58

7:19

6:07

8:15

7:25

(Programming series) Getting started with AR/CTL

9:11

(Programming series) Checkpoint/Restart concepts

10:05

(Programming series) IMS checkpoints

5:59

(Programming series) AR/CTL Checkpoints

7:41

(Programming series) Common Checkpoints

3:34

(Programming series) Using DB2 Commits

7:12

(Programming series) Dynamic Checkpoint

5:16

(Programming series) Understanding ASAM

7:36

(Programming series) Understanding Restart

8:02

(Programming series) Restart logic

6:16

4:24


 

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