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Preserve data integrity

A company’s data is critical to its day-to-day operation and its ongoing success.

Lost, incorrect, or incomplete data could have disastrous consequences for the company and its customers.

Perhaps the most important goal of data management is to preserve data integrity. Although IMS is a highly reliable data management system, any system is vulnerable to procedural, hardware, and software errors. Data managers must keep these errors from destroying vital data.

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BMC AMI Online Reorg for IMS solutions help preserve data integrity by providing the following features and benefits:

  • Enhanced data integrity
    The Reorg function checks the JCL for logic errors. The database data sets that are used by the unload process must contain data, and those used by the reload must be empty. The Reorg function checks for these conditions, increasing reliability and preventing errors such as overwriting data.
  • Recoverability
    When you use the Online Reorg function or the Reorg function to reorganize a database, your original database is preserved and you can revert to it in the unlikely event of a failure. In a traditional reorganization, you probably delete the database data sets after the unload process is complete. If a failure occurs during load processing, you are forced to restart the load process or begin an image copy restore (or full recovery) before you can make the database available again. You don’t need to recover the database (because the original data sets still exist).

 

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BMC AMI Online Reorg for IMS 5.1