Audience
IMS professionals (systems programmers, database administrators, senior application programmers, technical support staff) who want a detailed understanding of DBRC and its use in managing and recovering IMS logs, databases, and systems
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Allocate, initialize, maintain and recover RECON datasets
- Use the GENJCL function to build JCL for IMS database and log recovery utilities
- Use and maintain DBRC log dataset information
- Register full function, Fast Path DEDB, and HALDB databases in order to manage recovery and to protect against invalid use of them
- Describe the authorization process and its function in protecting database integrity
- Describe the interaction between IMS database utilities and DBRC
- Use and maintain DBRC’s information about database reorganizations, image copies, change accumulations, recoveries and batch backouts
- Understand, use, and maintain the information in your installation’s RECON
Prerequisites
A working knowledge of TSO/ISPF, z/OS JCL, VSAM AMS, and an understanding IMS database utilities and IMS online logging.