On-Demand Storage Webcasts

Our recorded webcast sessions are jam-packed with best-practices and sure-fire strategies to help you optimize your database administration processes and leverage the capabilites of your DB2 and IMS on z/OS systems.

Automating DB2 Cloning and Refresh Operations

Recorded: July 2011 | Presenter: Reggie Culpepper, Technical Sales Architect for DB2 Products, Rocket Software

Using traditional methods to copy DB2 data can be time consuming, use large amounts of host processing resources and require a separate LPAR to house a system clone. Today’s storage-based fast replication technologies provide services to copy DB2 data instantaneously and without using host CPU or I/O resources.

This session discusses DB2 on z/OS system cloning and table and index space refresh methodologies. View this webcast and learn how:

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Automating IMS Cloning and Refresh Operations

Recorded: June 2011 | Presenter: Kelly Smith, Senior Product Manager, Rocket Software

Many IMS systems and databases are cloned or refreshed periodically to create test and quality assurance environments, to stage data-warehouse loads, to offload business processes from production environments and to offload Pointer Checker utilities. Traditional IMS cloning methods are slow, use large amounts of host processing resources and require a separate LPAR to support the cloned IMS system. Today’s storage-based fast replication facilities allow IMS data to be copied instantaneously and without using host CPU or I/O resources. IMS systems in general, can be cloned in less than 30 minutes.

This webcast describes how Mainstar’s Clone and Rename for IMS (ICR) and Rapid Database Refresh (RDR) automates, simplifies, and speeds up IMS system cloning and database refresh operations. It shows how IMS system cloning and database refresh operations can be performed fast and effectively using automation that integrates storage-based fast-replication facilities from IBM, EMC, and Hitachi storage systems. The combined use of ICR and RDR promote application and data availability while reducing administration and processing costs.

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Automated and Simplified IMS and DB2 Disaster Recovery

Recorded: May 2011 | Presenter: Ron Haupert, Senior Technologist, Rocket Software

This session describes how storage-aware data management tools can simplify and improve DB2 and IMS disaster recovery operations. Storage-aware backup and recovery products create DBMS restartable images that can be used at a DR site to perform disaster restart or to perform DBMS system recovery. This session explains how DB2 and IMS system level backups are created non-disruptively and shows how they can be used to simplify and automate local and remote disaster restart and disaster recovery procedures while reducing recovery time objectives (RTO). Additionally, this session explores how a system level backup methodology implementation combined with virtual tape replication solutions can reduce recovery point objectives (RPO) and provide a cost effective tertiary DR solution.

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Simplify IMS and DB2 Database Administration by Leveraging Your Storage System

Recorded: April 2011 | Presenter: Ron Haupert, Senior Technologist, Rocket Software

The session describes storage-aware data management tools for IMS and DB2. These tools integrate storage-based fast-replication facilities with IMS and DB2 systems to provide fast and non-disruptive IMS backup and cloning solutions. Storage-aware data management tools significantly improve IMS and DB2 backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and cloning solutions by using storage-based fast-replication facilities to copy data; saving time and host CPU and I/O resources . The session explores how storage-based fast-replication facilities offered by IBM, EMC and Hitachi storage systems can be used to backup, recover, clone and refresh IMS and DB2 systems.

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Implementing an IMS System Backup Methodology

Recorded: August 2009 | Presenter: Ron Haupert, Senior Technologist, Rocket Software

This webcast discusses IMS system backup methodologies and how storage-based fast-replication is fundamental to implementing these backup and recovery solutions. It describes system backup characteristics, requirements, uses, and advantages for IMS.

Mainstar’s Backup and Recovery for IMS (DBR for IMS) product is described to show how it implements an IMS system backup methodology that support IBM, EMC and Hitachi storage systems. The webcast explores how the type of storage-based fast-replication used for a system backup can affect backup frequency, backup uses, recovery speed, and storage utilization.

This webcast details how a DBR for IMS generated system level backup can be used to speed up and simplify IMS system, database, application, and disaster recovery processes.

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Implementing a DB2 System Backup Methodology

Recorded: June 2009 | Presenter: Ron Haupert, Senior Technologist, Rocket Software

DB2 on z/OS system backup methodologies and storage-based fast-replication are fundamental components of effective backup and recovery implementations. This presentation explores the type of storage-based fast-replication used for a system backup and its affect on backup frequency, backup uses, recovery speed, and storage utilization.

This webcast highlights Mainstar’s Backup and Recovery for DB2 (DBR for DB2) product and how it can help you implement a DB2 system backup methodology that support IBM, EMC and Hitachi storage systems.

View this session to learn how you can leverage a DBR for DB2 generated system level backup to speed up and simplify your DB2 object, application, system, and disaster recovery processes.

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Rocket Software (www.rocketsoftware.com) is a global software development firm that builds enterprise products and delivers enterprise solutions in the following segments: Business Intelligence and Analytics; Storage, Networks, and Compliance; Application Development, Integration, and Modernization; and Database Servers and Tools.

Rocket Mainstar delivers business-critical products and data-management solutions in the IBM System z arena, including solutions for catalog and system management, local and disaster recovery, HSM and storage management, and Linux on System z. The group has deep expertise in storage, catalogs, HSM, backup, recovery, and databases for large system installations.