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Database Backup and Recovery for DB2 on z/OS: Version 2.2 New Features

With Database Backup & Recovery for DB2, you can increase application availability and ensure resiliency with reliable subsystem backups and point-in-time recovery. New features for v2.2 help make your DB2 system backups easier and more versatile than ever.

• Create image copies from system backups, eliminating contention on production objects.
• The automapping feature (available for FlashCopy, Snap, and DFSMSdss backups) allows you to enter a range of target units or list of SMS storage groups; DBR will do the source-to-target mapping for you.
• As part of a system restore, DBR can identify objects that will be left in pending states and can automatically generate the JCL required to recover or rebuild them.
• DBR can ensure that system backups already made are valid for a recovery to a specific point in time. You can request a "health check" on a system backup, and DBR will determine whether recovery will be successful given that PIT. If image copies have been moved or a utility has been run on an object that makes recovery impossible, DBR can tell you which objects cannot be recovered and why.
• Additional hardware supported includes Hitachi ShadowImage fast replication, EMC virtual devices, and any hardware vendor that supports DFSMSdss fast replication.
• DBR V2.2 can make system backups without using fast replication hardware via DFSMSdss.
• In object profiles, you can include all objects related to a table space index space via referential integrity by simply setting a flag, eliminating the need to select each object individually.
• Support has been added for incremental FlashCopy.
• Extra data protection can be implemented by encrypting the data during the data offload. DBR supports encryption mechanisms for both DFSMSdss and FDR offloads.

For More Information
Americas and Asia Pacific, contact:
Doug Bryan, Mainstar VP Sales & Business Area Executive
Phone: +1-425-968-9025
E-mail: doug.bryan@rs.com

Europe, Middle East and Africa, contact:
John Procter, EMEA Sales Manager
Phone: +44 1926 482 570
E-mail: john.procter@rs.com