-RECOVER BSDS command (Db2)

The -RECOVER BSDS command reestablishes dual bootstrap data sets (BSDS) after one has been disabled by a data set error.

Follow these steps to reestablish dual BSDS mode:
  1. Use access method services to rename or delete the failing BSDS, which the Db2 system has deallocated, and define a new BSDS with the same name as the failing BSDS. You can find control statements in job DSNTIJIN.
  2. Issue the Db2 command RECOVER BSDS to make a copy of the remaining BSDS in the newly allocated data set and to reestablish dual BSDS mode.

Abbreviation: -REC BSDS

Environment for -RECOVER BSDS

This command can be issued from a z/OS® console, a DSN session, a DB2I panel (DB2 COMMANDS), an IMS or CICS® terminal, or a program using the instrumentation facility interface (IFI).

Data sharing scope: Member

Authorization for -RECOVER BSDS

To execute this command, you must use a privilege set of the process that includes one of the following privileges or authorities:
  • BSDS privilege
  • SYSCTRL authority
  • SYSADM authority

Db2 commands that are issued from a logged-on z/OS console or TSO SDSF can be checked by Db2 authorization using primary and secondary authorization IDs. Start of changeA logged-on z/OS user ID must be defined in RACF or a similar security server.End of change

Syntax for -RECOVER BSDS

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Example for -RECOVER BSDS

Reestablish dual BSDS mode. 
-RECOVER BSDS