Recovery of partition-by-growth table spaces

The RECOVER utility supports both table space-level and partition-level recovery on a partition-by-growth table space.

If an image copy was made on the partition level, the table space can only be recovered at the partition level. A violation of this rule causes message DSNU512I to be issued.

Because the number of partitions is defined on demand, the total number of partitions in an image copy may not be consistent with the number of partitions that reside in the current table space. In such a case, when recovering the table space back to a point in time with an image copy that has less partitions, the excess partitions in the table space will be empty because the recover process has reset the partitions.