How to report recovery information

You can use the REPORT utility when you plan for recovery.

The REPORT utility provides information necessary for recovering a page set. The REPORT utility displays:

• Recovery information from the SYSIBM.SYSCOPY catalog table
• Log ranges of the table space from the SYSIBM.SYSLGRNX directory
• Archive log data sets from the bootstrap data set
• The names of all members of a table space set
• Recovery information about system-level backup copies retrieved from the bootstrap data sets of each member in the data sharing group

You can also use the REPORT utility to obtain recovery information about the catalog and directory.

Use the output from the DFSMShsm LIST COPYPOOL command with the ALLVOLS option, in conjunction with the Db2 system-level backup information in the PRINT LOG MAP (DSNJU004) utility output, to determine whether the system-level backups of your database copy pool still reside on DASD or if they have been dumped to tape. For a data sharing system, you should run the print log map utility with the MEMBER * option to obtain system-level backup information from all members.