RPID usage examples

Use the Recovery Point Identification function (RPID) to identify valid recovery time spans that occur between specified time spans for a single or group of databases.

You can use the RPID function to identify common recovery time spans for the following database types:

A single database that is not associated with or related to any other database
A group of databases that logically belong together (for example, a CAGRP, a RECOVGRP, or other DB groupings)

Example of identifying valid recovery times

To identify valid recovery time spans that occurred between 21.291 06:30:01.1 and 21.291 11:30:01.1 for one HDAM database and one HIDAM database with a secondary index and an external logical, you would specify these control cards:

   DBLIST ( DB(HDAM1 HIDAMDB1 HIDAMIX PRIMESX EXTLOGDB) ) 
   RPID   ( RANGE (‘21.291 06:30:01.1',‘21:291 11:30:01.1') )

In this example, RPID determines a separate recovery time span for each database that you specified in the DBLIST. This recovery time span is the time frame in which a database was not allocated during the specified range. RPID also determines recovery time spans that are common to all of the databases in the DBLIST. This time frame is a period during which all of the databases were not allocated at the same time during the specified range.