IMS Recovery Expert documentation (October 2025)
Welcome to the IBM® IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS® IMS Recovery Expert documentation, where you can find information about IMS Recovery Expert. IMS Recovery Expert provides a fast and easy-to-use implementation of an IMS system backup and recovery methodology.
Getting started
Common tasks
- Using the IMS Recovery Expert ISPF Interface
- Collecting and analyzing data with the System Setup facility
- Creating and maintaining System Level Backup profiles
- Creating a System Level Backup
- Recovery using application operations
- Recovering Db2 and IMS applications
- Performing a Combined System Level Backup
- Restoring an IMS system
- Creating image copies from System Level Backups
- Recovering an IMS system using the IMS Recovery Expert disaster recovery feature
- Running a Health Check