Extended Functions overview

IMS Database Recovery Facility Extended Functions is used at both local and disaster recovery sites for identifying problems that affect can database recovery.

At the disaster recovery site, the functions also assist you in ensuring that all of the required resources are present and help you prepare the RECON data sets to perform recoveries.

Extended Functions inspects information that is stored in the RECON data sets, system catalogs, and in the repositories of IMS Tools Knowledge Base.

Extended Functions detects problems that can affect database recovery. This tool provides you the ability to create clean recovery points across multiple IMS systems and to perform synchronized log switches.

Extended Functions also offers features to determine valid database recovery points, makes sure that all of the resources that are necessary to perform a recovery are present, and provides you the ability to manage the RECON data sets to ensure that the data sets match the disaster recovery environment.