Integration with other IMS tools

IMS HP Image Copy is included in IMS Database Solution Pack, IMS Database Utility Solution, IMS Fast Path Solution Pack, and IMS Recovery Solution Pack. IMS HP Image Copy integrates with IMS tools that are included in these packs, and together they facilitate database reorganization and recovery tasks.

Your reorganization or recovery jobs can automatically start the image copy process of IMS HP Image Copy. The image copy process is run in the same job step as the reorganization or recovery process, and it optionally registers generated image copies to the DBRC RECON data sets. Therefore, you can start using your database immediately after the database is reorganized or recovered.

If you use IMS HP Image Copy with the tools included in IMS Recovery Solution Pack, you can generate new incremental image copy data sets by applying database updates from a log data set or a change accumulation data set to existing image copy data. By using these tools and processes, you can create a new image copy without needing to access the database.

The following figure shows how IMS HP Image Copy integrates with other IMS tools.

This figure depicts how IMS HP Image Copy integrates with tools in IMS solution packs.

Restriction: IMS HP Image Copy reports that are generated in IMS Database Recovery Facility jobs cannot be stored in the IMS Tools Knowledge Base repository.