Recovery utilities and services

IMS has a number of utilities and services to help you recover and maintain a recoverable system.

These utilities and services are:

• Database-related utilities: Use these utilities to make image copies of your databases, to accumulate and sort records of database changes, to speed up recovery, and to recover databases.
• System-related utilities: Use these utilities to help you manage the system by managing and recovering the log data sets or generating analysis reports.
• Transaction-Manager-related utilities: Use these utilities to help you manage and control your transactions.

IBM® also offers a number of IMS productivity tools that can enhance your IMS environment. These tools can help you automate and speed up your IMS utility operations. They can also assist you in analyzing, managing, recovering, and repairing your IMS databases. You can learn more about these tools on the web at IMS Tools.