IBM IMS High Performance Pointer Checker for z/OS, 3.1

The IBM® IMS High Performance Pointer Checker for z/OS®:

• Enables you to analyze corrupt databases quickly and reduce the amount of time spent to diagnose and repair them.
• Generates reports that facilitate system tuning, report space utilization, and detect and report problems in primary and secondary indexes.
• Provides the ability to set several new thresholds, including available extents, CA and CI splits, and database and data set last extents.
• Provides significant improvements in performance to full checking capabilities: improved usability with simplified setup and operation; parallel processing of databases; and improved reporting.
• Provide ease of use and fast, easy detection of database status.
• Interactively and in batch mode repairs VSAM- and OSAM-organized IMS databases that contain pointer or data errors.
• Performs repairs quickly, thereby reducing the amount of time that the affected database is taken offline.
• Features VSAM and OSAM pointer repair, pointer navigation, a backout safety feature, and an ISPF front end.
• Runs in interactive mode, in which you can view entire blocks of data or individual IMS segments and you can navigate to other segments. Any changes made are tracked and can be undone.
• Runs in batch mode, in which you can dump blocks from the data set or submit changes to the block data.
• Integrates with IMS Database Reorganization Expert and IMS High Performance Image Copy.

Program number: 5655-U09