Support offline database reorganizations and manage full-function IMS databases and HALDBs
Keep databases tuned and operational
IBM IMS Database Utility Solution for z/OS® enables you to reorganize IMS full-function and High Availability Large Databases (HALDBs). It integrates various IMS utilities and offers features to help keep databases tuned and operational.
This solution pack helps reduce operational complexity and the impact of database reorganization on system resources. Integration with IBM Management Console for IMS and Db2® for z/OS provide a web interface for database administrator tasks.
Utilize high-performance utilities to unload, load, index build, reorganize, backup, and report on your IMS full function and HALDB databases.
Extend the capabilities of the Management Console by using a simpler web interface that provides detailed insight into your IMS full-function and HALDB databases.
Run load, unload, index building, and image copy tasks as a single step to improve efficiency of database reorganizations. Deliver fast backup of your data sets using advanced copy technology.
Use intelligent reorganization tools that will only reorganize your database when it needs it, reducing system resource utilization by eliminating unnecessary reorganizations.
Tools included
Automate the complex database diagnosis tasks needed to monitor database health and run reorganization jobs.
Unload IMS databases faster and with less system resource utilization with IMS High Performance Unload for z/OS.
Improve performance for higher availability with high-speed loading of IMS databases.
Improve the management and operation of the IMS High Availability Large Database (HALDB) environment.
Utilize an easy-to-use front end, one-step procedure for building all IMS indexes, avoiding the need to image copy index data sets.
Get high-speed database copy to rapidly back up and recover database data sets with IMS High Performance Image Copy.
Monitor space utilization to detect and get reports on physical or logical direct pointer problems.
Get help validating, comparing, mapping, recovering, reporting and regenerating many IMS resources needed for operations.