IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS

Get high-speed database copy to rapidly back up and recover database data sets with IMS High Performance Image Copy. The tool can automatically take the database offline before making a batch image copy and restarting it after the process. The number of tapes used is reduced by stacking more than one image copy on the same tape. Image backups can be taken automatically during database reorganizations, enabling the use of databases immediately after they are reorganized.

Get help validating, comparing, mapping, recovering, reporting and regenerating many IMS resources needed for operations. Ensures that the ACB (Application Control Block), DBD (Database Description), PSB (Program Specification Block) and MFS (Message Format Service) libraries are consistent and have full integrity.

Enhance the integrity and availability of your VSAM- and OSAM-organized IMS databases by making repairs quickly. The interactive capabilities of IMS Database Repair Facility help you make pointer or data error repairs in a short time, which means that the affected database only needs to be taken offline for a brief period.

Improve processing efficiency and greatly reduce the time and resources needed for management tasks using the integrated tool functions. IMS Fast Path Advanced Tool provides concurrent unload, reload, reorganization, restructure, analysis DMAC print, and extract of multiple DEDB areas without impacting all areas of a database, all in a single step.

Enhance how you manage and maintain the performance of your IMS DEDBs with the IMS Fast Path Online Tools, including an Online Pointer Checker, Online Data Extract, Online Area Extender, Online Expert Reorganization and Online DMAC print utilities. These tasks can be performed without having to take the IMS database offline.

Analyze, maintain, tune and migrate DEDBs without bringing up an IMS online system environment. These powerful tools — including DEDB Pointer Checker, DEDB Tuning Aid, and DEDB Unload/Reload — offer numerous utilities and functions such as database integrity verification, as well as summary and detail analysis reports to improve database management, maintenance, and performance tuning.

Facilitate reorganization and area extension tasks for online IMS DEDBs. This utility provides advanced functions that help IMS database administrators manage the space utilization of DEDB areas without taking DEDB areas offline.

Change DBD descriptions, randomizing module, and segment edit/compression routines without taking DEDB areas offline. A single /DBR command outage is necessary to switch the area data sets.

Supplementary utilities of IMS High Performance Fast Path Utilities provide many functions to help you manage IMS Fast Path databases more efficiently. For example, capability to run Hash Check against the DEDB while IMS High Performance Image Copy creates copies of the DEDB, a reporting tool that reports trends in SDEP space utilization, and more.

Database Sensor collects statistics about DEDBs and stores them as sensor data in the Sensor Data repository of IMS Tools Knowledge Base. Sensor data can be used for monitoring and maintaining the health, performance, and recoverability of the database. Database Sensor can be run as a stand-alone job, or can be called within the following utility jobs: - IMS Fast Path Advanced Tool - IMS Fast Path Online Tools - Online Space Management utility - IMS High Performance Image Copy