Manage IMS ACB/DBD/PSB/MFS libraries, RECON data sets, and IMS catalog

In managing the database administration and change management process, DBAs are faced with many challenges like how do I:

• Ensure that I complete all of the necessary steps when making a change?
• Manage and track the changes to the definitions of my database objects?
• Propagate changes to other database environments quickly?
• Prevent accidental misuse in production?

The answers to these questions are provided by IMS Library Integrity Utilities. This tool helps you by providing the features and functions that enable you to manage your ACB libraries, DBD libraries, PSB libraries, MFS libraries, libraries containing DFSMDA members, IMS catalog, IMS directory, and RECON data sets. These features and functions include:

• The IMS Advanced ACB Generator utility, which contains additional features and functions to help you manage your IMS ACB libraries more effectively and provides a high-speed generation process.
• The Consistency Checker utility, which helps you ensure that the necessary definitions in your IMS subsystem have been created.
• The Integrity Checker utility, which protects your databases from corruption caused by using the wrong IMS control blocks for access.
• The Multiple Resource Checker utility, which helps you identify the resources that contain different definitions across multiple sets of RECON data sets or DBDLIBs, PSBLIBs, and ACBLIBs.
• The Catalog Manager utility, which helps you ensure that the DBDs and PSBs in the IMS catalog are maintained correctly by validating the consistency of DBDs and PSBs in the ACB libraries with those in the IMS catalog.
• The MDA Reversal utility, which converts DFSMDA members back into DFSMDA macros and generates a report that contains a list of DFSMDA members.