Restoring an IMS system

IMS Recovery Expert allows you to successfully restore an IMS system that has been backed up by IMS Recovery Expert.

Before you restore the system
IMS Recovery Expert maintains a list of valid system restore points from which you can choose in the event you need to restore a system.
Viewing a list of backups
IMS Recovery Expert only lists valid backups. If a backup failed and cannot be used to restore the system, it will not be displayed on the System Level Backup Display panel.
Restoring a system: Data only
If both data and logs were backed up, you can choose to restore only the data. If the backup was configured for data only, you can only restore the data.
Restoring a system: Data and logs
You can restore data and logs if both data and logs were successfully backed up. If the backup specified data only, but IMS Recovery Expert detected mixed data when the backup job was run, you must restore both data and logs.
Selecting a recovery timestamp
Choose your recovery point from a list of timestamps.
Restarting a failed restore job
If a job fails while restoring an IMS system from tape, you might be able to restart the restore job using a RESTART parameter. This parameter allows IMS Recovery Expert to bypass restoring volumes from tape that were successfully restored in the previous job.
Reviewing restore reports
IMS Recovery Expert produces several different reports when a system is restored.