IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery V2.2 for z/OS

Highlights of IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS, V2.2:

• Users of IBM Tivoli Monitoring can: view backup information at a glance; initiate backup and recovery functions from a single GUI by leveraging Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP)
• DB2 database image copies can be tracked to help ensure they are synchronized with related datasets used in composite applications.
• Users of distributed platform backup and replication tools, such as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, can use extended capabilities of IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON Dashboard Edition to help create a consolidated view of backup status across platforms.

Three main components of IBM Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS enable it to perform and track backups
 
IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS, V2.2 helps maintain a resilient z/OS environment in which complex z/OS applications can be restored quickly from either local outages or disaster situations. It monitors applications automatically, determines the critical datasets that applications use, and helps ensure the applications are backed up when and where they should be.

Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS, V2.2 delivers the control and visibility that may be needed to help manage critical z/OS backup and recovery activity.

It is designed to:

• Deliver powerful function for fast, reliable, and accurate backups
• Help identify data that is not backed up, whether by omission or due to system problems
• Provide alerts so corrective action can be taken

In addition, Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS, V2.2 can help reduce costs associated with remote Direct Access Storage Device (DASD) replication by helping to identify critical data for replication, providing a localized backup for recovery, and helping to eliminate duplicate backups. Automated, centralized tracking of z/OS backups, including DB2 image copies, can enable quick recovery, ranging from local outages to recovering the z/OS environment offsite. This can help to save crucial time and money and to eliminate error-prone manual processes.

Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS, V2.2 offers flexibility and choice to automate manual, time-consuming tasks by helping to identify critical data assets, automate the backup of those assets, and provide a centralized inventory of backups. These features can help users quickly recover from local, unplanned outages or recover their z/OS environment offsite, and thereby assist in saving crucial time and money.

Enhancements
to Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS, V2.2:

• The Automated Critical Data Identification (ACDI) component delivers: improved integration of its Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) panels and functions; enhanced support for the Critical Backup/Tracking (CBTI) backup end function
• The CBTI component delivers improvements to its backup end process, which includes being functionally linked to ACDI application attributes and reporting enhancements.
• Tape Management System metadata support is provided for RMM and CA-1, in which user tape dataset space information is recorded and used by Aggregate Backup and Recovery (ABARS) Manager and Aggregate LoadBalancer.
• Tape location (OUTCODE) support is provided by the ABARS Manager Tape Pull List report and the CBTI Tape Pull List report.
• Aggregate LoadBalancer is improved by delivering: the capability to include using the user tape dataset size in distribution calculation; functional and reporting enhancements
• Online message presentation is improved to provide: support for searching by message ID mask: a standardized message format
• The Health Check utility is improved to help: validate ABARS Manager inventory record structure; reconcile ABARS Manager and cataloged backup inventories

Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS, V2.2 has three key components, each of which adds value to the backup and recovery process: ACDI, ABARS Manager, and CBTI.