Features and benefits
IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS provides extensive and easy-to-use utilities that include all the functions a database administrator needs to analyze, maintain, and tune IMS Fast Path databases. It provides all features and functions necessary to implement ‘best practices’ for managing an IMS Fast Path environment.
IMS Fast Path Solution Pack is enhanced to complement and exploit the Autonomics Director, a component of IBM Tools Base for z/OS. With Autonomics Director, IMS Fast Path Solution Pack implements the automation of tools execution using detailed understanding of the current state of DEDBs. Autonomics Director provides much needed automation of ongoing IMS database monitoring and maintenance tasks.
The IMS Fast Path Solution Pack is composed of the following utilities.
IMS Fast Path Basic Tools - Provides high performance utilities for the efficient load, unload, and tuning of Fast Path databases. Provides an efficient mechanism for verifying database integrity.
IMS Fast Path Advanced Tool – Integrates tool functions, improving processing efficiency and greatly reducing the time and resources needed for operation. Provides for the concurrent unload, reload, reorganization, restructure, analysis DMAC print, and extract of multiple DEDB areas without impacting all areas of a database in a single job step.
IMS Fast Path Online Tools – Consists of an Online Pointer Checker, Online Data Extract, Online Area Extender, Online Expert Reorganization, and Online DMAC print utilities. It provides for operation without having to take the IMS database offline.
IMS Library Integrity Utilities – Provides utilities to validate, compare, map, report and recover IMS.
IMS High Performance Image Copy – Provides fast backup and recovery of database data sets using advanced copy technology.
IMS Database Repair Facility – Provides the capability to locate and fix problem pointers.
Combining these utilities into a total solution provides all the high performance tools needed to manage and maintain IMS Fast Path databases. IMS Library Integrity Utilities and High Performance Image Copy, while included in this solution, will remain orderable as separate products. This package provides a high value offering with a substantial value proposition.
Customer challenges addressed by the product:
| Challenges | Costs | Solutions | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
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DB environment more and more difficult to manage Need 24x7 availability |
Outage and poor performance cause the loss of revenue, poor customer satisfaction, and failure to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs). | Provide end to end management solution that is fast and provides all components need to effectively manage and maintain FP databases | Improved availability |
| DBA skills difficult to acquire and train | Increasing people costs | Reduce technical expertise by providing an integrated - high performance solution | Increased productivity. Expert personnel free for other assignments |
The IBM Tools Base for z/OS is a pre-requisite for the IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS.
