Overview of IMS Fast Path Basic Tools
IBM® IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS® IMS High Performance Fast Path Utilities IMS Fast Path Basic Tools (also referred to as IMS Fast Path Basic Tools or FPB) can help you analyze, maintain, tune and migrate DEDBs without bringing up an IMS online system environment. These powerful tools, which offer numerous utilities and functions, are DEDB Pointer Checker, DEDB Tuning Aid, and DEDB Unload/Reload.
- DEDB Pointer Checker
- Provides a fast and efficient mechanism for verifying the integrity of all IMS pointer values, free space element chains, VSAM control fields, and space management in IMS DEDBs. DEDB Pointer Checker provides the comprehensive analysis information that is required to effectively manage the space utilization, performance characteristics, and physical attributes of an IMS DEDBs.
- DEDB Tuning Aid
- An extension of DEDB Pointer Checker. This feature enables you to evaluate the DEDB definition in reorganization, or to reduce the impact of changes to an existing DEDB, without consuming time to unload and reload the database.
- DEDB Unload and Reload
- A set of high-performance utilities for efficient Unload and Reload process, or to reorganize IMS DEDBs.
IMS High Performance Fast Path Utilities provides many other tools and functions. For an overview of other IMS High Performance Fast Path Utilities tools and functions, see the topic "IMS HP Fast Path Utilities features and benefits" in the IMS Fast Path Solution Pack: IMS High Performance Fast Path Utilities User's Guide.