Scenarios: Managing IMS Fast Path databases

Typical scenarios demonstrate how IMS Fast Path Solution Pack can help you manage your IMS Fast Path environment.

Monitor database space utilization
IMS Fast Path Solution Pack, along with IMS Tools Base components, provides space monitoring solutions.
Prevent application performance degradation and attain better free space usage
As records in a DEDB area are added, updated, and deleted, free space can be fragmented or segments in a database record can be stored across a large number of separate CIs. Fragmentation of free space and scattered segments can cause the performance of applications to suffer. When available space is used up, new segments cannot be added.
Verify the integrity of all IMS pointer values and analyze the space utilization of the database
IMS Fast Path Solution Pack helps you efficiently manage many database maintenance activities. Using IMS Fast Path Solution Pack on daily or weekly basis helps ensure that your database pointers are error free by alerting you when a database needs to be reorganized.
Backup databases
Using image copies to create backup data is essential to the timely recovery of databases after a loss of data or a programming mistake. However, taking data offline can reduce user productivity and negatively impact your business.
Manage IMS ACB/DBD/PSB/MFS libraries, RECON data sets, and IMS catalog
Database administration and change management are the core responsibilities of DBAs. If not managed correctly, they can monopolize data center resources, waste valuable time, and can result in the generation of unwanted errors.
Store tool reports in a central repository for better search
DBAs use many utilities to maintain the health of their databases. But how do they manage the reports that were generated by these utilities? Through their daily database maintenance tasks, various types of reports might be generated and accumulated. Managing and searching these accumulated reports can be cumbersome.
Automate sensory data collection and exception detection
Typically, identifying opportunities for tuning DEDB areas requires highly skilled DBA expertise that involves analyzing detailed analysis reports, identifying exceptional states of the areas, and determining the best approach to recover the areas in a good condition.
Aggregate information about database resources on a graphical user interface
Analyzing the figures in analysis reports and identifying the state of DEDB areas can be a complicated task that requires a tremendous amount of a DBA's time and effort.