IMS Cloning Tool for z/OS

Clone complete IMS subsystems or select databases

• Uses fast replication and other data copy processes to refresh existing test environments or create new test environments quickly.
• Uses storage-aware technology to copy the IMS system and its data. This provides very fast replication, helping to reduce copy time and minimize outages.
• Helps save host CPU and I/O resources by offloading the copy process from the host to the storage processor.
• Contains many system managed storage (SMS) options to comply with storage configurations and standards.
• Provides data security anonymity through advanced data masking.
• Updates database recovery control (DBRC), including support for high availability large databases (HALDB).

Simplify cloning management

• Includes a task-oriented ISPF user interface and help features. The interface can be integrated with the IBM DB2 Cloning Tool to provide one interface to both products.
• Reduces the requirement for individual volume specification.
• Helps simplify database selection by finding all data set names from databases and their related databases.
• Allows IMS databases to be copied within the same subsystem or to a different subsystem.
• Provides extended target rename capability, which allows users to change, add or delete any qualifier.
• Automates the creation of target database definitions if they do not exist on the target system.
• Creates consistent copies of databases by applying logs when fuzzy copy is used.
• Automates the deletion of previously refreshed target IMS database data sets.

Increase productivity and reduce errors

• Helps reduce manual effort and coding by automating and simplifying the cloning process.
• Helps improve performance by offloading read-only access users to an IMS clone.
• Provides transactionally consistent copies, helping to give users uninterrupted access to applications.
• Validates that all data required for the clone is included.
• Updates the appropriate target IMS control data sets, reducing the need for a lengthy manual cloning process.
• Automates the cleanup of previously refreshed target IMS data sets.
• Performs compatibility checking between the source and target databases.
• Helps reduce elapsed time and number of cloning steps by removing the requirement to rebuild indexes.