Safeguard your business data by optimizing backup and recovery
- Institute more consistent, flexible backups of your critical DASD environments, so you can better ensure data availability—even in the event of failures
- Establish robust reporting that helps staff operate more efficiently and collaborate more effectively
- Provide teams with the visibility they need to spot and preempt potential issues before they have an impact on users or the business
- Gain the insights you need to proactively manage usage and performance of your storage environments
Key capabilities
FDR: Backup and recovery
- Full-volume and dataset backups and restores
- Restore datasets in their entirety or selectively by data set name or VSAM cluster
- Print contents of DASD data tracks including physical layout of each track, physical record, and key field
- Create Stand Alone Restore (SAR), an IPL-able program to restore FDR full-volume backups when an operating system is unavailable
- Use the SAR to setup a new data center by restoring backups of volumes prepared at another site
FDRABR: Backup, restore, and disaster recovery
- Automates the execution of FDR full-volume and data set backups and restores
- A powerful suite of flexible and high-performance z/OS DASD backup and recovery tools
- Suite includes capabilities for managing volume and incremental backup, application backup, data archive, migration, and space management
- FDRABR also includes FDREPORT for storage management reporting
FDREPORT: DASD management reporting
- Draws information from a multitude of sources to produce customized reports on storage-related information
- Contains a set of pre-defined health-check reports that provide a snapshot of critical mainframe storage statistics
- Reports can be tailored to Storage Administrators, Operations Support, Data Analysts, Data Security and Audit Specialists
- Information is viewable in z/OS Batch reports, TSO/ISPF displays and on GUI with FDRWEB
FDRWEB: Intuitive, web-based reporting
- Interactive, browser-based application that provides users with z/OS storage management system insight
- Leverages an easy to use GUI for gathering data from multiple sources including FDREPORT
- Runs as a standalone task using the IBM JAVA Virtual Machine under UNIX System Services
- Produce reports in several formats including a CSV Report importable into a spreadsheet