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IBM Db2 Recovery Expert Pro for z/OS 1.1 - Recover smarter, faster with cyber resiliency

By Chris Pomasl posted yesterday

  

By: Christopher J Pomasl and Madhavi Amirneni 

In today’s data-driven world, cyberattacks, data corruption, and operational failures can jeopardize business continuity within minutes. Enterprises face unprecedented pressure to maintain data integrity while responding to an evolving threat landscape. Manual recovery of complex Db2 systems consumes time and resources when time is critical and traditional recovery solutions, though reliable in the past, often fall short in a hybrid cloud and cyber-resilient world. Modern regulation can even mandate that your data always be kept safe and recoverable, even within a specific time window.  

IBM Db2 Recovery Expert Pro for z/OS 1.1 will be the Db2 recovery solution of the future, built on the proven foundation of IBM Db2 Recovery Expert. This next-generation release introduces point-in-time recovery by integrating with IBM Z Cyber Vault, empowering organizations to recover with confidence, speed, and minimal disruption. Db2 Recovery Expert Pro allows you to recover in the traditional sense of Db2 recovery, from image copy and log records. It introduces a cyber-resilient architecture that bridges the gap between traditional system backups from Cyber Vault and modern recovery point objective demands of your critical Db2 systems. By integrating directly with Cyber Vault, it ensures data immutability, integrity, and availability even in the face of sophisticated attacks. 

Db2 Recovery Expert Pro is a strategic resilience enabler that uses advanced automation, immutable data protection, and hybrid cloud integration to minimize downtime, and recover faster. Here are key capabilities of Db2 Recovery Expert Pro: 

 

  • IBM Z Cyber Vault Integration: Seamlessly integrates with Cyber Vault to create and maintain immutable, isolated snapshots of Db2 environments.  

  • Immutable Data Safeguarding: IBM Db2 Recovery Expert Pro continuously captures interim log data and image copies to ensure that between scheduled Cyber Vault snapshots, your most recent transactions are safely preserved. The interim data can be stored on cloud storage using IBM Cloud Tape Connector.   

  • Intelligent Recovery Orchestration: The solution’s policy-driven orchestration engine automates complex recovery tasks minimizing manual intervention.  Analytics and real-time progress monitoring ensures accurate, consistent recovery workflows aligned with business continuity priorities. 

  • Flexible Recovery:  User can group application profiles to recover them in a prioritized order, restore dropped objects without advanced preparations, test recovery scenarios without impacting production, or distribute recovery workload across data sharing members. 

  • Transaction-Level Undo: Enables fine-grained recovery by allowing users to selectively reverse unwanted transactions without performing a full database rollback for correcting application-level or user-introduced errors in real time. 

  • System-level Backups:  Run backup, restore, and offload across multiple supported hardware types.  Perform granular object recovery or create new image copies from existing backups. 

 

As data threats evolve, IBM Db2 Recovery Expert Pro empowers organizations to stay one step ahead. With every recovery, Db2 Recovery Expert Pro helps you restore critical systems with precision, speed, and confidence while reinforcing reliability, and strengthening resilience - whether you're responding to operational errors or cyber threats. 

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