Camberley, Surrey-based BMC Software Ltd has released database recovery tools for IBM Corp’s DB2 database. R+/Resource Maximizer enables users to make data changes within DB2 databases without the need to rebuild those databases. A DB2 database recognises data changes on its own system but will not recognise those same changes on another DB2 database although associated image copies and log are still available. R+/Resource Maximizer recovers the data by translating the changed data into a format that can be read by other DB2 databases. The Maximixer works with BMC’s Recover Plus, which the company says, provides a faster DB2 recovery utility than the existing utility native within DB2. The company is also working on an application restart control for VSAM. BMC says the product will takes check points at regular intervals when changes are being made to the database. Therefore, when the system goes down, the database will automatically restart at the last check point rather than going back to the beginning of the programme. BMC has also released Recovery Manager for DB2 and IMS with versions for Oracle and Sybase due out this year. The company also plans to release a Co-ordination Manager, a Recovery Manager than will back up and restore data from multiple types of relational databases concurrently, by the end of 1995.
