IBM’s Tuesday announcement was back to normal yesterday with a mass of products, but most were things like minor additions and withdrawals from marketing in the retail systems line, and US third party vertical market software. Of note is a new Remote Recovery Data Facility Program Offering for IMS/ESA users, enabling them to transport log data and pertinent Data Base Recovery Control information in real time mode, to a remote site, so that the latter can recover the database if there is an extended crash at the primary site. It supports remote logging of on-line and batch transactions against IMS/ESA Full Function and Fast Path databases, using the IMS/ESA Transaction Manager or CICS/ESA with the Database Control subsystem. It is being developed by E-Net of Greenbrae, California to IBM specs to be marketed exclusively by IBM. Two licences are required, for the primary site and for the remote site. To be available in December 1990, it will cost $49,000 and $11,000 a year – at each site, presumably.
