An Introduction to IMS: Your Complete Guide to IBMs Information Management System

DBRC automatically performs the following tasks:

• Records and manages information about logs for IMS

• Records recovery information in the RECON data set

• Verifies that database utilities have the correct input

• Controls the recovery of databases that are registered with DBRC

• Controls the access authorization information for the control and serialization of shared databases

You can perform the following tasks and more when you initiate them by passing commands or requests to DBRC:

• Start or stop the DBRC application programming interface (API)

• Record recovery information in the RECON data set

• Generate JCL for various IMS utilities and generate user-defined output

• List general information in the RECON data set

• Gather specific information from the RECON data set