Create a Consistent Historical Db2 Copy with BCV5 Without Disrupting Production

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Auditors, investigators, or application teams often ask: “What exactly did the data look like at that point in time?” This creates a hard problem for DBAs. Image copies of related Db2 objects were taken at different times. Production must stay available. Yet the resulting copy still needs to be transactionally consistent.

In this webinar, we’ll show how BCV5 creates a consistent point-in-time copy from image copies that aren’t mutually consistent. This is especially valuable for audit requests, forensic analysis, post-mortem debugging, corruption investigations, and production incident reviews. Teams get a reliable historical view without disturbing the original source environment.

BCV5 also simplifies the operational process. Selection rules define which Db2 objects should participate. There’s no need to pair every object manually or build a complex one-off recovery workflow. BCV5 automates the rest: object identification, naming and mapping, workflow preparation, log-based inflight processing, and target-environment creation.

BCV5 is also a fast alternative to resource-intensive UNLOAD/LOAD processes. Its automated copy workflows can reduce CPU consumption and elapsed time by more than 90%.

Attendees will learn:

• Why image copies taken at different times create a consistency problem
• Why Db2 redirected recovery has too many limitations to be useful
• How BCV5 uses inflight log processing to create a consistent target
• How BCV5 automates the process and helps DBAs deliver trustworthy historical answers faster

This session is intended for Db2 for z/OS DBAs, infrastructure teams, auditors, and incident-response stakeholders who need fast, repeatable, and non-disruptive access to consistent historical copies of critical Db2 data.

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