Mainstar Catalog RecoveryPlus
It's all about data access
Because ICF catalogs are the key control structures that provide access to IBM® z/OS® data, ensuring the integrity and availability of ICF catalogs is critically important. Rocket Mainstar Catalog RecoveryPlus (CR+) provides the powerful features you need for easy, effective ICF catalog management and safe, reliable backup and recovery.
Application downtime can cost millions of dollars an hour - or more. CR+ dramatically reduces the financial impact of catalog outages by reducing the risk of failure, increasing the speed of recovery, and improving productivity through ease of use and enhanced functionality.
CR+ provides ICF catalog backup and forward recovery capability, diagnosis and repair facilities, and significant day-to-day utility functions for effectively managing an ICF catalog environment. CR+ supports 24x7 ICF catalog availability; while a catalog is open, you can move entries and reorganize and repair the data. Use CR+ to:
- Maintain 100% catalog structural integrity. Keep operations running while protecting the environment. Proactively analyze, isolate, and resolving issues before they become major problems.
- Manage all catalogs centrally. Improve administrator effectiveness and productivity by managing catalogs across the entire enterprise from a single solution with an easy-to-use, familiar user interface.
- Recover business-critical information - fast, with the fastest, one-step catalog recovery solution available today.
- Understand catalog file system relationships - and identify and correct recovery exposures at a moment's notice.
- Optimize business resiliency & disaster recovery operations and enable rapid application availability with the fastest and most accurate catalog and DASD data set synchronization.
- Maximize data protection and accessibility. Ensure continuous high availability of mission-critical data and systems, no matter how large the enterprise.
- Reduce risk. Employ "what if" scenarios to determine the outcome of an operation and avoid unintended results.

