Archive facilitates data retention, application retirement,
and data growth management.
Introduction
IBM®Optim™ for z/OS® manages enterprise data throughout every stage of the information lifecycle. Optim™ enables you to assess, classify, subset, archive, store, and access enterprise application data.
Session Overview
To highlight key facilities provided with Archive, the following overview presents a brief sample session.
Archive and Restore Data Archive provides facilities that allow you to archive and restore data.
Definitions: Archive Collections
This section describes how to create and maintain the Definitions stored in the Optim™ Directory for Archive Collections.
Archive Application Programming Interface
Using this API, your application can pass information needed to identify multiple Archive Files and tables in the file, using a separate API call for each Archive File and each table.
SQL Grammar for Search and Restore
When you use selection criteria or SQL statements to find specific data in an Archive File, the syntax and grammar may differ slightly from SQL syntax and grammar you are accustomed to using with DB2®.