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Question: Like to find the easy way to intelligently automate test data management and provisioning of Db2 QA and Test environments?

Let's say you’ve been tasked with setting up a refresh process for test / QA / UAT environments with several thousand DB2 tables. How long does it take to create all the required jobs? How long for all the control cards? Do you need to create the target tables first? Oh, and you must use different schemas and storage groups, that’ll make things more complicated. What about those tables where the testers have added and changed columns? And those identity columns and sequences are always trouble. Better double check if the tables have grown or if DB2 has added more VSAMs so that you don’t run out of space halfway through like last time. Don’t forget catalog statistics and RTS. And now there’s also XML data, what’s the best way to copy that? Did we mention that the target DB2 is on a different Sysplex?

All this is handled automatically by BCV5™. You only need to specify your source and target DB2 and which tablespaces to copy. You get a job chain consisting of 6 jobs, no matter how many tablespaces and indexes are involved in the process. BCV5 takes care of everything – structures, data, space allocation, identity columns, XML, renaming, recalling HSM data sets, copying over TCP/IP, and much more. It comes with two interfaces, ISPF and graphical, and allows you to set up large and complex processes in mere minutes. Great customer benchmarks and user testimonials make this a must try product.

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BCV5™ is focused mainly on the mainframe DB2® environment for fast table or bulk refresh/migrates. BCV5 delivers data in 1/10th the time, effort and CPU.

XDM™ is a multi-platform (Mainframe, Unix, Linux, Windows within and between) for DB2® z/OS®, DB2 LUW, Oracle®, SQL Server®, IMS®, VSAM®. It can select/migrate/copy/mask data and RI related data for test cases and other data needs.