BCV5

Provides for fast copying of DB2 databases or tables within the same or to another DB2 system. Compared with other conventional copying methods, BCV5 saves about 90% on elapsed copy time and over 90% on used resources (SSU, SRU). BCV5 copies DB2 data, i.e. databases or tables,
with or without auxiliary objects - indexes, views, triggers, procs, runstats. The same is true for copying between different DB2 subsystems – referred
to commonly as migration – where BCV5 automatically attends to OBID translation and RBA adaptation. With BCV5, copy jobs are completed in minutes where before they took hours. Weekend work can be executed within regular night shifts. Test data may be refreshed any time.

Note with BCV5 the suspension of live databases in the copying process is not necessary, i.e. no Quiesce or Shutdown required.
The target tablespaces are updated accordingly via the source DB2 log to a selected point in time.