Ruud,

Under the hood 'ba db ....' does perform a 'db2 backup db ...', but with added 
features like being able to restore the TSM database while TSM is unavailable 
because the database needs to be restored. I can think of no good reason to not 
use the supported and perfectly functional 'backup db' from TSM.

On 6 nov. 2012, at 15:11, "Meuleman, Ruud" <ruud.meuleman AT TATASTEEL DOT COM> 
wrote:

> All,
> 
> One can make TSM database backups within the TSM application (ba db 
> dev=<devclass> t=f), since version 6 one can make also a db2 backup of it 
> (db2 backup db tsminst1 online use tsm).
> 
> Does anybody knows if there are advantages of making db2 backups compared to 
> TSM database backups?
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Ruud Meuleman

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