# Modifying dismissed Amazon RDS recommendations to active recommendations
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You can move one or more dismissed Amazon RDS recommendations to active recommendations using the Amazon RDS console, AWS CLI, or Amazon RDS API.

## Console
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**To move one or more dismissed recommendations to active recommendations**

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/).

1. In the navigation pane, perform any of the following:
   + Choose **Recommendations**.

     The **Recommendations** page displays a list of recommendations sorted by the severity for all the resources in your account.
   + Choose **Databases** and then choose **Recommendations** for a resource in the databases page.

     The **Recommendations** tab displays the recommendations and its details for the selected resource.

1. Choose one or more dismissed recommendations from the list and then choose **Move to active**.  
![\[A few dismissed recommendations selected and Move to active button highlighted in the console\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/images/Recommendations_DismissToActive.png)

   A banner displays a successful or failure message when the moving the selected recommendations from dismissed to active status.

   The following example shows the banner with the successful message.  
![\[a banner in the console showing the message with the number of resources moved successfully from dismissed to active recommendations\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/images/Recommendation-DismissToActive-Banner.png)

   The following example shows the banner with the failure message.  
![\[a banner in the console showing the message with the resource that failed to move from dismissed to active recommendations\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/images/Recommendation-DismissToActive-Banner-Failure.png)

## CLI
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**To change a dismissed RDS recommendation to active recommendation using the AWS CLI**

1. Run the command `aws rds describe-db-recommendations --filters "Name=status,Values=dismissed"`.

   The output provides a list of recommendations in `dismissed` status.

1. Find the `recommendationId` for the recommendation that you want to change the status from step 1.

1. Run the command `>aws rds modify-db-recommendation --status active --recommendationId <ID>` with the `recommendationId` from step 2 to change to active recommendation.

## RDS API
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To change a dismissed RDS recommendation to active recommendation using the Amazon RDS API, use the [ModifyDBRecommendation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_ModifyDBRecommendation.html) operation.