DB2 10 for z/OS Utilities for Database Administrators

This course is designed to teach you advanced topics about DB2 for z/OS utilities. It is assumed that you attended course DB2 10 for z/OS Database Administration Workshop Part 1 (CV831) so that you already have basic skills about the main utilities. Recovery-oriented topics are not part of this course, so such utility functions are not presented.

Please refer to course overview.

You should have attended course:

• DB2 9 for z/OS Database Administration Workshop Part 1 (CV830) or DB2 10 for z/OS Database Administration Workshop Part 1 (CV831), or have attained a similar level of knowledge

• Use RUNSTATS to accelerate the performance of a given SQL access
• Employ DSN1COPY, REPAIR, and DIAGNOSE for DBA tasks which are not recovery-oriented
• Use parallel index build with the LOAD, REORG and REBUILD INDEX utilities
• Load partitions in parallel
• Determine the appropriate LOAD options to use while considering concurrency and performance requirements
• Choose appropriate options with REORG and UNLOAD to achieve optimal performance and availability
• Provide appropriate LISTDEF, TEMPLATE, and OPTIONS utility control statements for use in DB2 utilities

• (CV831) utilities review
• RUNSTATS, DSN1COPY,REPAIR, and DIAGNOSE
• LOAD and REBUILD INDEX performance and availability
• Online CHECK DATA
• REORG performance and availability
• UNLOAD performance and availability
• Generic utility jobs (LISTDEF and TEMPLATE)
• Appendix: Clone tables

The course includes extensive machine exercises.