DB2 10 for z/OS Utilities for Database Administrators

Course details

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 (CV831GB) 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.

This course replaces course (CV870GB). This is the Classroom version of Instructor-led online course DB2 10 for z/OS Utilities for Database Administrators - instructor led online (3V871GB).

Target Audience:

Please refer to course overview.

Objectives:

• 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

Prerequisites:

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 (CV831GB), or have attained a similar level of knowledge