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Overview

This course will introduce the student to advanced database administration skills, including program preparation and the use of packages, online schema changes, partition management, and stored procedures; as well as performance and availability features of utilities (including LOAD, REBUILD INDEX, REORG, and UNLOAD). This course does not cover distributed data processing, nor does it cover data sharing.
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What You'll Learn

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Who Should Attend

Students needing to augment their skill set in administering a Db2 12 for z/OS database environment.
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Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with the z/OS operating system, including TSO, ISPF, and SDSF.
  • Familiarity with SQL DML (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE) and DDL (CREATE, ALTER, DROP) statements
  • Basic skills administering a Db2 12 for z/OS database environment, including the use of basic utilities, serialization, and basic database security.

Learning Journey

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1. Program preparation and the use of packages part 1

  • Program preparation overview
  • Execution time errors
  • BIND actions
  • Package status and REBIND
  • Deleting a package
  • Determining the table/view qualifier

2. Online schema changes part 1

  • Changing data type
  • Adding columns to a table
  • Renaming columns in a table
  • Renaming indexes
  • Adding columns to indexes
  • Versioning

3. Online schema changes part 2

  • Pending online schema changes
  • Dropping columns from a table
  • Converting to UTS
  • Other pending changes
  • Impact of pending changes on immediate options
  • Restrictions and considerations

4. Partition management part 1

  • Adding partitions
  • Rotating partitions

5. Partition management part 2

  • Modifying limit keys
  • Rebalancing partitions

6. Stored procedures part 1

  • External stored procedures
  • WLM-established application environments
  • Altering and dropping a stored procedure
  • Commands for stored procedures
  • Execution privileges
  • Catalog information

7. LOAD and REBUILD INDEX

  • LOAD with parallel index build
  • LOAD partitions in parallel
  • REBUILD INDEX
  • Inline image copies and statistics
  • LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE
  • LOAD REPLACE SHRLEVEL REFERENCE

8. REORG

  • Performance features of REORG
  • Online REORG
  • Inline image copies and statistics
  • Considerations for PBG table spaces
  • Online REORG with LOBs (optional)

9. UNLOAD

  • Overview
  • Image copy specification
  • Table-only input specification
  • SHRLEVEL option
  • Modes of operation

10. Program preparation and the use of packages part 2 (optional)

  • Table mirroring
  • Package versioning
  • Plan management
  • Other REBIND PACKAGE options
  • Application compatibility

11. Stored procedures part 2 (optional)

  • Native stored procedures
  • Native procedure deployment
  • Installation preparation for DB2 10 for z/OS
  • Installation CLIST
  • Installing the DB2 10 subsystem
  • Verification of DB2 10 with the sample applications
  • Performing parameter update
  • Migrating to DB2 11 conversion mode
  • DB2 10 enabling-new-function and new-function modes
  • Verification of DB2 11 with the sample applications
  • 10-byte RBA and LRSN (new)

This course is not associated with any Certification.

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