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CV843G - DB2 11 for zOS Database Administration Workshop Part 2

Course outline

3 days
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Duration

3 days

Course Description

This course teaches database administrators various features they must be familiar with as DB2 11 for z/OS Database Administrators. These include program preparation, online schema changes, user defined functions, archive-enabled and temporal tables, partition management, stored procedures, and triggers. The course includes many hands-on demonstrations which give the students experience with the included topics. Additionally, there is information on other features in the course appendices, including schemas and user defined data types, clone tables, materialized query tables, large objects, global variables, and row permissions and column masks. This course is a follow-on course to CV832 – IBM DB2 11 for z/OS Database Administration Workshop Part 1. Note: This course is 3 days in length. If the instructor has time, he can cover the optional appendices as desired.

Audience

Database Administrators and System Programmers who would like to get further insight into database administration tasks.

Pre-requisites

DB2 11 for z/OS Database Administration Part 1 (CV832) or equivalent experience or knowledge.

Objectives

  • Introduce program preparation and the use of packages
  • Discuss immediate and pending online schema changes
  • Utilize UDFs
  • Utilize archive enabled tables
  • Utilize temporal tables
  • Manage partitions
  • Utilize Stored Procedures
  • Work with Triggers

Key topics

1: Program preparation and the use of packages part 1

Go through the program preparation steps and execute programs in the DB2 environment using the TSO Attachment Facility

Resolve some of the most commonly occurring problems, for example SQL error -805

Understand the importance of collections and packages

Understand how to access different tables and views at execution time without changing the program

2: Online schema changes part 1

Discuss immediate, online schema changes

Change data types and lengths of columns

Rename indexes

Add columns to indexes

Relate implications of renaming a column in a table or renaming an index

Describe versioning

3: Online schema changes part 2

Explore pending schema changes

Materialize pending schema changes

Drop a column

Migrate existing classic table space types to UTS

Change table space characteristics such as DSSIZE, page size, and SEGSIZE

Take care of the implications of applying those pending online schema changes

4: UDFs

Differentiate between external scalar functions, external table functions, SQL scalar functions, and sourced functions

Determine which user-defined function will be invoked given the invocation statement

Create a user-defined function

5: Archive-enabled tables

Describe transparent archiving

Understand archive-enabled and archive tables

6: Temporal tables

Understand the need for temporal tables

Utilize System Time temporal tables

Utilize Business Time temporal tables

Utilize Bitemporal tables

7: Partition management part 1

Add partitions

Rotate partitions

  • 8. Partition management part 2

Modify limit keys

Rebalance partitions

  • 9. Stored procedures part 1

Explain what a stored procedure is

Describe how to implement and maintain stored procedures

Discuss types of stored procedures

Define external stored procedures

Examine DB2 commands affecting stored procedures

  • 10. Stored procedures part 2

Examine native SQL stored procedures

Explain native SQL procedure versioning and deployment

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.