DBAs and iSeries (was: Creating dds source from SQL Tables)

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I should hope we're non-standard!  I've been going around and around 
with a software vendor that keeps insisting that I need to tell our 
DBA to run the "Database Optimization Tool" they provide--  it uses 
the RUNSTATS process to rebuild file indices, gather statistics, and 
otherwise clean up the database.

I keep telling them that the iSeries doesn't -have- a RUNSTATS 
command, it doesn't -need- a RUNSTATS command, and that I -am- the 
DBA.

Well, I'm the closest thing to a DBA we have on the iSeries machines.

Now as far as I can determine, RUNSTATS does exist for DB2 on -other- 
platforms...  but all we do on the iSeries is a RGZPFM from time to 
time.  But try and convince non-iSeries people that we have a better 
way...

*sigh*

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--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




> Loyd wrote (in part):
>
> Unlike Oracle and SQL server, I do not need to gather statistics,
> rebuild existing indexes, manage table spaces, or have headaches when
> updating server hardware. Does this make DB2 on our beloved box a
> non-standard database?