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

runstats and reorg sure do exist on our Windows UDB implementation
that's part of our Websphere Commerce System than runs on Windows.
Two-tiered, with Apache, WAS and WCS on one system, and UDB on a
different system. And when everything is right - it flies. But if you
don't run runstats and reorg on a regular basis, database access will
become so slow that it's not functional. Taking minutes for a simple
select.

On 2/16/07, PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<vent>

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*

</vent>

--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?


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