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Course Skill Level:

Intermediate

Course Duration:

5 day/s

  • Course Delivery Format:

    Live, instructor-led.

  • Course Category:

    Database

  • Course Code:

    DB2IDAN22J02

Who should attend & recommended skills:

Administrators with basic relational data model & SQL experience

Who should attend & recommended skills

  • Db2 Database Administrators, Data Administrators and Systems Administrators who will be designing, implementing and/or maintaining Db2 12 for z/OS
  • Relational data model: Basic (1-2 years’ experience)
  • SQL: Basic (1-2 years’ experience)

About this course

Intermediate Database Administration is a 5-day course that provides the attendee with the skill set required to understand physical database designs, perform database implementations and to maintain Db2 for z/OS databases in an on-going production environment.

Skills acquired & topics covered

  • Db2 and the System Environment
  • Data Structures and Design
  • Database Design Implementation
  • Operations and Recovery

Course breakdown / modules

  • Db2 Structural Overview
  • Db2 and Mainframes
  • Address Spaces
    • Systems Services
    • Database Services
    • IRLM
    • Distributed Data Facility
    • Stored Procedures
  • Db2 Data Sharing Overview
  • Db2 Storage Management
  • Db2 and RACF
  • Attachment Facilities
  • Data Structure Management
  • Commands and Utilities Overview
  • Data Access
  • The Logical to Physical Transition Process
  • Workshop

  • Table Spaces
  • Workshop
  • Table Design
  • Column Design
  • Workshop

  • Indexes
  • Workshop
  • Data Integrity
    • Referential Integrity
    • Constraint Rules
    • UDTs and UDFs and Views
    • Triggers
  • The Db2 Catalog Details
    • Tables and Uses
    • Developing useful Catalog SQL
  • Workshop

  • Design Implementation
  • LOAD Utility
  • CHECK Utility
  • COPY Utility
  • Workshop

  • RUNSTATS Utility
  • Analyzing Statistics
  • REORG Utility
  • Workshop

  • Backup & Recovery Procedures
  • Full vs. Incremental Copies
  • Utilities:
    • COPY
    • QUIESCE
    • RECOVER
    • MERGECOPY
    • REPORT
    • MODIFY
  • UNLOAD utility
    • Functionality, Syntax
    • Unloading from table spaces
    • Unloading from copy datasets
    • Samples
  • Copy-To-Copy
    • Functionality
    • Syntax
    • Samples
  • Cross Loader
    • Functionality, EXEC SQL
    • LOAD INCURSOR, Samples
  • Dynamic Utility Jobs
    • Overview
    • LISTDEF
    • TEMPLATE
    • OPTIONS
    • Samples
  • Workshop

  • How Db2 Startup/Shutdown works
  • Understanding Allied Agents
  • Understanding Allied Agents
  • BSDS. Active Logs, Archive Logs
  • Physical DASD, storage issues
  • Abnormal Startup and Issues
  • How to Prepare for System Recovery
    • Jobs we develop
    • Disaster Recovery Scenarios
  • Steps in System Recovery
    • Order of recovery in Db2
  • Determining successful systems recovery
  • Determining what Data Recovery is required
  • Stand-alone utilities and Service Aids
  • Workshop