DB2 z/OS Support and Services
Add Datavail’s DB2 Subject Matter Experts to Your Team
Datavail DB2 z/OS services range from the routine to the advanced.
On our team, Datavail has established specialty groups to provide deep technical and administrative services on the following:
Configuration of DB2 subsystems
- Support for planning and upgrade of DB2 to most current version
- DB2 installation and migration support
- Support for enabling data sharing
- Review of ZPARMs
- Support for configuration and migration of 3rd party tools including BMC, CA and IBM tools
Routine administrative tasks
- Monitor datasets and storage groups for available space and take remedial action when it reaches threshold
- Support for all types of partitioned tables including partition-by-growth tables
- Setup and perform routine cleanups of packages and catalogs.
- Review and monitoring of logging
- Setup JCL and monitor jobs for reorganization, runstats, unloads, loads, image copies and recovery
- Conversion and migration of databases from other platforms into DB2 and vice versa
Data sharing and replication
- Support for planning, installing, migrating and enabling DB2 Data Sharing
- Performance monitoring and tuning of data sharing subsystems
- Setup, monitor and troubleshoot DB2 Replication across multiple subsystems and platforms
Data recovery
- Development and review of backup and recovery strategy
- Monitor and support of backup, recover and restore operations
- Support for disaster recovery setup and disaster recovery exercises
Performance monitoring and tuning
- Support for planning and managing DB2 subsystem performance
- Review of ZPARMs, table space, partitioned tables, buffer pool and top SQL analysis
- Review of table locking and concurrency
- Tune and manage performance of interfaces like WebSphere, PeopleSoft, etc.
Database monitoring
- Routine Monitoring of key elements like disk space, stored procedures, database load, buffer pool metrics
- Time spent for sorting, dead locks, concurrency, parallel processing and log performance
Security
- Review of security for users, Authorized IDs and groups
- Review access through RACF or ACF2
- Setup database auditing and review the reports
- Review of users with higher privileges
SQL support
- Review and tuning of SQL that are top resource consuming, top time consuming and higher number of execution
- Review of plans, packages and stored procedures for efficient access paths
- Monitor and calibrate both static and dynamic SQL queries
Troubleshooting and support
- Work with IBM support by opening PMRs and supplying required details
- Obtain required PTFs and APARs from IBM and apply them to resolve problems
Health checks and best practices
- Perform routine Health checks on DB2 subsystems and provide recommendations for the issues identified
- Best practices review for DB2 planning and setup, administration, performance and SQL tuning
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