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Author Archives: James Gill
Quick Tip – DB2 Diagnosis Guide
Did you know that as from February 2007 (with UK21798 for DB2 z/OS V8) the Diagnosis Guide ships as part of SDSNIVPD – member DSNDR? Do a binary download of this to get the version that applies to your current … Continue reading
Five Days in the labs – Part 2. DB2 pureScale Coupling Facility
By James Gill We were lucky enough to get an opportunity to spend a week in the IBM Boeblingen Labs in Germany, to get some hands on experience with DB2 9.8 – pureScale – or Data Sharing on mid-range. The … Continue reading
Coupling Facility Sizing Tool
Just a short blog entry this week: If you find yourself trying to build a parallel sysplex, one of the things you’ll need to do is establish how big your coupling facility (CF) needs to be. IBM provide a handy … Continue reading
Posted in DB2, IBM, Information Management, James Gill, System Z
Tagged Coupling facility, IBM, System Z
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TWS – Export and Import
I had to set up 10 TWS batch schedules this week, and baulked a bit at the idea of going through the admin tool and clicking them all in. Following a discusion with a colleague, I came across a TWS … Continue reading
RESTORE.EXE Updated – 64-bit DB2 Support
As the title says, restore.exe (automated redirected restore with TSM support) has been tested against DB2 UDB V8.2 on Windows 2003 Server 64-bit (64-bit instance) and works. Next port will be to Linux 32-bit. Porting to 64-bit will be problematic … Continue reading
Posted in DB2, IBM, Information Management, James Gill, Linux, Techie Tips, Uncategorized
Tagged 64 bit, AIX, DB2, DB2 UDB V8.2, IBM, Linux 32-bit, Solaris
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Snapshot Monitoring Tool Progress
Updates have been applied to snapper (data collector), snapsave (recorder) and snapmon (web based front end) to allow snapsave and snapmon to support multiple collectors. New test data was generated, and it is now apparent that some summarisation of … Continue reading
Posted in DB2, DB2 Monitoring, DB2 Tools, IBM, Information Management, James Gill
Tagged database monitoring, DB2 Tools, Monitoring Tool, snapshot monitoring
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Progress on the snapshot monitoring tool
The front end has been modified to include updates to the report presentation: Colour coding of the grid report to show which columns are chartable. Charting support using Dojo. The charts are presented in a “dialog box” (another Dojo widget). … Continue reading
Posted in DB2, DB2 Monitoring, DB2 Tools, IBM, Information Management, James Gill
Tagged database monitoring, DB2, DB2 monitoring, DB2 Tools
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Snapshot Monitoring Tool – Latest
The snapshot monitoring tool now has a data recording component for DBM snapshots that records the event and all of the details into a DB2 UDB database. Work has started on a web-based front end (Apache / PHP / … Continue reading
Posted in DB2, DB2 Monitoring, DB2 Tools, Information Management, James Gill
Tagged database monitoring, DB2, DB2 monitoring, DB2 UDB, Dojo, snapshot monitoring tool
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Snapshot Monitoring Tool – Latest
The data capture aspects (“snapper”) of the snapshot monitoring tool are now complete. Thread scheduling has been verified, along with the timer thread operation and the communications thread. A small command line utility has also been written to tell snapper to shutdown. … Continue reading
Snapshot Monitoring Tool
The snapshot server / daemon is just about finished – I need to build in some way of driving the shutdown event (already built into all of the threads) and put some additional events in to make sure that all … Continue reading
Posted in DB2, DB2 Monitoring, DB2 Tools, James Gill
Tagged DB2 tables, DB2 Tools, monitoring
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