Quick Beginnings Personal Edition

Administering Instances and Databases with the DB2 Administration Tools

You can administer local or remote servers using the DB2 Administration Tools. Use the Control Center to perform administration tasks such as configuring DB2 instances and databases, backing up and recovering data, scheduling jobs, and managing media, all from a graphical interface.

Note: This option is only available on DB2 Enterprise Edition, DB2 Enterprise - Extended Edition, DB2 Connect Personal Edition, and DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition.

If you want to access DB2 for OS/390 functions from the Control Center:

Verify the following information with your systems administrator:
1. You have a DB2 for OS/390 license (Version 5 or later).
2. You are using DB2 UDB for Enterprise Edition.
Apply a function modification identifier. Read the DB2 for OS/390 Program Directory. The program directory identifies and describes the contents of FMIDs for each tape or cartridge.
Apply any additional service to DB2 as described in the program directory.
Ensure that you enabled the stored procedures address space.

Managing Instances and Database Objects Using the Control Center

The Control Center displays instances and database objects (such as table spaces, tables, and packages) and their relationships to each other. Using the Control Center, you can manage local and remote servers from a single point of control. See Figure 2 for an example of the main Control Center window.

Figure 2. Control Center Main Window

From the Control Center, you can perform operations on database objects. These operations include:

Create and drop a database
Create, alter, and drop a table space or table
Create, alter, and drop an index
Backup and recover a database or table space
Define the replication sources and subscriptions to replicate data between systems
Monitor resources and events on a server.

You can also control DB2 instances by:

Maintaining communication protocols
Setting database manager and database configuration values that affect performance.

SmartGuides are provided to help you perform complex tasks. For example, a SmartGuide is available to tune the performance of your system. See Completing Tasks with SmartGuides for descriptions of the various SmartGuides and how to start them.

The Control Center provides additional functionality to assist you in managing your servers:

Control Center: Use the Control Center to start another session of the Control Center to administer a server.
Satellite Center: Use the Satellite Center to manage the Satellites that are served by a particular DB2 Control Server. It provides create, remove, modify, and manage functions for Satellites and Groups. You can also create and manage scripts to administer the Satellites.
Command Center: Use the Command Center to enter DB2 commands and SQL statements in an interactive window and see the execution result in a result window. You can scroll through the results and save the output to a file.
Script Center: Use the Script Center to create scripts, which you can store and invoke at a later time. These scripts can contain DB2 commands, SQL statements, as well as operating system commands. Scripts can be scheduled to run unattended. These jobs can be run once or set up to run on a repeating schedule; a repeating schedule is particularly useful for tasks like backup.
Alert Center: Use the Alert Center to monitor your system for early warnings of potential problems or to automate actions to correct problems discovered.
Journal: Use the Journal to view all available information about jobs that are pending execution, executing, or that have completed execution. You can also view the recovery history log, the alerts log, and the messages log; and review the results of jobs that are run unattended.
Tools Setting: Use the Tools Setting to change the settings for the DB2 Administration Tools.
License Center: Use the License Center to manage licenses and display license status and usage of any DB2 products installed on your system. You can also use the License Center to configure your system for proper license monitoring.
Information Center: The Information Center provides quick access to DB2 product information. This product information includes such items as: database tasks, reference material, DB2 documentation, troubleshooting aids, sample programs for application development, and DB2 web-related URLs.

You can also analyze performance using the DB2 Performance Monitor and Visual Explain. These tools are available from the Control Center.

Use the DB2 Performance Monitor to monitor the performance of your system. You can monitor activity by sampling data over a period of time or using data for a particular event. See "Monitoring Databases Using DB2 Performance Monitor" for more information.

Use Visual Explain to view the access plan for explained SQL statements as a graph. You can use the information available from the graph to tune your SQL queries for better performance. See "Viewing SQL Access Plans Using Visual Explain" for more information.

You can find additional information in the Administration Guide or in the online help.

Managing Communications on the Server

The Control Center allows you to view, update, and reset server protocol settings. These functions are accessed by clicking with the right mouse button on an instance and selecting the Setup communications option from the pop-up menu. This tool helps database administrators to:

Configure communication parameters in the database manager by clicking with the right mouse button on an instance and selecting the Configure option from the pop-up menu.

By default, the setup program automatically detects and configures most communication protocols that it detects on your system.
Export database information in a profile that can be used to configure clients by clicking with the right mouse button on a system and selecting the Export option from the pop-up menu.

DB2 Personal Edition does not accept inbound client requests for data. You can only configure inbound communications on a DB2 Personal Edition workstation to allow administrative requests from a DB2 Administration Client.

For information on how to configure server communications, refer to the Installation and Configuration Supplement.

Monitoring Databases Using DB2 Performance Monitor

With the DB2 Performance Monitor, you can:

Identify and analyze performance problems in database applications or the database manager.
Use the early warning system to detect potential problems.
Automate actions to correct problems that are discovered.
Define your own statistics, in addition to the default set that is provided.

You can choose to monitor the current state of database activity or collect information when specific events occur. The Performance Monitor allows you to capture point-in-time information at specified intervals. The Event Analyzer allows you to view information about the occurrence of events such as deadlocks and transaction completions.

For additional information, refer to the Administration Guide or the online help.

You are also able to use the Windows NT Performance Monitor to monitor both database and system performance. For information on how to register DB2 resources and to use the Windows NT Performance Monitor, refer to the Administration Guide.

Viewing SQL Access Plans Using Visual Explain

Visual Explain helps database administrators and application developers to:

View the access plan chosen by the database manager's optimizer for a given SQL statement.
Tune SQL statements for better performance.
Design application programs and databases.
View all the details of an access plan, including the statistics in the system catalogs.
Decide whether or not to add an index to a table.
Identify the source of problems by analyzing the access plan or performance of SQL statements.
Use the portable snapshot function to view snapshots from any remote DB2 server.
Display access plans for queries on all supported DB2 configurations.

For additional information, refer to the Administration Guide or the online help.

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	Use the DB2 Performance Monitor to monitor the performance of your system. You can monitor activity by sampling data over a period of time or using data for a particular event. See "Monitoring Databases Using DB2 Performance Monitor" for more information.
	Use Visual Explain to view the access plan for explained SQL statements as a graph. You can use the information available from the graph to tune your SQL queries for better performance. See "Viewing SQL Access Plans Using Visual Explain" for more information.