Using a Visual Warehouse 5.2 program to run the DB2 RUNSTATS utility

This step is intended for Data Warehouse Center users who previously used Visual Warehouse Version 5.2.

Use this step to run the Visual Warehouse 5.2 DB2 UDB RUNSTATS (VWPSTATS) program in the Data Warehouse Center. This step runs the DB2 UDB RUNSTATS utility on a target table.

You schedule this step to run on the target table of a process, after the process completes.

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To define a Visual Warehouse 5.2 DB2 UDB RUNSTATS program:

  1. Open the step notebook.

  2. Specify information for your step:

  3. On the Processing Options page, in the Agent Site list, select an agent site where you want your step to run. The selections in this list are agent sites that are common to the source tables, the target table, and the transformer or program that you are defining.

  4. If you want to have the option to to run your step at any time, select the Run on demand checkbox. Your step must be in test or production mode before you can run it.

  5. Optional: Select the Populate externally check box if the step is populated externally, meaning that it is invoked in some way other than by the Data Warehouse Center. The step does not have to have any other means of running in the Data Warehouse Center in order to change the mode to production.

    If Populate externally is not selected, then the step must either have a schedule, be linked to a transient table that is input to another step, or be started by another program in order to change the mode to production.

  6. In the Retry area, specify how many times you want the step to run again if it needs to be retried and the amount of time that you want to pass before the next run of the step.

  7. Click OK to save your changes and close the step notebook.

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