DB2 Universal Database eliminates the need to use manual procedures for populating and maintaining a data warehouse by providing scheduling options to automate the ongoing build and refresh processes. Included are monitoring features that allow you to manage exceptions rather than worrying about day-to-day operations.

You use the Data Warehouse Center to schedule when you want a step to run. The step will run automatically at the scheduled time or interval. You can also specify when the step will run in relation to other steps. For example, you can specify that a step will run after another step completes. If the steps do not relate to each other hierarchically, you can specify a conditional relationship between them, so that one starts when another is successful or when another fails.