DBizners is a global provider of infrastructure services focusing on z/OS Db2 database management software. Click4DB is an innovative software helping customers to achieve their goals and deliver productivity gains.
Database administrators have always played a central role in organizations. With the growing number of Db2 systems and the limitation of human resources, DBAs are finding it increasingly difficult to fulfill their missions. This is especially true on the z/OS platform, where most interactions with Db2 are still based on outdated interfaces and tools.
Over the years, every DBA developed several custom JCLs, programs, and scripts. Often these tools have not been updated to support new Db2 versions and they are maybe scattered all over private DBA libraries. In house tools may still be functional, but they are poorly documented and difficult to use by all members of the DBA team.
Producing reports and managing Db2 require collecting data from many different sources with incompatible formats: SQL Queries, System Commands, Utility Programs, z/OS files, etc.
Click4DB is a software solution that includes over 100 ready-to-use scripts or scenarios.
Scenarios can perform various classic DBA tasks and produce reports covering all areas of Db2. For example:
Click4DB has all the built-in functions to accumulate, compare, aggregate and transform raw data into understandable and usable information.
Click4DB - Buffer Pool Allocation
To increase Click4DB functionalities, DBA can develop their own scenarios to perform tasks specific to their environment. Scenarios can be stored in a repository sharable by all DBAs.
Comparison of definitions between environments, installation verification, message tracking and document generation
Detailed Access Paths analysis and identification of potential performance issues
Tracking directory access ratios and suggestions for optimizing Global Buffers and Cast Out write
Display system parameters, comparison between systems and verification of standard compliance
Verification of backup strategy, detection of object potentially at risk and log tracking with modification simulation
Inventory of security authorizations and comparisons of privileges between environment
Display and compare active classes and environment system trace levels
Display resource utilization ratios and optimize buffer pools and cache
Compare environment statistics and manage MEPL and RUNSTSTS utilities
Using the intuitive graphical user interface, Database Administrator can optimize their time by immediate access to a wide range of reports covering all areas of Db2. DBAs only need to specify few input parameters (Db2 system, table and column names, etc.) and in a few clicks, the reports are available for viewing. Using Click4Db, DBAs are able to respond to requests in a minimum of time.
The modern user interface of Click4DB increases productivity for less experienced DBAs and facilitates the transition when skills DBA eventually retire. With Click4DB, it is not necessary to know the technical details of utility programs such as DB2TEP, DFSORT and SPUFI or write hundreds of lines of code in REXX. Out-of-the-box, Click4DB provides:
Click4DB is designed by experienced DBAs for system and application DBAs
Most application and system management tasks are covered by Click4DB. Information gathering, transformation and reports building are fully integrated.
Click4DB collects information from multiple sources, e.g. Db2 Subsystems, SQL Queries, Command Execution, Utility Programs, Stored Procedures, Zparm, Catalogue, and z/OS files.
Click4DB has all the built-in functions to accumulate, aggregate, compare and transform the collected data into useful information. It can extract specific values from console messages and perform data comparisons. For example, comparing some values in K and others in MB and comparing dates formatted differently (YY-MM-DD or DD‑MM‑YYYY).
Click4DB produces user-friendly reports presented in tabular form and graphs. Reports can be converted to a PDF or exported to CSV (Comma Separated Variable). With Click4DB there is no program to write, no sort required, no spreadsheet to fill. Reports also include “Best-Practices” recommendations for optimizing Db2 and tuning application performances. It delivers the output you need in one click!
Click4DB is suitable for all companies, but it is mostly beneficial for enterprise with many Db2 systems. One of the main advantages of Click4DB is its ability to automatically run scenarios simultaneously in multiple systems.
Performing searches or query several Db2 systems is tedious and time consuming. For example, analyzing a Db2 component may require 15 minutes, but running the same analysis in 20 Db2 subsystems will take 300 minutes (That’s 5 hours!).
With Click4DB, the DBA can execute the same analysis simultaneously in 20 systems in just a few minutes. The results are consolidated into a single user-friendly report.
Click4DB includes over one hundred built-in scenarios. To better understand the advantages and the possibilities, here are three sample scenarios:
1. Compare database definitions of two or more Db2 systems. This report shows the differences between the systems DBAG and DBCG.
2. Scenario suggesting up to five possible values for creating Virtual Indexes. The main advantage of this scenario is the speed of execution compared to a manual analysis.
3. Displays the number of objects for each Buffer Pools in system DBBG.
The number of databases is constantly growing while staff and budgets are decreasing. Db2 managers need to do more with less even when experienced DBAs retire.
Click4DB allows DBA to execute complex scenarios in a minimum of time. It provides professional outputs without extra manipulation. With Click4DB, the DBA can execute scenarios simultaneously in any number of Db2’s without code modification.
Time saved by using Click4DB allows DBAs to focus on more important tasks, such as optimizing Db2 systems and tuning application performance.
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