The document outlines a 32-hour course on basic and advanced administration for DB2 on Linux, Unix, and Windows. It covers prerequisites, a detailed course outline, and units ranging from database creation and object management to backup, recovery, and performance tuning. Each unit includes practical exercises to reinforce the learning of DB2 concepts and techniques.

1. Basic & Advanced
Administration for Linux
Duration: 32 hours
Pre requisites
• Basic Operating system knowledge and Unix/Linux commands exposure
• Basic knowledge on SQL commands and RDBMS concepts
• DBA experience on any OLTP/OLAP environments is an added advantage
Course Outline
• Overview of DB2 on Linux, UNIX and Windows
• Command Line Processor (CLP) and GUI usage
• Database Manager Instance
• Creating databases and data placement
• Creating database objects
• Moving data
• Backup and recovery
• Database Maintenance, Monitoring and Problem Determination
• Locking and concurrency
• Security
• Log Management
• Performance Tuning

2. • Advanced Monitoring
• High Availability with DB2 database products
Contents
• Unit 1: Overview of DB2 on Linux, UNIX and Windows (1 hour)
 DB2 family products overview (LUW, Mainframe, iSeries)
 DB2 LUW product editions (Express-c to PureScale to InfoSphere)
 DB2 product features and functions
 DB2 client connectivity options (Data Studio, Data Server Client)
• Unit 2: Command Line Processor (CLP) and GUI usage (1 hour)
 Introduction to DB2 CLP environment
 Non-interactive mode
 Interactive mode
 db2 command line options
 Client connectivity from Data Studio
• Unit 3: The DB2 Database Manager Instance (3 hours)
 About DB2 Instance
 Database Manager Instance overview
 DB2 instance creation pre-requisites
 Create and Drop an instance
 Starting and Stopping an instance
 list and modify DBM configuration
 db2set command

3.  db2 history command
 DB2 registry and environment variables
o Exercise 1: Product installation, extract and instance creation
• Unit 4: Creating databases and data placement (4 hours)
 Database creation pre-requisites
 Database storage requirements
 Table spaces overview
 Storage management overview (SMS, DMS, Automatic)
 Default Table spaces
 CREATE DATABASE command
 List DB configuration parameters
 Modify DB configuration parameters
 Database directories and files introduction
 System catalog tables and views
 Containers, extents, pages overview
 CREATE TABLESPACE syntax
 Storage groups overview
 CREATE STOGROUP syntax
 Assigning a tablespace to a storage group
 Introduction to db2pd command
 ALTER TABLESPACE, ALTER STOGROUP
 DB2 LIST DB DIRECTORY
 DB2 LIST NODE DIRECTORY
 Activate and deactivate a database

4. o Exercise 2: Creating databases and data placement
• Unit 5: Creating database objects (2 hours)
 DB2 object hierarchy
 CREATE SCHEMA
 CREATE TABLE, VIEW
 CREATE ALIAS, INDEX, TRIGGER
 creation of temporary tables
 Creation of temporal tables
 Table partitioning
 Referential Integrity
 Keys, Constraints
 db2look CLI command
 Authorization & Authentication
o Exercise 3: Creation of table spaces, tables, databases
• Unit 6: Moving data (3 hours)
 IMPORT versus LOAD
 Offline versus online load
 LOAD QUERY TABLE
 DB2 LIST UTILITIES
 Pending states (Load, backup, set integrity)
 EXPORT command
 db2move cli command
 ADMIN_MOV_TABLE procedure

5. o Exercise 4: Moving data using Export, Import, Load
• Unit 7: Backup and recovery (3 hours)
 Transactional logging (Circular, Archival)
 Configure database logs
 Backup utility options
 Recovery utility options
 ROLLFORWARD
 DB2 RECOVER DATABASE
 ONLINE versus OFFLINE backup
o Exercise 5: Backup and recovery
• Unit 8: Database Maintenance, Monitoring and Problem Determination (3 hours)
 RUNSTATS utility
 REORGCHK utility
 REORG Utility
 DB2 List commands
 db2pd - Monitory and troubleshoot DB2
 MON_GET_TABLE function
 CREATE EVENT MONITOR
 DB2 Optimizer
 DB2 EXPLAIN
 db2diag.log diagnostic log
 db2trc command to obtain trace
 db2fodc: collect diagnostic data for system hang

6.  db2advis: Analyze workload
o Exercise 6: Using above DB2 Tools/Utilities
• Unit 9: Locking and concurrency (2 hours)
 Importance of locking
 Table lock modes
 Row lock modes
 Lock mode compatibility
 Isolation levels
 LOCK TABLE statement
 Lock escalation, wait, and timeout
 Deadlocks and detection
o Exercise 7: using db2pd to identify locks, wait locks, deadlocks
• Unit 10: Security (1 hour)
 Authentication versus Authorization
 SYSADM, SYSCTRL, SYSMAINT, SYSMON
 DBADM, SECADM, ACCESSCTRL
 DB2 security privilege hierarchies
 Grant and Revoke privileges
o Exercise 8: Database Security using grant/revoke
• Unit 11: Log Management (2 hours)
 Database seeds
 Log sequence numbers

7.  db2ckbkp -l command
 logfilsiz, logbufsz
 Logprimary and Logsecond
 db2pd to check logging activity
 Log Archive processing
 Log retrieval processing
 MAX_LOG configuration parameter
o Exercise 9: Log archive/retrieval process
• Unit 12: Performance Tuning (3 hours)
 Analyze SQL statements
 Create an access plan graph
 db2exfmt tool
 db2expln tool
 Using Indexes for performance
 Index usage statistics using db2pd
 MON_GET_INDEX
 MON_CONNECTION_SUMMARY view
 Clustering indexes
 db2advis command
o Exercise 10: Explain Tools, Indexes creation
• Unit 13: Advanced Monitoring (2 hours)
 GET SNAPSHOT command
 In-memory metrics

8.  Monitoring table functions
 Administrative views, functions
 Monitoring performance with SQL
 Monitor heath with SQL
o Exercise 11: In memory metrics, SQLS, Admin views, functions
• Unit 14: High Availability with DB2 Database products (2 Hours)
o High Availability options in DB2
o DR options in DB2
o High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR)
o High Availability through Log Shipping
o Log mirroring
o High Availability through suspended I/O and online split mirror support
o Exercise 12: DB2 HADR setup (1 primary, 1 standby creation, setup, communication)