 | - Are you looking for an easy-to-use way to handle the change management process?
- Could your team benefit from working together to build changes by managing information stored in a single database?
- Can your DBAs benefit from being able to track the history of changes from a list and organize them for better system throughput and maximum convenience?
- Want to automate routine database administration tasks to improve overall productivity?
DB2 Object Comparison Tool maximizes system availability by keeping production and testing database environments running in parallel. This tool, used in conjunction DB2 Administration Tool, offers a solution for handling complex processes associated with change management. Database changes can impact database and application performance, pushing errors deeper into the database and making it more difficult to correct mistakes. These tools can help eliminate the need for DBAs step through the processes of data unloading, object dropping and rebuilding, and data reloading. Both tools are designed with an easy-to-use interactive system productivity facility (ISPF) interface that lets you manage and process the DB2 objects, and organize them for better system throughput. DB2 Object Comparison Tool simplifies the process of comparing objects and their dependents from different sources and then synchronizing the sources, consistently keeping production databases in step with those for testing and development. DB2 Object Comparison Tool support for SAP ERP solutions promotes database object integrity when objects are transported from test to production. The tool provides quality assurance by comparing objects in SAP ERP solution databases before they are transported, for example, from test to production. It also helps to identify potential risks or long running changes. DB2 Object Comparison is available as part of the DB2 Administration Toolkit for z/OS the SAP Edition, which is designed for SAP ERP users who have a System z machine dedicated to that environment. SAP customers who do not have a System z machine dedicated to SAP can benefit from the same capabilities the Toolkit offers by utilizing the individual DB2 tools.  - Groups of users can work collaboratively, building changes by managing information through a series of DB2 tables stored in one change management database.
- A comprehensive, easy-to-use change management process lets you audit changes, see where they are in the process, and know which changes have been deployed.
- Capability to capture only change information and not all the related objects helps streamline the change management process.
- DB2 Object Comparison Tool exploits the functions of DB2 UDB for z/OS, V8 by providing support for long names in all panels, 4096 partitions and data-partitioned secondary indexes, materialized query table, sequence object support and identity column enhancements, and use of online schema evolution.
- Improvements to batch interface, capability to escalate to tablespace for partitioned names, and ability to mask column names help increase productivity..
- Usability and performance improvements include REBIND of PLANs and PACKAGEs affected by a DROP and CREATE and parallel UNLOAD and LOAD of partitioned table spaces.
- REORG is generated when required by DB2 and dialogs can be saved and restored.
- A Walk-through option assists new users in building a compare operation.
- Capability to compare objects (and dependent objects) from one source to those in another allow your test and development database system to be a mirror image of the production system.
- Target changes are generated in Work Statement Lists that can be propagated to remote sites.
- A DB2 catalog extract function, a batch job generator, and a dynamic link library (DLL) extract feature are included, along with an ISPF front end and a batch compare capability .
- Intentional differences and naming discrepancies between two sets of objects are accounted for.
- Version files are used for comparison, providing increased flexibility to restore application objects to a previous version (backout) and to compare a new version with several production versions (clones) of the objects.
Program number: 5697-L40
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DB2 Object Comparison Tool for z/OS, V7.2 (5697-L40) and DB2 Administration Tool for z/OS, V7.2 (5697-L90) are designed to operate with the following DB2 versions: - DB2 9 (5635-DB2)
- DB2 V8 (5625-DB2)
- DB2 V7 (5675-DB2)
Also required is - z/OS V1.6 (5694-A01), or later
OR - z/OS.e V1.6 (5655-G52), or later
DB2 Object Comparison Tool V7.2 has a mandatory operational requirement and a mandatory installation requisite for DB2 Administration Tool V7.2. DB2 Administration Tool V7.2 has a conditional operational requirement for DB2 Object Comparison Tool V7.2 for use of change management processing. DB2 Administration Tool, Version 7.2 does not support prior versions of DB2 Object Comparison Tool. For more information on system requirements for DB2 System Management Utility for z/OS, see the Program Directory on the Library page.  Get Adobe® Reader®
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