StorageTek Lifecycle Director DB2 Manager 312564001 User Manual

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Table migration processing 
 
Introduction 
DB2 Manager provides functions to perform the migration of rows from DB2 
to Archive Manager storage. These functions are provided by the DB2 
Manager table migration utility, OTDBP100.   
The table migration utility is executed as a batch process, and should be 
scheduled to run at regular intervals in order to migrate rows from DB2 to an 
Archive Manager database.  The frequency of execution of this procedure will 
be controlled by operational factors, such as the overall amount of DB2 disk 
storage available, the rate of insertion of new rows, the frequency of update 
of migrated rows, the rate of retrieval of migrated rows etc. 
Careful planning is required when implementing a table migration strategy, in 
order to optimize system performance by migrating rows at the appropriate 
stage of their existence. Migration should be performed so that DB2 disk 
storage requirements may be minimized without introducing performance 
problems through the creation of an Archive Manager tape recall activity rate 
which exceeds the performance capacity of the installed tape library 
configuration. 
Following successful completion of migration processing, some DB2 
database management is needed if it is required to reclaim disk space 
released through the migration of rows to Archive Manager storage.   “DB2 
database reorganization” on page 88 explains the issues relating to this 
requirement and describes how to do this. 
 
Enabling a DB2 table for migration processing 
Before initiating DB2 Manager row migration processing for a DB2 table, the 
table must be enabled for this type of processing.   This consists of a number 
of activities as described in this section.  These activities must be 
successfully completed for each DB2 table which is to be processed by DB2 
Manager.