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AutoDBA – Automated Database Administration

AutoDBA is a collection of powerful utilities designed to simplify the cumbersome and detail-oriented tasks of managing NonStop (Tandem) Enscribe, SQL/MP and SQL/MX databases.  AutoDBA is Ranger enhanced, utilizing the partition boundary keys provided by CarrScott Software’s Escort Ranger product. Each utility can be run from a TACL prompt, as an obey file, or a Netbatch scheduled job via TACL.  AutoDBA is comprised of the following modules…

               

ADDPART*

 A utility to automatically add new partitions and determines disk & first key values.

AUTODCOM

Runs DCOM for a set of disks, 10 most fragmented, 16 least free space, etc.

AUTORELOAD

 Reads edit file for day/date of month and invokes MRELOAD for each day’s reloads.

AUTOSIZE

Resizes Enscribe and SQL/MP files by calculating extent sizes from used space.

DISKTRAK  

 Tracks disk capacity over time for capacity planning and trend analysis.

FILETRAK  

 Tracks file size growth for capacity planning and histograms, stores in a SQL/MP table.

MRELOAD   

 Multiple Reload - FUP RELOADs files matching a wildcard fileset.

OBEYFORM*

 A SQL/MP Reverse Engineering Tool for DBAs, SEs, & Architects.

PARALLEL*

A powerful utility to simplify parallel obey file processing.

PI

 Partition Info, a tool to list, count, sort, and summarizes files and execute command against.

PTRA      

 A Parallel Tandem Reload Analyzer utility, for counts, slack, block info and more.

REBAL     

 Stop/Restarts SMF VDP Processes failed over after a CPU reload.

REPART*

 A Parallel Load Utility to Re-Partition SQL/Enscribe tables.

SQLRECOMP

Runs SQLCOMP for invalid programs. Used by ADDPART/REPART.

 NOTE:  Modules with an asterisk (*) are Ranger-Enhanced, providing the maximum benefits of parallelism.

        In addition, the following reporting utilities are also included…

ADDVDPS

Automated ADD DISK commands in SCF to create many VDPs under SMF

ALLRELOADS

Provides details for all FUP RELOADS currently running.

CACHSTAT

Provides line-by-line disk cache statistics.

CHECKDUMPS

TMF utility to search for lingering Online Dumps.

LISTVOLS

Lists the SCF config for each physical volume.

NOSTATS

Lists tables in a specific catalog that have STATISTICSTIME = 0.

SMFINFO

Reports SMF Pool, VDP, and Physvol configuration and counts.

SYSSPACE

Reports DSAP information, sorted, summarized, and totaled.

TMFMEDIA

Counts TMF TAPEMEDIA by type (Assigned, Scratched, Bad, etc.)

TMFXREF

Compares TMF Online Tape usage to TAPEMEDIA usage.

 

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