Time, response, performance, workload, and secure data build up to exploding costs. Cut these costs with an innovative real time maintenance solution: The first and only tool now on the market that allows uninterrupted operations of applications while simultaneously insuring the best possible DB2 database maintenance and performance.

RealTimeMaintain uses an unprecedented exploitation of real-time statistics (RTS), combined with IFCID technology and using online utilities to enable dynamic maintenance during online operations. Additionally, RealTimeMaintain works together with all classical maintenance solutions offered by 3rd party vendors.

The objectives and solutions of RealTimeMaintain are blueprinted by a DesignCouncil of DB2 customers and are achieved through the following components, which give customers the most flexible options in solving their real time needs.

RT-ExtentManager:
Guarantees that all objects reach their maximum data set size by monitoring DB2 and automatically altering secondary quantities on the fly. Thus, operation outages are avoided.

RT-InformationCenter:
Provides key performance indicators based on real time traffic reporting of object activity and maintenance history. Reporting is based on the nearly simultaneous change rates as reported by the real time statistics feature.

RT-UtilityManager:
Avoids critical database conditions by performing immediate reaction to maintenance needs through the generation, execution, and monitoring of online REORG, COPY, RUNSTATS. Using the RTS feature, all real time maintenance is flexibly controlled through thresholds and rule-based execution options under the control of your site-specific job scheduler.