Database Administration Solutions for Distributed RDBMS
Heterogeneous Database Administration
Unicenter Database Administration for Distributed RDBMS provides the database and
application management tools necessary for ensuring the availability and performance of your
eBusiness. The solution’s superior functionality simplifies the management of increasingly
diverse and complex eBusiness systems that connect vendors, customers, and suppliers on a
business-to-business or business-to-customer level. By automating all the critical functions of
application and database management, Unicenter Database Administration for Distributed
RDBMS delivers resource optimization and superior performance. The solution suite leverages
the Unicenter TNG Framework, providing a broad range of operating system, database,
messaging, and application coverage with unprecedented capabilities and a common look and
feel. From a single point of control, administrators can monitor and optimize performance,
automatically administer and manage databases, and predict and prevent potential problems
before they occur. Built-in Knowledge Agents provide automated, intelligent, and proactive
capabilities such as event correlation and automated responses for maximum efficiency and
control. All these features provide your organization with true business value for your
eBusiness objectives.
Streamline Database Administration
Unicenter Database Administration is an enterprise level, client/server tool that manages
heterogeneous RDBMS’s — DB2 for OS/390, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, and Microsoft SQL
Server — across multiple platforms in distributed environments. It enables you to access all
your databases from a single point of control, make changes, and send those changes to any
database in the enterprise. Unicenter Database Administration offloads complex databaseintensive tasks to faster, more powerful servers for execution, freeing your workstation for
other tasks and reducing network contention. Agents on each server handle impact analysis
and process your changes. Data is automatically unloaded and reloaded during complex
database changes.
The management console provides an interface that gives different relational database
management systems a common look and feel. The result is quicker, higher-quality
implementation and greater productivity. The point-and-click GUI interface helps you
automate and speed through your daily administrative tasks.
Unicenter Database Administration shortens the learning curve on unfamiliar databases and
increases productivity by generalizing each DBA's experience and leveraging it throughout the
enterprise.
Simplify Migrations Across the Enterprise
With Unicenter Database Administration, you gain unequaled flexibility in database migrations,
both large and small. You can replicate an entire database with all its dependencies, triggers,
procedures, and security or move a partial schema (e.g., tables and indexes only). Or you can
copy a database from one server to another. You can also decide whether or not to preserve
referential integrity. Or set up a group of changes as an alteration strategy, and then
implement all the changes at the same time. The job scheduler allows you to deploy strategies
online or schedule them to be run automatically at a convenient time, on a server-by-server
basis.
Unicenter Database Administration allows administrators to manage even the most detailed
aspects of their databases, across the enterprise.
Compare and Synchronize Relational Database Structures
The Compare Option enables you to compare and synchronize relational database structures,
including dependent structures such as indexes, views, synonyms, and aliases. It allows you to
compare database object structures on the same or on different RDBMS’s, both local and
remote.
The Compare option is particularly useful in moving an application from a test environment to
a production environment, and in implementing change requests. For example, when
developers create or modify an application using some existing objects and some new objects,
the new objects need to be added to the production databases and the existing objects may
need to be changed. Enterprise Compare merges the new and existing object definitions.