Policy Services environment (conditional reorganization example)

Policy Services can evaluate the data collected by an IMS Tools product about a specific database activity, and can provide a response to any events that exceed the threshold limits specified for this data.

Policy Services provides policy-based database management for members of the IMS Tools product family that are enabled to participate in a conditional autonomics environment. All information is stored in and managed by central repositories controlled by IMS Tools Knowledge Base.

IMS Database Reorganization Expert, with Policy Services, can assist the duties of database administration by providing policy-based conditional database reorganization for the databases important to the business. IMS Database Reorganization Expert uses its Smart Reorg utility to coordinate the evaluation of reorganization policies, and to implement an appropriate response to the reaching or exceeding of thresholds specified for the sensor data collected by the tool.

The conditional reorganization job is like a standard IMS Database Reorganization Expert job. The main difference is that the conditional reorganization job, rather than the Database Administrator (DBA), decides whether to reorganize the database.

This diagram shows the components of a sysplex environment that supports conditional reorganization jobs from IMS Database Reorganization Expert using Policy Services and the IMS Tools Knowledge Base repository system. — Figure 1. Example Policy Services sysplex scenario

Refer to the IMS Database Reorganization Expert User's Guide and IMS Online Reorganization Facility User's Guide for full details on how these IMS Tools products use Policy Services to perform conditional database reorganizations.