What is Reorg DB2?

To keep it simple: REORG is a database operation that is executed in DB2 to reorganize the table spaces or index spaces. The purpose of the reorganization is data clustering. This operation reconstructs the data in the table spaces or index spaces, so that the data is unfragmented and physically continuous.

What is online reorg in DB2?

Online Reorg is an availability enhancement to DB2 introduced in DB2 Version 5. It increases availability of a tablespace and/or index while it is being reorganised. The reorganisation of an object necessarily consists of the destruction of an object and its rebuilding in reorganised form.

What is the default database in DB2?

All databases are created with the default storage group “IBMSTOGROUP”, which is created at the time of creating an instance. In DB2, all the database tables are stored in “tablespace”, which use their respective storage groups.

What is offline reorg in DB2?

reorg table employee You can reorganize a table using a specific temporary table space. For example: reorg table employee use mytemp You can reorganize a table and have the rows reordered according to a specific index.

How do you run a Reorgchk?

Procedure

Log in with the directory server instance owner credentials.
Connect to the database. db2 connect to ldapdb2.
Run the reorgchk command. db2 reorgchk update statistics on table all.
To generate an output file with the database statistics, run the reorgchk command and redirect the output to a file.

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What is Runstats DB2?

RUNSTATS is a DB2 utility that scans a table space or indexes to gather information about space utilization and index efficiency. The information gathered is stored in the DB2 system tables and used by the SQL optimizer to select the best access paths during the bind process.