Application Hosting: AIX Database

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Part 3: AIX Databases

The database options available for AIX are: DB2/UDB Oracle Informix (containment) Cache (containment)

AIX Platform

Several database systems are available as add-on components to customers that use the Application Hosting service on a AIX platform. Procurement, installation, provisioning, and maintenance are included as part of this add-on component.

AIX Platform - Database Administration

The DTS provides database administration for the available AIX platform database systems as an add-on to the standard Application Hosting service.

AIX DBMS

These are the DTS DBMS service offerings and funtional responsibilites for database administration, database software aquisition, and database software administration.

*Additional costs may be incurred beyond standard DTS rate.

Database Administration	DB2/UDB	Oracle
Monitor and Fine tune DBMS software	DTS	Shared
Conduct System-level administration	DTS	DTS
Define database availability requirements	Customer	Customer
Establish databse change management procedures	Customer	Customer
Construct Customer database	Shared	DTS
Create and maintain database objects	Customer	Customer
Maintain database dictionaries	Customer	Customer
Document physical database implementation	Customer	Customer
Load data into the database	Customer	Customer
Provide customer with access rights to define new database users	DTS	DTS
Define new database users	Customer	Shared
Perform capacity planning	Shared	Shared
Delete obsolete backup and log files	Customer	DTS
Conduct DBMS problem identification and resolution	DTS	Shared
Perform application design, development, testing, migration and maintenance	Customer	Customer
Perform file level maintenance at the test and development levels	Customer	Customer
Perform file level maintenance of production data	Customer	Customer
Provide support for DBMS residing outside of the Data Center	N/A	Customer
Software Aquisition	- - - - - -	- - - - - -
Provide contract and licensing for DBMS software	DTS	Shared
Submit service request for DBMS	Customer	Customer
Software Administration	- - - - - -	- - - - - -
Liason between customer and vendor for technical DBMS issues	DTS	Shared
Maintain DBMS software/configurations	DTS	DTS
Keep statistics current by running necessary utilities	Customer	Customer
Install fixes/patches on database server	DTS	DTS
Perform DBMS vesion migrations an upgrades	DTS	DTS
Maintain and support DTS-provided tools on attached clients	DTS	N/A
Maintain database administration tools	DTS	DTS
Maintain application development tools on DTS platforms	Shared	Customer
Maintain application development tools running on attached clients	Customer	Customer
Test new maintenance and software release at user and application levels	Customer	Customer