You may want to consider:

1. Deleting one or more demonstration PDBs.

   At some sites, copies of the demonstration PDBs are used for practice or testing; for instance, testing what a new report would look like when the production PDB does not have enough data to generate a report that looks good. At some sites a demonstration PDB is used when the active PDB must be some other PDB than the one that is to be used. (Some operations cannot run on the active PDB.) At other sites, one or more of the demonstration PDBs are never used. You can delete one or more of these PDBs if you have no need for them.

   In case you change your mind later, back up the PDB that you will delete.

   To delete the PDB, follow this path from the IT Service Vision main menu:

   MVS	PDB Adminstration -> Manage PDBs/Switch PDB -> select the PDB -> ItemActions -> Delete PDB -> OK -> File -> End
   UNIX	Adminstration -> Manage PDBs -> select the PDB -> right mouse click -> Delete PDB -> Yes -> OK
   WNT	Adminstration -> Manage PDBs -> select the PDB -> right mouse click -> Delete PDB -> Yes -> OK

2. Combining one or more PDBs.

   You may have one or more PDBs for data from one collector and also one or more PDBs for data from other collectors.

   There are advantages to having data from different collectors in different PDBs:

   • You can back up, process, reduce, and report on the data in parallel.
     
     
   • You are less likely to run into file size problems (UNIX has a 2-gigabyte filesize limitation).
     
     
   • It may be easier to handle sites with different time zones.
     
     
   • It may be easier to handle multiple users needing update access at the same time.
     
     
   • It may be easier to manage space.

   There are also advantages to having data from different collectors in the same PDB:

   • If you want to generate a report on data in more than one table, it is more convenient to have the tables in the same PDB.
     
     
   • If you want to generate reports interactively, you can work with one PDB.

   You can copy tables (including the data in the tables) into a combined PDB at any time that using the same PDB would be convenient. You can use the same method to copy tables (including the data) into separate PDBs at any time that using different PDBs would be convenient.

   To combine tables into one PDB:

   1. Decide which PDB to use for the combined PDB.

      You can use an existing PDB or a new one. If you decide to use a new one, you can create it (without tables) by following this path from the main menu:

      MVS	PDB Admin -> Define New PDB -> Specify Location -> type the full pathname of the new PDB -> OK -> OK -> OK -> Goback
      UNIX	Adminstration -> Create PDB - Wizard -> follow wizard except omit table selection
      WNT	Adminstration -> Create PDB - Wizard -> follow wizard except omit table selection

      Note For UNIX and WNT, do not select tables to add. Do request that the new empty PDB become the active PDB.

   2. Change to another PDB as active PDB.

      To list the known PDBs, follow this path from the main menu:

      MVS	PDB Admin -> Manage PDBs/Switch PDB
      UNIX	Adminstration -> Manage PDBs
      WNT	Adminstration -> Manage PDBs

      IT Service Vision displays your list of known PDBs with the name of the active PDB in the header.

      Switch to any other PDB than the PDB that will contain the combination of tables (for instance, switch to a demonstration PDB) as the active PDB.

      MVS	select any other PDB -> ItemActions -> Activate -> OK
      UNIX	select any other PDB -> Activate -> OK
      WNT	select any other PDB -> Activate -> OK

      IT Service Vision re-displays your list of known PDBs and, in the header, names the selected PDB as the active PDB.

   3. Copy tables (including data) to the combined PDB.

      For each PDB that has tables that are to be copied to the combined PDB, follow this path from the list of known PDBs:

      MVS	Actions -> Combine PDBs -> select the right arrow on the From field -> select the PDB from which tables are to be copied -> select the right arrow on the To field -> select the PDB to which tables are to be copied -> select the tables that you want to copy -> Run -> Goback
      UNIX	select the PDB -> right mouse click -> Copy -> specify copy from and to PDB -> OK
      WNT	select the PDB -> right mouse click -> Copy -> specify copy from and to PDB -> OK

      Note: These steps are not capable of or suitable for combining the observations from identically-named tables.

   4. Check that the tables and data are in the combined PDB.

      On the list of known PDBs, activate the combined PDB

      MVS	select the combined PDB -> ItemActions -> Activate -> OK -> File -> End
      UNIX	select the combined PDB -> Activate -> OK
      WNT	select the combined PDB -> Activate -> OK

      Then examine the data:

      MVS	PDB Data -> Examine PDB Data
      UNIX	Administration -> Examine PDB Data
      WNT	Administration -> Examine PDB Data

      The tables that you copied should be listed, along with a count of the number of observations in the specified level.

      If you want to see the data,

      MVS	select a table with non-zero observations -> ItemActions -> Browse Data
      UNIX	select a table with non-zero observations-> right mouse click -> View Data
      WNT	select a table with non-zero observations -> right mouse click -> View Data

      When you finish looking at the data,

      MVS	File -> End -> File -> End
      UNIX	Close -> OK
      WNT	Close -> OK

   5. Change your batch/background job(s) to use the combined PDB.

      See Section 2, Task 4: Set Up Your Production Job.

Additional Advanced Setup Topics:

Archiving and restoring Data in IT Service Vision

Advanced Reporting Techniques (Web based output)

Tips for Working with the %CPDDUTL GENERATE SOURCE Control Statement

For additional platform-specific and collector-specific materials that may be of interest to you, select your platform: