Software Products Overview
Database Integrity Tools for the iSeries (DBiTools) are a suite of software products from
DBiTools.com. These tools operate as an integrated tool set library or stand alone products.
DBiTools address issues found in IT departments both large and small.
- Difficulties in understanding complex business rules and intra-related data
- Management assumes data integrity but very few compliance metrics
- Few iSeries shops use referential integrity to enforce data relationships
- Orphan records are tip of the iceberg with many possible points of failure
- Not possible to measure compliance without external definition of rules
- Most rules are buried inside application programs and not readily accessible
- Few proactive controls in place to locate or measure non compliant data
- End users are primary means for discovering non compliant data
- Many (if not most) application related issues are due to non compliant data
- Controlling multiple database environments and keeping them in sync
- Controlling test environment, test scenarios and debugging tools
- Controlling impact of database changes
- Controlling object-source synchronization
- The need to get more done in less time at higher quality
Features found in dynamic SQL tools:
SQLDBi - SQLJOBi - WRKRCDi
- Quickly access data from command line and CL programs
- Ease of inserting and supplying variables into these SQL statements
- Excellent security and performance functionality, includes query governor controls
- Log files and audit trails with record counts and timings
- Extraordinary ability to manipulate data with built in protections
- SQL minimizes file level check issues verses using RPG alternatives
- Capabilities far beyond Query/400 and SQL/400