CA Floats Out Raft of RDBMS Tools
Tools integrate with CA's Unicenter Database Managment Console.
With the update of a suite of database management tools, Computer Associates International Inc. has ensured that the tools are integrated with the same interface to make DBAs' jobs easier. The new tools integrate with CA's Unicenter Database Management Console.
The five tools—Unicenter DBA v5.2, Unicenter Enterprise DBA v5.2, Unicenter Database Analyzer v2.2, Unicenter TSreorg v3.1, and Unicenter Fast Unload v4.1—all plug into the Database Management Console. The console ships with each product, so they can serve as standalone tools.
The modular approach to these products reflects CA's new approach to Unicenter that came last year with Unicenter 3.0, according to Richard Bolesta, brand manager for database management at CA. In the past, Unicenter customers bought the overall enterprise management framework, then modules to plug in, for handling various tasks. Unicenter products are now available as discrete components, which can integrate together to form a whole.
"Each product is now a Unicenter product," Bolesta says. Some products were sold solely as standalone products for client installations, while others were designed for the old Unicenter framework. Now a DBA has a full suite of tools operating with Unicenter.
Unicenter DBA v5.2 is a client-based product for building databases based on DB2, Sybase, Oracle and others. The Enterprise edition is a server-side product with more scalability, but today only serves Oracle installations.