move a tablespace (sms containers) to different location

[stefan.albert]

Hi folks,
we have 3 instances where a table space (good old SMS) lives in the
wrong directory.
Normally I simply would create a new one and do a INSERT ... SELECT
for all tables (or a load ... from cursor). But we have different
tables in the table space and I want to use the same "script" for all
instances.
So I had a look at db2relocate, which should do the trick. I have the
following plan to do this:
0) backup -- always good
1) quiesce tablespace for table ONE.OF_THEM exclusive
2) cp -p OLD_CONT_DIRs NEW_CONT_DIRs
3) rename OLD_CONT_DIRs
4) db2relocate -f reloc.cfg
5) quiesce tablespace for table ONE.OF_THEM reset

Does anybody have any experience with this? Or any further
suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Stefan

[stefan.albert]

On Mar 18, 10:26*am, "stefan.albert" <[e-mail]:

Hi folks,
we have 3 instances where a table space (good old SMS) lives in the
wrong directory.
Normally I simply would create a new one and do a INSERT ... SELECT
for all tables (or a load ... from cursor). But we have different
tables in the table space and I want to use the same "script" for all
instances.
So I had a look at db2relocate, which should do the trick. I have the
following plan to do this:
0) backup -- always good
1) quiesce tablespace for table ONE.OF_THEM exclusive
2) cp -p OLD_CONT_DIRs NEW_CONT_DIRs
3) rename OLD_CONT_DIRs
4) db2relocate -f reloc.cfg
5) quiesce tablespace for table ONE.OF_THEM reset

Does anybody have any experience with this? Or any further
suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Stefan

Here my results :

Step 2) failed - because DB2 holds a lock on the files.
Step 1) db2stop (force)
Step 5) db2start

The file reloc.cfg defines the old and new locations.

It worked fine for me.