Performing Db2 maintenance activities is essential for ensuring the respect of SLAs. Maintenance activities are critical for performance, recoverability and system resources. But every maintenance operation also has a cost in terms of CPU and I/O. Knowing or being able to evaluate the impact is essential to determine the optimum time for performing maintenance operations and to get a clear advantage in application performance and operational costs. Intelligent automation allows you to focus your efforts where they matter most: innovation, performance and availability of your critical data assets.