Special Lawson Tables to Support OS/390 Features

Lawson has created a set of tables, known collectively as the Lawson DBA tables (law_dba_tables), that support IBM DB2 OS/390 features that are not available from the general Lawson database utilities.

These tables are specifically intended for use with partitioning but two of them (law_dba_table) and (law_dba_index) are useful even in non-partitioned systems for such things as assigning each Lawson table to its own database and creating multiple index locations. Special Lawson Tables to Support OS/390 Features