How to BIND all the packages in a collection COLLA to a plan PLANA?

The package is a database object which contains the SQL statements from DBRM in a DB2-optimized form.

The collection is a group of packages using which we can segregate the DB2 packages belonging to the different applications. For example, in a production environment for a Telecom company, we can have different collections for order handling, billing and customer service.

The package or group of packages (collections) are binded into a plan. A plan is an executable object which contains the DB2 access paths of all the SQL queries within it. We can bind a package into a plan directly or we can first generate a collection using package(s) and then bind it to a plan.

Using the below JCL step we can directly bind all the packages inside a collection using a single BIND command.

//BIND EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01
//STEPLIB DD DSN=DIS.TEST.LOADLIB,DISP=SHR
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSIN DD *
DSN SYSTEM(TB3)
BIND PLAN(PLANA) -
PKLIST(COLLA.*) -
/*

We can use BIND PLAN and PKLIST parameters for this purpose. The argument COLLA.* will take into account all the packages in collection COLLA and bind it to plan PLAN A.