Hi Andrew.
There are different types of administration features in the DBA Cockpit:
- Manual administration, e.g. creating data caches, changing server configuration...
- Automated tasks: e.g. updating table statistics, reorgs
- Tasks that should run at specific intervals: backups, some kinds of reorgs...
New features are delivered with support packages of the SAP_BASIS component.
The scripted tools you are talking about are the third category. There we have added some more actions with SAP_BASIS 7.02 SP16. ATM has been there since the first release on ASE (but there have been enhancements) and is adressing the second category.
Regards,
Jan