SAP has released an interesting new white paper exploring the benefits that DB2 11 for z/OS brings to today's mission-critical SAP solutions. Authors Johannes Schuetzner (IBM) and Bernd Kohler (SAP) cover a variety of topics from an SAP perspective, including performance and scalability,...
IBM has just released a very interesting new paper, looking at the performance improvements delivered by DB2 11 for z/OS within an SAP application environment. The paper can be downloaded from IBM using this link: IBM zEnterprise System: DB2 11 for z/OS with SAP® Performance Report Here's...
Introduction Each new release of DB2 brings changes to the utilities suite, and new release DB2 11 is no exception. The importance of these changes can have a big impact on the work of a DBA. The changes and new options should be well understood and choices have to be made for your...
Introduction Throughout the history of DB2 on z/OS, DB2 development has continuously improved the product so that larger quantities of data can be maintained in a single table. Nonetheless, there is certainly value in separating data that is still subject to change or referenced very...
October 2013 eBulletin: DB2 11 Coverage
October eBulletin DB2 11 Coverage.pdf
Potential SQL Performance Improvements in DB2 11 for z/OS By Daniel L Luksetich, IDUG DB2 11 White Paper Editorial Committee As with any new release of DB2 for z/OS there comes a host of SQL performance improvements. Some of these you get straight away, some with a bind or next prepare...
DB2 11 for z/OS DPSI Performance Improvements By Toine Michielse, IDUG DB2 11 White Paper Editorial Committee Introduction With large tablespaces, well designed NPIs are a blessing to improve the performance and cost of queries against those tables. At the same time, they pose a...
DB2 11 for z/OS XML Features – The Hierarchy Strikes Back By Isaac Yassin, IDUG DB2 11 White Paper Editorial Committee Within few months we’ll have DB2 for z/OS next incarnation – the 11 th in number (Sequoia – DB2 11). A group of dedicated DB2 bigots J have embarked on the mission to...