http://davebeulke.com Your Database Expert Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:55:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New APARs Bring Features into V8 and V9 NOW!   Some of the new tablespace partitioning choices and features in DB2 Version 8 and now DB2 Version 9 for z/OS that I talked about last week are getting extra enhancements.  During the recent IBM System Z Summit road show that was in ... http://davebeulke.com/?p=615 DB2 V9 Tablespace and Partitioning Choices Some of the new tablespace partitioning choices and features in DB2 Version 8 and Version 9 for z/OS are making everyone realize there are a number of table design choices to fit any application access type. In DB2 V8, the first of the tablespace definition partitioning ... http://davebeulke.com/?p=609 No Locking Issues within DB2 Some of the new performance features in DB2 Version 9 for z/OS are built into the software.  To leverage some of these functions and features, system maintenance DBAs and application DBAs need to coordinate their efforts to realize the benefits. A couple of these enhancements that are ... http://davebeulke.com/?p=602 Hi Everyone, Another great year of DB2 education and conferences are ahead of us.  To stay up with the latest news please feel free to connect with me through my Linked in account (LinkedIn-Dave_Beulke). Also join the Linked in main IDUG group and the others associated with the various IDUG conferences. The main ... http://davebeulke.com/?p=596 CLONE Tables As I have talked about in the previous weeks, DB2 Version 9 for z/OS has over 50+ great new performance features. Many of these features can really benefit your standard application performance; improve application response time and overall availability of your systems and data. Another one of the great features ... http://davebeulke.com/?p=592 Lucky 13 -Making Buffer Pool Changes with WLM With all those year-end jobs running and the system already at 100% utilization there are not too many options for getting things to run faster. In DB2 Version 9, one of the new features that can be leveraged to make things run faster is ... http://davebeulke.com/?p=587 Happy Holidays – Three Cheers for Online Reorgs! Given the snowstorm and the extra time in airports, I thought it was perfect time to do a blog entry.  In the early releases of DB2, we had to work the holidays to do the Reorgs because that was the only time during ... http://davebeulke.com/?p=582 While talking with clients and friends at the recent conferences, I noticed that everyone seemed to like the blog entries I’ve done about the performance features of DB2 v9 for z/OS. Some have even implemented some of the features previously mentioned and have already reduced their costs and overall ... http://davebeulke.com/?p=579 Recently conferences were all abuzz with demonstrations of cloud computing and wonderful vendors touting its spectacular functions and features. While I was impressed by the technology, the flexibility of resources, the unlimited performance potential and the pay for what you use ideas, the cloud solution is surrounded by incredible ... http://davebeulke.com/?p=574 Recently working with a client’s SOA environment showed several interesting performance issues. One performance issue that was quite stunning was the large number of connections that the .Net and Java application were making to DB2 and other systems. Researching the system and application further uncovered a wide disparity ... http://davebeulke.com/?p=571