Dave Beulke

Given the object model of Java and the relational model of the database, accessing data properly continues to be difficult for most Java application developers. Over the history of Java development, there have been many attempts within vendor products, interfaces and open source projects to bridge this object to relational data chasm. Many object to [...]

Over the last three years, my clients have shown that multiple frameworks, architectures and programming patterns are usually implemented within the same project. The problem is the poor performance lessons experienced from the application implementation are not fully understood and the performance problems are continued and replicated into the next architecture, framework or pattern. [...]

 
 
When getting my taxes ready every year, I review the previous year’s activity. Reviewing 2008 has shown that the majority of my consulting was spent fixing and tuning Java based DB2 systems. This is not a big surprise since the trend and majority of my clients over the last three years have had Java performance [...]

Make sure that the interface with CICS works well

Validate the settings between your CICS transaction configurations. Make sure the maximum workload from one TOR, AOR or DOR is not overwhelming another CICS processing partner.
If your system is heavily dependent on CICS transactions:

Make sure that you are reviewing the CICS Statistics DB2 Connections reports on a [...]