| By Dave Beulke, on February 2nd, 2010 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 . . . → Read More: DB2 Performance Features in DB2 V9 for z/OS — Part 17 By Dave Beulke, on January 26th, 2010 DB2 V9 Tablespace and Partitioning ChoicesSome 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 . . . → Read More: DB2 Performance Features in DB2 V9 for z/OS — Part 16 By Dave Beulke, on January 19th, 2010 No Locking Issues within DB2Some of the new DB2 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 . . . → Read More: DB2 Performance Features in DB2 V9 for z/OS — Part 15 By Dave Beulke, on January 11th, 2010 CLONE TablesAs I have talked about in the previous weeks, DB2 Version 9 for z/OS has over 50+ great new DB2 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 . . . → Read More: DB2 Performance Features in DB2 V9 for z/OS — Part 14 By Dave Beulke, on January 5th, 2010 Lucky 13 -Making Buffer Pool Changes with WLMWith all those year-end jobs running and the system already at 100% utilization there are not too many options for improving DB2 performance and getting things to run faster. In DB2 Version 9, one of the new features that can be leveraged to improve DB2 . . . → Read More: DB2 Performance Features in DB2 V9 for z/OS — Part 13 By Dave Beulke, on December 22nd, 2009 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 the year . . . → Read More: DB2 Performance Features in DB2 V9 for z/OS — Part 12 By Dave Beulke, on December 3rd, 2009 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 DB2 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 processing elapsed times. So, with . . . → Read More: DB2 Performance Features in DB2 V9 for z/OS — Part 11 By Dave Beulke, on August 25th, 2009 As I talked about in the previous weeks, DB2 Version 9 for z/OS has over 50+ great new DB2 performance features. Many of these features can really benefit your standard DBA operations; improve application performance and overall availability of your systems and data. Another one of the enhancements with DB2 Version 9 for z/OS that . . . → Read More: DB2 Performance Features in DB2 V9 for z/OS — Part 7 By Dave Beulke, on July 21st, 2009 As I talked about last week, DB2 Version 9 for z/OS has over 50+ great new performance features. Many of these really stand out and in the coming weeks I will write about some that can really help you reduce your CPU demand on your system and application environments. One of the new features, selecting . . . → Read More: Performance Features in DB2 V9 for z/OS — Part 2 By Dave Beulke, on June 17th, 2009 As each version of DB2 for z/OS comes out there are always the projects that need justification for going to the next DB2 version. The huge number of DB2 performance features in DB2 Version 9 for z/OS should make your summer of 2009 your time to get to the new release. This large number of . . . → Read More: DB2 Performance Features in DB2 V9 for z/OS — Part 1 | |