by Robert | Sep 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
About 15 years ago, I posted to the blog I maintained while working as an independent consultant (prior to rejoining IBM in 2010) an entry in which I named GETPAGEs the most important factor with regard to the CPU consumption of a Db2 for z/OS application...
by Robert | Aug 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
"Data fabric" is an increasingly hot topic in IT circles, and with good reason - an effectively implemented data fabric can deliver significant dividends by enabling an organization to get more value from its data assets. Db2 for z/OS people should have some...
by Robert | Jul 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
The distributed data facility (aka DDF) is the component of Db2 for z/OS that enables data access by applications that connect to Db2 via TCP/IP communication links. DDF has been around for over 30 years, but especially during the past 10 years or so DDF workloads...
by Robert | Jun 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Last month, I posted to this blog an entry on the long-awaited capability to migrate tables, in an online way, from a multi-table segmented or simple table space to multiple single-table partition-by-growth table spaces (a capability delivered with function level 508...
by Robert | May 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Back in 2014, I posted an entry to this blog on the topic of getting to universal table spaces from non-universal table spaces. In that entry, I noted that there was an online path (ALTER followed by online REORG) for getting from a "classic" partitioned table space...
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