Many of my readers are probably aware of IBM redbooks , but for those who are not, here is a quick introduction to a valuable free technical...

Think your enterprise application is running slow because of "aging hardware" or "insufficient CPU"? Think again. In my ...

  If I had to identify a single most overlooked Db2 performance metric, it would be GETPAGEs . Many organizations focus on CPU utilization, ...

One of the primary goals of Db2 for z/OS locking is to maximize concurrency while maintaining data integrity. In a perfect world, every appl...

As Db2 DBAs we often find ourselves chasing two elusive targets: speed and capacity. We want our systems to handle everything all at once, a...