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DB2 Magazine E-NewsletterNovember 18, 2004
DB2 Magazine Email Newsletter
****SPONSOR: BMC Software Register for a DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 Reference Guide, compliments of BMC Software. This 400+ page guide covers DB2 commands, SQL control statements, catalog tables, scalar functions, system commands and more. Register for your copy now! ***************************** 1. ASKED AND ANSWERED * I read your article regarding snapshot and event monitoring and am looking for more information. Once we take a snapshot, I see a lot of information. Where can I find documentation that will help me understand what it all means? --Roger E. Sanders points the way. * I'm trying to figure out how to configure DB2 and z/OS to minimize module reloads in the WLM-managed stored procedures address spaces (SPAS). In your excellent article "Stored Procedures Go Mainstream," --Learn from Robert Catterall?s experience. * We are in the process of implementing the concepts in your column "Do You MQ" for our batch processing, but our Web transactions aren't ready for this approach yet. As an interim solution, we've planned to use the DB2 Governor utility, which supposedly would let us assign higher priority for online requests and lower priority for batch. What do you think of this approach? --Get Robert Catterall?s opinion. 2. IBM NEWS * DB2 UDB Blazes Past Previous TPC-C Benchmarks IBM today published a record-breaking TPC-C** benchmark result of 3,210,540 tpmC at a price/performance of $5.19/tpmC, demonstrating 2.7 times better performance than Oracle RAC, the closest competitor. This new DB2 result leads the previous record by a margin wider than the top results of Oracle and Microsoft, the next closest competitors, combined. To get this enormous scalability, IBM used DB2 UDB v.8.2, a 64-processor eServer p595 server, the AIX operating system, and TotalStorage FASt900 storage. TPC-C is an industry standard benchmark test that measures performance and price/performance of systems in an on-line transaction processing setting. The benchmark simulated 2.56 million users of the database, which contained more than 100 billion rows. The system managed 240TBs of storage and 2TBs of random access memory. --Read about this benchmark. **TPC Benchmark, TPC-C, tpmC are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council. For further TPC-related information, please see Results current as of November 18, 2004. DB2 UDB on IBM eServer p595 (64-way Power5 1.9GHz): 3,210,540 tpmC @ $5.19/tpmC available: May 15, 2005 * Webcast: IBM Software Development Platform for Linux December 07, 11 a.m. eastern daylight time (EDT) IBM last month announced new products and major enhancements, code-named Atlantic, to the core solutions from Rational software in the IBM Software Development Platform. This Web session highlights the Linux offerings from IBM Rational that are designed for developers, testers, and management teams. --Learn more or register. * New Version: IBM Autonomic Computing Toolkit The IBM Autonomic Computing toolkit helps developers build autonomic capability into their applications. The kit includes proven technology and tools, based on industry standards, for installing, administering, correlating, and correcting systems and reducing the cost and time to implement solutions. --Read toolkit details. * Personal Training from IBM ****SPONSOR: BLUEPHOENIX SOLUTIONS ***************************** 3. DB2 MAGAZINE TRIVIA CONTEST * In August, IBM donated the source code for the Cloudscape embedded database to the Apache Software Foundation, which will make the code available to developers as Apache Derby. How many lines of code did the IBM donation comprise? If you answer the question correctly, your name may be the one drawn from the trivia contest ?hat? next month for the $100 American Express Gift Cheque. (Congratulations to S. Peel of Grand Rapids, MI, this month?s winner.) --Try the contest. --Find the answer. 4. SKILLS AND CERTIFICATION NEWS * New DB2 Tools Courses --Find out more or download these courses. * IBM Upgrade Services for DB2 UDB --Get a detailed description of this service. * New DB2 Course Material from the IBM Scholars Program The IBM Academic Initiative/Scholars Program is designed to provide faculty and researchers at higher education institutions worldwide with a wealth of academic offerings, research offerings as well as resources and benefits from IBM. New IBM courses can augment existing database management curriculum. Available courses include Universal Database Programming Fundamentals, Universal Database Advanced Programming, DB2 SQL for Experienced Users, and Introduction to DB2 Universal Database. --Learn more about these courses. 5. AT THE BOOKSTORE * DB2 SQL PL: Essential Guide for DB2 UDB on Linux, Unix, Windows, i5/OS, and z/OS, 2nd Edition by Zamil Janmohamed et al. --Find out more about this book. 6. NEW E-BOOK: BRIDGING THE ISLANDS OF INFORMATION * Now you can connect Informix data with other corporate information. --Read the e-book. 7. NOW PLAYING AT THE DEVELOPERWORKS DB2 DOMAIN * Build Web-Based Reports for Business Analysis with DB2 Alphablox and * ETL Solutions for DB2 UDB * DB2 Information Integrator planning and sizing Plan a Web Service Business Integration Engagement
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