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Performance & Tuning Month
Lightning Fast I/O via zHyperLink and Db2 for z/OS Exploitation – Part 2
Last week we ended with Db2 Performance of zHyperLink Read. Now let’s look at the CPU cost of zHyperLink read. As explained last week, I/O operation is now synchronous to CPU with zHyperLink and SQL processing spins while waiting for the I/O to complete. At the same...
Lightning Fast I/O via zHyperLink and Db2 for z/OS Exploitation
As the size of database and the volume of transactions increase, many of Db2 transactions tend to spend significant amount of wait time in database read and log write I/Os. zHyperLink is introduced to help reduce b2 transaction latency. zHyperLink is a new short...
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