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DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 Performance Topics - IBM Redbooks

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Chapter 6. Utilities<br />

The utilities have all been enhanced to support all other major enhancements that <strong>DB2</strong> V8<br />

has introduced. For instance, extensive updates have been required to provide support <strong>for</strong><br />

long names, Unicode, 64-bit addressing, the new data partitioning techniques, online schema<br />

evolution, and system point-in-time recovery. Refer to “Related publications” on page 425 <strong>for</strong><br />

details.<br />

In this chapter we concentrate on availability and per<strong>for</strong>mance aspects of V8 utilities:<br />

► Online CHECK INDEX: CHECK INDEX with option SHRLEVEL CHANGE increases<br />

availability and satisfies the requirement of customers who cannot af<strong>for</strong>d the application<br />

outage. Its also dramatically cuts down elapsed time due to parallel processing and usage<br />

of FlashCopy V2.<br />

► LOAD and REORG: With <strong>DB2</strong> V8, LOAD and REORG utilities have the option<br />

SORTKEYS as a default, this provides per<strong>for</strong>mance improvement <strong>for</strong> multiple index key<br />

sort.<br />

► LOAD and UNLOAD delimited input and output: This usability and <strong>DB2</strong> family<br />

compliance enhancement makes it much easier to move data into <strong>DB2</strong> with good<br />

per<strong>for</strong>mance.<br />

► RUNSTATS enhancements: The RUNSTATS utility adds the new functionality of<br />

calculating the frequencies <strong>for</strong> non-indexed columns. It updates <strong>DB2</strong> catalog tables and<br />

leads to better access path selection <strong>for</strong> queries.<br />

► Cross Loader: This functionality enables you to use a single LOAD job to transfer data<br />

from one location to another location or from one table to another table at the same<br />

location. A new PTF <strong>for</strong> V7 and V8 provides a large per<strong>for</strong>mance boost to cross loader<br />

per<strong>for</strong>mance.<br />

► For the new BACKUP and RESTORE SYSTEM utilities, introduced to ease the<br />

implementation of point-in-time recovery, see 5.1, “System level point-in-time recovery” on<br />

page 218.<br />

All these functions are available in CM except <strong>for</strong> BACKUP and RESTORE SYSTEM.<br />

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