Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS - IBM Redbooks

Thanks to these authors from the Project Jupiter team for documenting the
results of their testing in Chapter 11 and Appendix D:
Leticia Cruz works in the IBM Systems z Benchmark Center, Poughkeepsie,
New York.
Veng Ly works in the IBM SAP/R3 Performance Test group in Poughkeepsie,
New York.
Seewah Chan works in the IBM Systems Development SAP Performance group
in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Howard Poole works in the IBM SAP/R3 Performance Test group in
Poughkeepsie.
Rick Burns works for Wintercorp, which is based in Waltham.
Chris Williams works in the IBM Systems z Benchmark Center in
Poughkeepsie, New York.
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Lindy Crawford joined IBM in South Africa in 2005 and
has six years of experience in SAP Basis Support. Her
current role includes providing SAP Basis Support for
local customers, which includes problem analysis and
troubleshooting, installations, and upgrades. In addition,
she is an IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2
Universal Database V8.1, IBM Certified Specialist -
System p, AIX® System Support and an IBM
Certified Deployment Professional - TSM 5.3.
Wilfried Allé started as an IT Analyst and Programmer in
an Austrian oil and gas company (OMV-AG) in 1972. He
is an Advisory Programmer in PL/1 and Assembler, as
well as in online programming (CICS®, VSAM, and
IMS-DB). In 1987 he led his team to SAP’s standard
software R/2 on CICS and IMS-DB. He has trained
hundreds of his colleagues in SAP fundamentals. Wilfried
has also served as an IT lecturer in a high school setting.
Currently, he works as a SAP Consultant for IBM Premier
Business Partner IT-Systeme und Consulting GmbH in Vienna, Austria, on a
project basis.