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

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► Horizontal growth is achieved by clustering SIMPs with a single copy of the<br />

database (also known as parallel operation).<br />

► Parallel Sysplex provides horizontal growth: 1–32 engines x 32 CECs.<br />

► <strong>DB2</strong> Data Sharing is the only <strong>SAP</strong>-certified generally available (GA) clustered<br />

DBMS. <strong>DB2</strong> Data Sharing has been certified since 1997.<br />

► <strong>DB2</strong> Data Sharing has been in use in customer <strong>SAP</strong> environments since<br />

1997.<br />

► 64-bit real System z storage is in use by many <strong>SAP</strong> customers. z/<strong>OS</strong> sustains<br />

a higher I/O rate than other plat<strong>for</strong>ms with 6–10 K I/Os/sec per I/O controller.<br />

► <strong>DB2</strong> v9.1 delivers 64-bit virtual storage, which allows more data in memory<br />

and the easing of many system constraints related to addressability.<br />

► Improved database-intensive per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />

Application servers running under z/<strong>OS</strong> provide data transfer <strong>using</strong><br />

cross-memory services. Linux® application servers on System z can use <strong>IBM</strong><br />

unique hipersockets <strong>for</strong> application server-to-database server<br />

communications.<br />

► Sysplex with Coupling Facility.<br />

► IO bandwidth, data in memory.<br />

Large database manageability<br />

System z provides large database manageability:<br />

► Multi-terabyte databases with hardware compression.<br />

► Online backup and reorganizations.<br />

► Storage technology (FlashCopy®, Snapshot).<br />

► Self-tuning DASD — PAV, multiple allegiance.<br />

► Leverage and protect investment.<br />

► Multiple LPARs and priority schemes:<br />

– <strong>DB2</strong> hardware data compression is unique, and affects both per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />

and cost.<br />

– UNIX and Windows solutions cannot af<strong>for</strong>d the overhead of software<br />

compression.<br />

– On average, UNIX and Windows require 50% more disk than <strong>DB2</strong> 9 <strong>for</strong><br />

z/<strong>OS</strong>.<br />

– Customers typically have 4 to 10 copies of their production database,<br />

which quickly grows into multi-terabyte size.<br />

– z/<strong>OS</strong> and Linux application servers.<br />

6 <strong>Best</strong> <strong>Practices</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> <strong>using</strong> <strong>DB2</strong> 9 <strong>for</strong> z/<strong>OS</strong>

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