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

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Chapter 4. Benefits of <strong>DB2</strong> 9 <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong><br />

This chapter describes and discusses the benefits and new features of <strong>DB2</strong> 9 <strong>for</strong><br />

z/<strong>OS</strong> that are most relevant to <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong>. Here we discuss the new dynamic index<br />

ANDing, the new histogram statistics, the parallelism enhancements, and some<br />

further <strong>BI</strong> relevant <strong>DB2</strong> 9 features. We do not discuss XML, backup and recovery<br />

enhancements, <strong>OS</strong>C, LOB improvements, Online REORG enhancements,<br />

Universal tablespaces, Clone table support, MERGE statement, or Index<br />

Compression. All of these are very important <strong>DB2</strong> 9 <strong>for</strong> z/<strong>OS</strong> enhancements and<br />

new features and have no extra <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> specific usage. They are a benefit to<br />

every <strong>SAP</strong> system, whether it is NetWeaver or <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong>.<br />

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