The business value of DB2 UDB for z/OS

We are in a new phase of On Demand Business. Companies must respond to fluctuating market conditions and provide products and services on demand to customers. DB2 for z/OS and IBM eServer technology enable you to maintain your company’s core competencies. They help you to manage global market and co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Bruni, Paolo (Autor)
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	[San Jose, Calif. : IBM Corp., International Technical Support Organization c2005.
Edición:	1st ed
Colección:	IBM redbooks.
Materias:	IBM Database 2. z/OS. Database management. Client/server computing. Business > Data processing.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627098406719

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Front cover
Contents
Notices
Trademarks
Preface
The team that wrote this redbook
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Chapter 1. Evolution of the mainframe
1.1 The evolution of z/Architecture
1.1.1 Lower cost of entry to mainframes
1.1.2 More options in pricing and performance
1.1.3 Leveraging investment in existing applications
1.2 Hardware
1.3 Operating systems
1.3.1 Value of z/OS
1.3.2 Evolution of z/OS
1.3.3 Other mainframe operating systems
1.4 Processor
1.5 Management
1.6 Preparing new mainframers
1.7 2000 through 2005: The era of on demand
Chapter 2. The evolution of DB2 for z/OS
2.1 The evolution of DB2 UDB for z/OS
2.2 DB2 and Parallel Sysplex industry leadership
2.2.1 Extreme availability
2.2.2 Near-linear scalability
2.2.3 Preservation of investment
2.2.4 Controlled enablement of new functionality on version upgrade
2.2.5 Rolling maintenance and new releases without an outage
2.2.6 Ability to fallback
2.2.7 Conclusion
2.3 Summary for DB2
Chapter 3. DB2 synergy with zSeries and z/OS
3.1 The zSeries, z/OS, and DB2 partnership
3.1.1 z/OS highlights
3.1.2 zSeries architecture highlights
3.1.3 DB2 UDB for z/OS
3.2 Parallel Sysplex and data sharing
3.2.1 Shared nothing
3.2.2 Shared disk
3.2.3 Shared data
3.2.4 Advantages of data sharing
3.2.5 Cost benefit
3.2.6 Summary
3.3 Compression
3.4 Security
3.4.1 zSeries security features
3.4.2 DB2 controls
3.4.3 DB2 and multilevel security
3.4.4 Summary
3.5 Encryption
3.5.1 DB2 column level encryption
3.5.2 IBM Data Encryption for IMS and DB2 Databases
3.5.3 Summary
3.6 Sort
3.7 z/OS Unicode Conversion Services
3.8 UNIX System Services
3.9 WorkLoad Manager, Intelligent Resource Director, and VIPA
3.9.1 WorkLoad Manager.
3.9.2 Intelligent Resource Director
3.9.3 Virtual IP addressing
3.9.4 Summary
3.10 Disk storage
3.10.1 ESS
3.10.2 FICON channels
3.10.3 VSAM data striping
3.10.4 Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex
3.10.5 HyperSwap
3.11 zSeries 990
3.12 64-bit virtual storage
3.13 HyperSockets
3.13.1 Specialized processor for Linux
3.14 zSeries Application Assist Processor for Java
3.15 Summary
Chapter 4. Business resiliency
4.1 The DB2 business computing environment
4.2 DB2 for z/OS and zSeries resiliency
4.2.1 Reliability
4.2.2 Availability
4.2.3 Scalability
4.2.4 Manageability and adaptability
4.2.5 Security
4.2.6 Accessibility and extensibility
4.2.7 Summary
Chapter 5. The on demand environment
5.1 z/Architecture adaptation through evolution
5.1.1 Revenue protection and growth
5.1.2 Return on investment
5.1.3 Business resiliency
5.1.4 Security
5.2 Advanced technologies
5.2.1 Open standards
5.2.2 Web services
5.2.3 Service-oriented architecture
5.3 Enhanced application support
5.3.1 WebSphere
5.3.2 DB2 development
5.3.3 IBM Rational
5.3.4 IBM Lotus
5.3.5 Microsoft .Net framework
5.3.6 Independent software vendors and packaged solutions
5.3.7 DB2 utilities
5.4 z/OS.e for workloads for On Demand Business
Chapter 6. Readiness for new workloads
6.1 Background for new workload creation
6.2 Development of new business transaction applications
6.2.1 Prioritizing for new applications
6.2.2 Security for new applications
6.2.3 Ability to accommodate growth
6.2.4 Rapid development of high performance applications
6.3 Enhancement of existing applications
6.3.1 Using utilities instead of developing programs
6.4 Purchasing new software packages
6.4.1 Usability, availability, and scalability
6.4.2 Performance.
6.4.3 Tools and administration
6.5 Acquisition of new companies
6.6 Consolidation
6.6.1 Consolidation via new business acquisition
6.6.2 Server consolidation
6.7 Development or augmentation of BI systems
6.7.1 Preliminary sizing estimate and capacity planning for growth
6.7.2 Data movement into the BI system
6.7.3 Availability
6.7.4 Scalability
6.7.5 Systems management
6.7.6 Parallelism
6.7.7 Query performance and throughput
6.7.8 Database support skills
6.7.9 Conclusions for BI systems on z/OS
6.8 Customer growth
6.9 Requirement for storing new data types
6.10 DB2 Query Management Facility
6.10.1 DB2 QMF components
6.10.2 More on Visionary
6.11 Summary
Chapter 7. Evaluating the cost of your solution
7.1 Total cost of ownership
7.1.1 What is TCO?
7.1.2 Mainframe differentiators
7.2 zSeries and DB2 UDB for z/OS
7.2.1 Mainframe Charter
7.2.2 Hardware
7.2.3 Mainframe pricing
7.2.4 System utilization
7.2.5 Staff utilization
7.2.6 Quality of service
7.3 Summary
Chapter 8. The future of DB2 for z/OS
8.1 New workloads
8.1.1 Native SQL stored procedures
8.1.2 Integrated XML
8.1.3 Portability, ERP support, and family compatibility
8.2 Business resiliency
8.2.1 Enhanced security
8.2.2 Enhanced manageability
8.2.3 Table Append option
8.2.4 Index changes
8.2.5 Temporary storage architecture and use
8.3 DB2 for z/OS platform synergy
8.3.1 Shared memory and distributed connections
8.3.2 Index compression
8.4 Total cost of ownership
8.4.1 Autonomic computing
8.4.2 Optimization
8.5 Conclusion
Abbreviations and acronyms
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