Proven Day-1 Savings

The IBM DB2 Tools for z/OS
help you to lower your costs, simplify your environment, and provide greater day-one value to your users, both during migration and after DB2 10 is running, to fully maximize the benefits of DB2 10. The tools help you in accelerating the migration process, saving CPU and I/O resources, improving application response time, and lowering production time deployment.

Read on to learn more about how the IBM DB2 Tools help you accelerate the use of DB2 10 features easily and effortlessly to take advantage of the cost and productivity savings in DB2 10.

Improve Performance to Lower Costs
Improving productivity is a top priority of every data center. Database administrators continually strive to maximize database performance to support service level agreements, drive higher transaction rates, and ultimately increase profitability. The DB2 Performance Tools help you manage your DB2 10 environment to the fullest.

• Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert for z/OS gives you a single, comprehensive tool to help assess the efficiency and optimize the performance of your DB2 10 on z/OS environment. Version 5.1 offers new end-to-end SQL monitoring capability that is extended to the z/OS platform.
• Optim Query Workload Tuner for DB2 for z/OS provides expert recommendations to DBAs to improve the performance of workloads.

Reduce Costs and Improve Availability
At the core of managing any DB2 database is the DB2 Utilities Suite that performs the critical operations to help manage and control data and its growth, especially as it relates to availability and performance of changing business needs. The DB2 Utilities Suite continues their investment with support for features including:

• Data-set level Flashcopy support for multiple utilities resulting in significant CPU and elapsed time reductions
• zIIP-enabled RUNSTATS with ability to perform page-level and auto-sampling rates
• Improved performance and availability of REORG

Increase Productivity with Proven Administration Tools
Today’s business environment has increased the complexity and rate of change that a database administrator must control. The ability to respond quickly to a changing environment is constantly challenged by the explosion of data growth combined with a decline in an experienced work staff.

• DB2 Administration Tool for z/OS helps you become productive from Day one with DB2 10 with the ability to easily manage online schema changes and include additional columns to indexes to exploit index-only access
• DB2 Object Comparison Tool for z/OS, working with the DB2 Administration Tool for z/OS, supports the DB2 10 object types and attributes so you can respond to your changing environment easily and safely.

Ensure High Data Availability
You need to ensure and protect your business data from corruption and loss. Data backup and recovery is one of the most complicated areas of database management. Having the right resources to do a recovery is critical, and unfortunately in many cases, not addressed until after data is already lost. Fortunately, the IBM DB2 Tools provide critical solutions to help you.

• DB2 Recovery Expert for z/OS helps you to avoid accidental data loss or corruption by providing the fastest, least costly method of recovery when time is of the essence.
• DB2 Cloning Tool for z/OS helps create subsystem clones to test DB2 10 with minimal effort during the migration process. After migration, you can use DB2 Cloning tool to quickly clone DB2 subsystems or DB2 tables, exploiting storage-based copies with Flashcopy technology to drastically reduce CPU and outages. Turn hours or days of manual cloning procedures into just minutes.