(Willie Favero) Are you curious about the possible performance improvements in DB2 9 for z/OS? Then I have just the thing for you. Akira Shibamiya, performance guru with DB2 for z/OS development, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory, has a presentation out on the IBM DB2 support web page that you will want
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