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DB2 for z/OS: DB2 database design

(Fred Whitlark) Many design decisions made early during the development process can have a significant influence on the performance of your DB2 applications and databases. This article provides some general guidelines and recommendations for achieving better DB2 performance in z/OS environments.

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What is Large? What is High Volume?

(Craig S. Mullins) Every now and then some sage consultant will offer advice like “Large DB2 table spaces should be partitioned” or “Bind your DB2 applications using ACQUIRE(ALLOCATE) and RELEASE(DEALLOCATE) for high volume transaction workloads.” But how useful is this advice? What do they mean by

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Address for Success

(Bernard Chester) In 15 years of content management consulting (of course when I started it wasn’t called that), I’ve observed that enterprise content management (ECM) projects fall prey to a number of problems that jeopardize their success. I hope to ensure that no one who reads this column encount