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Since Db2 interacts heavily with z/OS and other subsystems, “outside” perspectives provided by RMF metrics are essential to effectively manage Db2 operational health and performance.

A brief walkthrough of a sample dashboard into Db2 Statistics metrics that enables team members to share a common view of all key metrics and provides easy accessibility to carry out buffer pool tuning initiatives.

Automated assessments of key Db2 metrics facilitate proactive analysis and prevention of outages by identifying areas that may warrant investigation.

A brief introduction to some of the “other” (non-buffer pool related) metrics available in Db2 Statistics data

How to approach measuring the benefits of buffer pool tuning initiatives, which are likely to be primarily realized in this small set of average elapsed time metrics

Integrating IFCID 199 and SMF 42 data provides a view of buffer efficiency enabling buffer misses (I/Os) to be further subdivided into cache hits and misses, which can be leveraged to further refine buffer pool tuning methodologies.

This session suggests capabilities to keep in mind as you seek to modernize how you access and analyze your Db2 SMF data, both to promote rapid learning as well as boost the value you derive from your data.

Db2 IFCID 199 data provides buffer pool statistics at the dataset level. Integrating this with SMF 42 dataset I/O performance data provides extensive insights into I/O activity and response time data at the Db2 buffer pool and database levels.

Integrating IFCID 199 and SMF 42 data provides extensive insights into I/O cache characteristics and response time data at the Db2 buffer pool and Db2 database levels.

The profiles of work generated by the various callers of Db2 services often differ dramatically, highlighting the importance of dynamic navigation enabling great visibility into Db2 metrics by connection type.

Leveraging z/OS memory so that almost all data referenced by Db2 already resides in a buffer pool significantly improves performance and CPU efficiency.

Easy accessibility to key Db2 buffer metrics enhances buffer pool tuning analyses so that they can be quickly completed. This video explores key metrics for one buffer pool tuning methodology.