DB2 11 for z/OS Application Performance and Tuning (CV963G) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

  • Introduction to Application Performance and Tuning
  • List common causes of application performance problems
  • Evalutate different approaches for detecting the problems
  • Describe possible solutions
  • Performance Analysis Tools
  • Understand components of local response time (LRT)
  • Identify touch random (TR), touch sequential (TS), and fetch (F) time costs
  • Utilize VQUBE3 to estimate local response time (LRT)
  • Locate necessary time values in an accounting trace report
  • Draw and interpret a bubble chart
  • Towards Better Indexes
  • Understand DB2 index structure and usage
  • Evalute the cost of creating a new index or modifying an existing index
  • Design the best possible index for a single table query
  • Describe prefetch operations and multi-index access
  • Multiple Table Access
  • Identify various join methods and join types
  • Predict table join order
  • Design the best indexes for joining tables
  • Optimmize correlated and non-correlated subqueries
  • Utilize UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT operations
  • Towards Better Tables
  • Evaluate clustering alternatives
  • Understand basic rules of nomalization
  • Consider conditions for denormalization
  • Define materialized query tables
  • Learning to Live with the Optimizer
  • Describe the limitations related to dangerous predicates
  • Identify situations when the optimizer needs help with filter factor estimates
  • Massive Batch
  • Detect performance problems with massive batch jobs
  • Make batch jobs run faster
  • Locking Issues
  • Describe DB2 serialization
  • Understand transaction locking
  • Avoid locking problems in application design
  • Course Summary
  • Summarize the topics covered in this course