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IDUG EU 2009 Patric Becker: Leveraging Data Warehouse Session: A01 Leveraging Data Warehouse Performance with DB2 9 for z/OS and System z10 Patric Becker IBM Boeblingen Lab 05 October 2009 • 11:30 – 12:30 Platform: DB2 for z/OS This session looks into new feature delivered with IBM System z10 as well as the new capabilities of DB2 9 for z/OS and highlights those options which can be beneficial for Data Warehousing environments in terms of availability and performance. Not all the relevant features can be described at a very granular level, but the idea is to provide information to understand the important features to trigger further analysis to improve the availability and performance of existing Data Warehouses. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH IBM D Research & Development Headquarter IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Schönaicher Straße 220 D-71032 Böblingen Berlin Managing Director Erich Baier Employees 2008 Approx. 1.800 (2.200) Homepage ibm.com/de/entwicklung Very strong development portfolio Mainz Globally integrated in hardware and software Walldorf development One of the biggest IBM R&D location world wide IBM Forschung & Böblingen Acknowledged innovation team Entwicklung ~ 310 patent submissions 2008 München ~ 400 students 2008 IND GmbH ~ 80 new-hires 2007 2 IBM Research & Development Locations worldwide Böblingen Greenock ▲ Yorktown Heights Toronto Hursley ▲ Peking Rochester Krakau Boulder Dublin Moskau Beaverton Paris Fujisawa ▲ Zürich ▲ Tokio Burlington Rom Yasu Yamato Endicott San Jose Shanghai ▲ Almaden East Fishkill Santa Teresa Poughkeepsie ▲Haifa Taipei Kairo Raleigh Bangalore Tucson Pune ▲ ▲Austin Delhi São Paolo Gold Coast Perth ▲ Research Sydney Hardware Development Software Development Hardware and Software Development 3 3 Development Portfolio System Customer WBI for Business Process Management Web 2.0 Information Platform and Sales financial Management Technology & Solutions (IPS) Business Networks (Process Server) Support Continuity IBM Executive Briefing Center Middleware Data Management Enterprise Premises (STG & SWG) System Portal Server DataPower and Content Server Automation IM Tools Management (ECM) Hybrid Management Technical Pre-Sales Storage Linux on Cell/B.E.Linux on System z z/VSE Support Management Virtualization Solutions Systems Open Hypervisor z/VM Management zOS and for z/OS und Virtualization Post-Sales Linux Support System Tape Management ASIC Design Cell Blades z Firmware System Control and Packaging Emerging Systems Service Network Lab Services Systems Support Processor Simulation Cell / OEM Server Linux Distribution Technology Microprocessors Microprocessors 4 4 PortalPortal Software BPMBPM Software cess Server WebSphere Pro LinuxLinux InnovationsInnovations onon fromfrom SystemSystem zz BöblingenBöblingen CELLCELL CMOSCMOS ProzessorProzessor ProzessorProzessor 5 5 Notices This information was developed for products and services offered in the U.S.A. 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Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. 7 Key Objectives • Understand the System z10 Highlights • Describe in some technical depths the Specialty Engines • Provide information about HiperDispatch • Learn about new DB2 9 for z/OS features to enhance the availability and performance of your data warehouse DWHDWH zz SolutionSolution Linux on z/OS System z 8 System z10 9 IBM z10 EC Continues the CMOS Mainframe Heritage 4000 4.4 GHz 3500 3000 1.7 GHz 2500 1.2 MHz 2000 GHz 770 MHz 1500 550 420 300 MHz MHz 1000 MHz 500 0 1997 1998 1999 2000 2003 2005 2008 G4 G5 G6 z900 z990 z9 EC z10 EC G4 - 1st full-custom CMOS S/390® IBM eServer™ zSeries® 900 (z900) - Full 64-bit z/Architecture® z10 EC - Architectural G5 - IEEE-standard BFP; branch IBM eServer zSeries 990 (z990) - Superscalar CISC pipeline extensions target prediction z9 EC - System level scaling G6 - Cu BEOL 10 On February 26th 2008, IBM has announced the System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC). See Figure 4-3. This mainframe is the fastest in the industry at 4.4 GHz, has up to 1.5 TB of memory, new open connectivity options and delivers performance and capacity growth drawing upon the heritage of the z/Architecture servers. The z10 EC is a general purpose server for compute intensive workloads (such as business intelligence) and I/O intensive workloads (such as transaction and batch processing). This slide depicts the evolution of IBM’s System z mainframe technology, scaling up to the System z10 Enterprise Class Server with a processor speed
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