IBM Redbooks

Paolo Bruni

Ravi Kumar

Rajesh Ramachandran

Rafael Garcia

Sabine Kaschta

Josef Klitsch

Andrei Lurie

Michael Parbs

IBM® DB2® Version 10.1 for z/OS® (DB2 10 for z/OS or just DB2 10 throughout this book) is the fourteenth release of DB2 for MVSTM. It brings improved performance and synergy with the System z® hardware and more opportunities to drive business value in the following areas: Cost savings and compliance through optimized innovations DB2 10 delivers value in this area by achieving up to 10% CPU savings for traditional workloads and up to 20% CPU savings for nontraditional workloads, depending on the environments. Synergy with other IBM System z platform components reduces CPU use by taking advantage of the latest processor improvements and z/OS enhancements. Streamline security and regulatory compliance through the separation of roles between security and data administrators, column level security access, and added auditing capabilities. Business insight innovations Productivity improvements are provided by new functions available for pureXML®, data warehousing, and traditional online TP applications Enhanced support for key business partners that allow you to get more from your data in critical business disciplines like ERP Bitemporal support for applications that need to correlate the validity of data with time. Business resiliency innovations Database on demand capabilities to ensure that information design can be changed dynamically, often without database outages DB2 operations and utility improvements enhancing performance, usability, and availability by exploiting disk storage technology. The DB2 10 environment is available either for brand new installations of DB2, or for migrations from DB2 9 for z/OS or from DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 subsystems. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces the enhancements made available with DB2 10 for z/OS. The contents help you understand the new functions and performance enhancements, start planning for exploiting the key new capabilities, and justify the investment in installing or migrating or skip migrating to DB2 10.

DB2 10 for z/OS Technical Overview

While poet Rafael Garcia admits that life can be hard, it’s also precious, particularly when one learns to see it through the eyes of the heart. We cannot let circumstances discourage us or bring us down. Life is full of ups and downs, and experiencing them is what life is all about. My Collected Thoughts along the Way is a collection of poetry by Garcia exploring the challenges and the divine encounters that prepare us for our destinies. His poetry offers a series of thoughts and poems that he has collected along the way through all of his life experiences. Some of his thoughts were born in the midst of chaos in his life, while others arose from stress, loneliness, hunger, or cold. My Collected Thoughts along the Way offers hope, encouragement, and the reminder that you are not alone. One Must One must have dreams and goals. One must aspire to greatness. One must not be content with just the crumbs of life. One must work hard and reach success. But must of all, One must stay and remain humble while and throughout The whole process. Specially when reaching ones Dreams and goals. Never forgetting where he/she has come from.

My Collected Thoughts along the Way

Rafael Garcia

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