DB2® Universal Database for OS/390® Version 7.1 Certification Guide

Data Sharing Benefits

The many advantages of using DB2 data sharing include:

• Improved price/performance by using S/390 microprocessor technology

• Increased capacity with more power and a higher degree of inter-transaction parallelism available

• Continuous availability through the ability to hide unplanned outages and planned outages (for example, rolling maintenance), and if a member is lost, you can keep on running

• Incremental growth (horizontal growth) by adding processors without any disruption

• Configuration flexibility with the ability to start/stop members as required, separate subsystems by function (such as batch, ad hoc, and OLTP)

• Ability to split large queries across all CPCs with sysplex query parallelism

• Flexibility for scheduling existing ...