Workload Management and Affinity Processing

One of the biggest advantages of the data sharing environment is the ability to balance your workload across the members in the group. The DB2 subsystems work very closely with the workload manager (WLM) component of OS/390 that allows us the ability to optimally balance incoming work across the subsystems in the group. WLM will manage workloads based upon predefined parameters, according to the characteristics and priorities of the work.

This allows us the ability to give more priority to OLTP transactions over long running batch queries. WLM will balance these workloads by ensuring that the long running batch queries do not consume the resources need by the online transactions. Allow the OLTP transaction ...

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