Archive for the 'SAP on DB2 (z/OS)' Category

April 18, 2008

I’ve already mentioned before one must be very careful when reading various statistical reports. In this post I will describe another aspect of the same problem. Lets say you are using the RMF report WLMGL to display the projected ZIIP potential of a workload…

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April 4, 2008

These defaults can cause you a lot of trouble. Because if you don’t change them, each user is allowed to allocate around 5.6GB of virtual memory. I recommend changing these defaults as early as possible.

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My First ZIIP Measurements

Author: DB2UDB Admin
April 4, 2008

I have recently run a few test’s of my own, using the “new” rmf report that’s supplied by ibm for the purpose of measuring the approximated amount of CPU that could be offloaded to the ZIIP…

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Have you ever crashed DB2 using just a runstats job and a shoestring? I have, 3 times in 10 minutes, and I didn’t even use the shoestring. It all started out with a failed reorg job:

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February 25, 2008

After a few minutes of research, the problem was identified, CR’s that were in the target system, but not in the source system, were “deleted” when the system copy was run….In order to fix this problem…

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January 19, 2008

There isn’t one simple document that lists all the jobs one must run in order to insure a clean WAS. Lately I have come across a few more, less known, sap standard reorg jobs(reports),
There is a good chance that you are not running all of them on a regular basis, so …

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SAP Facts - Chuck Norris style

Author: DB2UDB Admin
December 30, 2007

A little holiday spirit …


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celebrating my father’s life

Author: DB2UDB Admin
December 17, 2007

During the painful haze of the first few hours following my father’s death, I decided that the best way to deal with it, is to celebrate my father’s life (instead of mourn his death).


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December 11, 2007

I have finally gotten around to doing some table buffer investigation in SAP ECC6. There is a good chance that your systems could benefit from making similar changes, so here is what i found out.

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November 19, 2007

To some of you this may be old news, but i have only read about this lately, so I figured some people may still find the following bit of news new and interesting.


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