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Performance management and optimization solutions for IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows
Manage and optimize performance of your database environment before it impacts your business

Performance management and optimization solutions for IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows

Poor application and database performance can have a real effect on your companys bottom line. For e-commerce sites, inadequate performance is a leading cause of lost sales and customer churn. For mission-critical systems, the result can be substantially reduced productivity and revenue. Missed service-level agreements (SLAs) may result in customer loss, brand damage and even fines or other penalties. Its a tough challenge: organizations are under constant pressure to develop and deploy critical business applications while ensuring that existing applications maintain optimal performance levels to meet customer expectations. But as usage grows, applications can become less responsive. And with data doubling in volume every five years, database performance can become unacceptably sluggish.

Attempting to solve these problems by purchasing more hardware and increasing staff can cause infrastructure and resource costs to skyrocket. Database administrators (DBAs) can spend hours and sometimes days reacting to a performance problemindustry surveys report that database tuning and optimization can take up to 2025 percent of DBA time.

Address performance challenges and manage costs

To address those performance-related challenges, IBM provides a comprehensive solution for optimizing and managing performance across the data environment. Performance management and optimization solutions for IBM DB2 help you implement a best-practice methodology to identify, diagnose, solve and prevent performance bottlenecks (see Figure 1).

Identify
Receive early notifications of problems before they impact production. Quickly isolate problems across database, network and application layers. Get visibility into problems by workload to prioritize response.

Diagnose
Follow guided workflows to diagnose issues. Get complete views of data, from real time to any time. Dig into the root causes of problems with detailed drill-down capabilities. Use built-in integration to leverage data from other IBM solutions. Spot changes that may be related to performance slowdowns.

Solve
Receive easy-to-understand, actionable recommendations for problem resolution. Tune entire workloads to balance costs across query and insert actions. Minimize slowdowns that impact user productivity and revenue.

Prevent
Capture and analyze real-time and historical data for capacity planning and growth. Proactively optimize the performance of query workloads, database and applications. Configure DB2 Workload Manager to allocate resources according to business priority. Foster cross-team collaboration to improve security, performance and manageability.

Figure 1: IBMs proactive approach to performance management is designed to identify, diagnose, solve and prevent bottlenecks.

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These solutions help your IT staff quickly isolate performance problems across the application, application server, network, database server and operating system layers. Administrators can monitor and drill down to the specific root cause of a performance issuesuch as resource shortages and exceptional conditions in the databasebefore production systems are impacted. IBMs comprehensive approach, with tight integration between performance management solutions, allows organizations to resolve performance problems and improve cross-team collaboration. Performance management and optimization solutions from IBM enable your organization to streamline time-consuming performance tuning tasks and reduce costs. Together, IBM InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager, IBM InfoSphere Optim Configuration Manager, IBM InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner and IBM InfoSphere Optim pureQuery Runtime provide a powerful set of capabilities to enhance your database and application performance. Combining these solutions for comprehensive, integrated performance management, DBAs can move out of reaction mode so that issues are resolved before they have a major impact on your business.

A powerful set of solutions for maximizing performance Performance management and optimization solutions for IBM DB2 include: InfoSphere Optim Performance ManagerA comprehensive and proactive solution for real-time monitoring and performance warehousing for DB2 and IBM InfoSphere Warehouse for Linux, UNIX and Windows InfoSphere Optim Configuration ManagerAn innovative solution offering centralized, effective and efficient management of database and client configuration InfoSphere Optim Query Workload TunerAn intelligent solution providing expert recommendations to maximize application performance, helping reduce specialized skill requirements and the total cost of ownership InfoSphere Optim pureQuery RuntimeA highperformance data access platform that helps enhance the performance of existing in-house database client applications and speed the development and deployment of new applications By leveraging these performance management and optimization solutions for DB2, you can take charge of your data environment, maximizing DB2 performance while lowering the total cost of ownership of your DB2 implementation.

Uncomplicate the complicated task of tuning and monitoring your DB2 systems, with very little effort. InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager simplifies our efforts so that we can now do in hours what used to take days.
Mike Dent, Lead DBA, PacifiCorp

Performance management and optimization solutions for IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows

Performance and securityDBAs can use InfoSphere Optim pureQuery Runtime to improve the performance and security of an existing application and to reduce the time needed to go live with newly developed applications.

Become proactive with IBM InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager

Improve database and application performance and reduce costs by providing your DBAs and other IT staff with the information they need to detect and prevent problems early. InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager delivers 24x7 end-to-end database transaction monitoring. Out-of-the-box configurations for SAP, IBM WebSphere, IBM Cognos, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and InfoSphere Warehouse applications help provide quick time-to-value. InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager provides seamless analysis of performance data from real time to any point in time. Interactive dashboards make it easy to see what happened recently, compare activities to prior points in time and visualize trends to support capacity planning. Easily identify costly queries for proactive tuning, whether long-running or short and frequently run. Your organization can monitor DB2 workloads of any size, from online transaction processing (OLTP) to business intelligence (BI). Browser-based technology makes access to performance information available anywhere, anytime. Deploying this information to a larger user basefor example, to developers and testersbecomes practical with InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager because it does not introduce additional monitoring overhead on the DB2 server.

Empower your team for true end-to-end management

Your DBAs can achieve maximum results by using the performance management and optimization solutions for DB2 together as an interrelated solution set providing end-to-end capabilitiesfrom detection of a performance issue through its analysis and resolution.

Monitoring and diagnosisDBAs can monitor database environments, receive notification if a problem arises and then pinpoint the source of the problem through InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager. DBAs can also contextually launch InfoSphere Optim Configuration Manager from within InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager to find out if the performance issue is caused by configuration changes in the data environment. OptimizationOnce a performance issue is pinpointed, DBAs can transfer a single query or an entire query workload in a single click to InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner to get expert recommendations for improving queries, access plans, statistics and indexes.

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The Extended Insight feature of InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager expands performance monitoring beyond the database server to provide instant problem isolation to the appropriate layer of the application stack, and offer the ability to set and monitor response time objectives for the highest-priority workloads. These extended capabilities include integration with IBM Tivoli offerings such as Tivoli Composite Application Manager.

Spotlight on success Businesses around the world are using InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager to solve key performance management and optimization challenges. For example: A major consumer product company uses InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager Extended Edition to improve performance of business-critical SAP applications. The company also uses the solution to prevent problems before they can have a negative impact, as well as establish key performance indicators to help ensure its DB2 and SAP environments support business goals. A large financial software provider in China analyzes performance based on historical trends, improves performance with optimized SQL statements and increases end-user satisfaction, all with InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager Extended Edition.

Control your data environment with InfoSphere Optim Configuration Manager

InfoSphere Optim Configuration Manager helps organizations manage data more effectively and efficiently by centralizing management of database and client configurations. DBAs can modify properties of deployed database clients to improve database transaction performance, and allocate data clients among data servers for optimum workload balance. Additionally, DBAs can track the configuration changes to the data clients or servers that could be the root cause of a sudden performance degradation or production application outage. Your team can:

Deploy new data clients in a restricted environment so users can gauge application behavior before moving applications to a full production environment Detect database application clients automatically so all clients are considered for a planned database upgrade or migration Route poorly behaving data clients across Linux, UNIX and Windows to a different data server so that performance and availability objectives are met and sustained Automatically keep all database clients locked into the best performance characteristics Detect unused distributed databases without clients so hardware and software resources can be cost-effectively reprovisioned

Centralized configuration control gives IT increased confidence during deployment and enables faster problem solving by putting power back into the hands of your DBAs. InfoSphere Optim Configuration Manager creates a single version of the truth, which reduces the possibility of a configuration error causing downtime. Your organization is also better able to enforce compliance with centralized control of distributed database access.

Performance management and optimization solutions for IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows

Enhance efficiency with InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner

Applications and workloads need to be tuned to optimize performance and maximize system capacity. Reduced SQL query performance can stem from a variety of problems, including inaccurate statistics, inefficiently designed SQL statements and missing indexes. Recently introduced for Linux, UNIX and Windows platforms, InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner empowers your team to:

Spotlight on success Organizations participating in beta testing of the solution including the United States Senate and Honda Americaare impressed with InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner. The US Senate has seen query response time go down significantly with statistics provided by the Statistics Advisor available with the InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner. Honda America cut DBA tuning effort by about half on the companys Microsoft Windows/Linux system with InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner, according to Richard Wong, chief DBA for Honda America.

Tune and optimize poorly performing query workloads before they affect the production environment. Simplify and speed up query workload analysis for performance-related issues while reducing specialized skills requirements Get actionable expert recommendations to improve query workload performance Consolidate recommendations for the entire workload so that costs and benefits are taken into account

IBM InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuners Statistics Advisor saves time and resources by gathering the right statistics.
Lloyd Matthews, Chief DBA, US Senate1

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The improved performance and return on investment generated by InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner can directly benefit your organizations bottom line. The solution also fosters teamwork and collaboration by helping DBAs and developers gain insights into SQL performance, ultimately reducing application downtime and associated costs.

Spotlight on success Using the pureQuery platform can make a big difference in business performance. A direct broadcast satellite television company in the United States improved customer softwarerefresh reliability and upgraded its database capabilities when it engaged IBM to implement InfoSphere Optim pureQuery Runtime and IBM DB2 Enterprise software.

Help simplify and secure applications with InfoSphere Optim pureQuery Runtime
InfoSphere Optim pureQuery Runtime provides a runtime environment and application programming interfaces (APIs) to enhance the performance of your organizations applications and help speed development of new ones. Your organization can use InfoSphere Optim pureQuery Runtime to:

Extend the capabilities of your DB2 environment

DB2 and performance management and optimization solutions from IBM add up to important benefits for your organization. You can:

Increase performance by replacing poorly performing SQL with optimized SQL and reducing processing overhead Enhance security by reducing exposure of sensitive data Improve manageability by quickly tracing performance issues and enhancing version control

The solution simplifies the use of best practices for SQL and JDBC, improving application performance, and streamlines development of application code. Your organization can get all the benefits of static executionimproved performance, enhanced security and improved manageabilitywith no application changes.

Extend your DB2 database environment with powerful new tools to boost productivity for DBAs and developers Create a unified platform for proactively removing performance bottlenecks before they impact your production environment Build performance-oriented applications right from the start to prevent future problems

Sifting through Explain output to optimize performance used to take hoursIBM InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner gets us there in a few mouse clicks.
Richard Wong, Chief DBA, Honda America2

Implementing a proactive performance management strategy also helps your organization control costs and better support business objectives. The performance management and optimization portfolio for DB2 delivers exceptional value by enabling you to manage the performance of mission-critical applications to minimize costs. With IBM DB2 and the performance management and optimization solutions for DB2, your organization can consistently meet SLAs, cut query response time from minutes to seconds, capture more sales with a fast, responsive online user experience, and deliver trusted information to give your business a competitive edge.

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