DB2 10 for z/OS

In the current economic climate, businesses are under significant pressure to control costs and increase efficiency to improve their bottom line. DB2 for z/OS customers around the world are still trying to gain competitive advantage by doing more with less: more business insight, more performance, more operational efficiency, more functionality, more productivity with less cost, quicker time to market, and a lower TCO. With support for DB2 Version 8 scheduled to end in April 2012, there has never been a better time to start planning your DB2 10 upgrade.

DB2 10 for z/OS: The Smarter, Faster Way to Uprgrade explores the top 10 reasons to start planning your upgrade today:

1. Improved performance, with reduced software license costs
2. Increased number of concurrent users, by a factor of 10
3. Reduced contention in database administration
4. More administrative capabilities while database is online
5. Improved security and auditing
6. Ability to maintain “snapshots” of changing data – Temporal Data
7. Improved portability via enhanced SQL
8. Enhanced pureXML performance and usability
9. Improved productivity for database/systems administrators and application programmers
10. Better online transaction processing performance – Hash Access
    
    
    Author Biography
    John Campbell is an IBM Distinguished Engineer reporting to the Director for z/OS Development at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab.
    
    Cristian Molaro is an independent DB2 specialist and an IBM Gold Consultant focused on DB2 for z/OS administration and performance.
    
    Surekha Parekh is IBM’s World-wide Marketing Program Director – DB2 for z/OS.
    
    More About the Authors:
    
    John Campbell
    Cristian Molaro
    Surekha Parekh