I’m still talking about real-time statistics. This is what is referred to as the trickle affect. Periodically I keep discussing another little piece of real-time statistics. This stuff is important… it’s useful… and in my opinion it’s pretty interesting…. Every time I reread one of my posts, I think of something else I should have said.
Now it’s time to discuss managing index usage via real-time stats.
An interesting title for a blog post? The word “update” implies I have discussed real time statistic before; I have not. Although, I wish I had. In fact, it’s getting ever more difficult to come up with an original DB2 for z/OS subject to write about. It sometimes seems like everything has been done, been discussed, been explained; and at least a couple of times by now. This blogging stuff was so much easier when I had the only blog that covered DB2 for z/OS. Now there are a bunch of these blogs; they’re everyplace. Unfortunately, I must admit that a couple of them a pretty good. It’s difficult for me to write about something that someone else has already done a great job describing.
Today’s blog post is a continuation of my earlier post on real time statistics (“An update on Real Time Statistics”) made just last week (March 21, 2013). Continuation is my way of saying I forgot to mention something that I really should have mentioned to make my real time statistics conversation more accurate. I didn’t discuss the relationship between DB2’s utilities and real time stats.
The February 2013 product publication updates are now available. There were no updates for DB2 10 or DB2 9 for January 2013. The “almost new” tradition continues with the pub folk publishing documentation updates on a near monthly bases…..
The December 2012 product publication updates are now available. It looks like the DB2 Publication’s Team managed to get all of the most popular DB2 product publications (or at least the most popular in my opinion) updated just in time for the Holidays, just days before Christmas. The “almost new” tradition continues with the pub folk publishing documentation updates on an monthly bases…..
November has been a quiet month for publication updates. So for this month only two have been updated in DB2 10 and two for DB2 9.
DB2 10 updates:
DB2 10 for z/OS Program Directory – GI10-8829-04 (403 KB PDF file)
(i1088294.pdf)
DB2 10 for z/OS VUE Program Directory – GI10-8839-04 (408 KB PDF file)
DB2 9 updates:
DB2 9 for z/OS Program Directory – GI10-8737-06 (175 KB PDF file)
DB2 9 for z/OS VUE Program Directory – GI10-8779-06 (181 KB PDF file)
All of the product documentation is available for download in PDF format from the DB2 product library web site 
. Check this site for updates before making major decision when using the manuals.
Finally, and maybe most importantly, the best place to get hold of the most up to date information about DB2 for z/OS, regardless of the release, will almost always be the Information Center on the web .
It appears that October,although not terribly busy for product publication updates, did manage to have a few more than last September did.
It looks like publication updates may be coming closer to the end of the month now. August is the 2nd month (or is it the third) month in a row that the updates have appeared at the very end of the month or the during the first few days of the following month. However, they did arrive and that’s what is really important. So the “new” tradition continues with the pub folk publishing documentation updates on an almost monthly bases….. Continue reading »
Every once in a while I completely miss a feature added to DB2. This time I missed what I would call a biggie; a way to significantly improve the performance of your DB2 UNLOAD and LOAD utilities…… Continue reading »
It was close nce again; we almost made it out of the month of July with no publication updates. However, once again the crew that keeps all the DB2 for z/OS product documentation up to date managed to take on a couple of the pubs before the month ran out to continue their tradition of publishing documentation updates on an almost monthly bases….. Continue reading »
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