Desperate Measure – How to Relieve the Db2 Optimizer of Its Duties

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Session title: Desperate Measure – How to Relieve the Db2 Optimizer of Its Duties

Session abstract: Optimal query access plans are essential for good data server performance, and it is the query optimizer’s job to choose the best one. However, occasionally no amount of statistics or tuning is enough to get the access plan you want. Or your application is effectively down, due to a poorly performing query, and there isn’t time to implement best practices.

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Monitoring Alerts at Mastercard

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Session title: Monitoring Alerts at Mastercard

Session abstract: Are you monitoring the right Db2 messages and codes?  Do you have automation setup to look at MSTR and page you if a critical issue arises? Are you looking at -904 (resource unavailable) conditions to see what needs to be fixed now, vs sometime later? Do you maintain a list of all Db2 messages and codes that are critical to the success of Db2 on z/OS?

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