Achieving Higher Availability Through Use of DB2 for z/OS Advanced Features  Product documentation

Abstract
Jeff Josten, Distinguished Engineer, IBM® Silicon Valley Lab

This presentation gives an overview of many of the most important availability features in DB2® and some hints and tips on how to leverage these capabilities to deliver higher levels of availability for DB2 applications and end users.


Content
Jeff Josten, Distinguished Engineer, IBM® Silicon Valley Lab
DB2 for z/OS® provides advanced features that you can leverage to deliver high availability and mask many types of planned and unplanned outages. DB2 provides its high availability capabilities through extensive integration with the underlying zSeries® platform and through delivery of new availability features in each release. This presentation gives an overview of many of the most important availability features in DB2 and some hints and tips on how to leverage these capabilities to deliver higher levels of availability for DB2 applications and end users.

Specifically, this presentation provides information about the following
topics:

1. Trends in availability
2. Important Version 7 availability features 3. Important Version 8 availability features 4. Synergy with z/OS and zSeries 5. Disaster recovery alternatives

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With kind regards
Michael Dewert, Software GroupTechnical Sales DB2