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Title: DB2 symmetric multiprocessing: Database parallelism within i5/OS

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Abstract: This course concerns the DB2 symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) feature of i5/OS, which runs on the System i and System p platforms. This course explains the need for installing the DB2 SMP feature for i5/OS. Another discussion relates to the i5/OS architecture and how it works cohesively with DB2 for i5/OS to deliver powerful parallelism for database access. You learn how to turn SMP on and off and how to manage the degree of SMP that a particular job invokes. Feedback is important to understanding how well your jobs monitor SMP performance - Visual Explain and other i5/OS tools provide a feedback mechanism, which this course reviews. This course also reviews several tips and considerations on the use of database parallelism in the i5/OS environment. (This course is most useful to developers who code SQL queries to access DB2 for i5/OS data.)