A wealth of reference information for the IBM i operating system: white papers, articles, the latest tool documentation, and more.
General performance resources
- IBM i 7.1 Performance Capabilities Reference - October/April 2011 (PDF, 1.38MB)
- IBM i 7.1 Performance Capabilities Reference - April 2011 (PDF, 1.53MB)
- IBM i 7.1 Performance Capabilities Reference - April/August 2010 (PDF, 1.51MB)
- IBM i 6.1.1 Performance Capabilities Reference - February 2010 (PDF, 1.34MB)
- IBM i V6.1 Performance Capabilities Reference - April/October 2009 (PDF, 1.34MB)
- IBM i V6.1 Performance Capabilities Reference - October 2008 (PDF, 1.31MB)
- V5R4 Performance Capabilities Reference - January/April/July 2007 (PDF, 1.63MB)
- V5R4 Performance Capabilities Reference - January/May/August 2006 (PDF, 1.63MB)
- V5R3 Performance Capabilities Reference - April/July 2005 Edition (PDF, 1.02MB)
- V5R3 Performance Capabilities Reference - May/July/Aug/Oct 2004 Edition (PDF, 1.10MB)
- Sizing IBM i5/OS Work on IBM System i Partitions
- iSeries Performance Management Tools Redpaper
- End to End Performance Management on IBM i
- iSeries Performance Overview - V5R3 (PDF, 1.97MB)
- System i Performance Overview - V5R4 (PDF, 2.00MB)
Performance education resources
Performance papers and articles
- Performance Implications of POWER7 Model 780’s TurboCore Mode (PDF, 882KB)
- Of Numa on POWER7 in IBM i (PDF, 580KB)
- What's This Multi-Core Computing Really? (PDF, 20KB)
- Performance Value of Solid State Drives using IBM i (PDF, 169KB)
- DS5300 Performance Results in IBM i Power Systems Environment (PDF, 116KB)
- Of GigaHertz and CPWs (PDF, 45KB)
- Sizing System i5 and iSeries Disk with IBM Workload Estimator (PDF, 334KB)
- Converting iSeries Disk Arm Requirements Based on Protection Type (PDF, 58.1KB)
- LPAR Performance on Power Systems with POWER4, POWER5 and POWER6 (PDF, 320KB)
- SQL Performance Analysis Simplified on DB2 for i5/OS in V5R4
- Performance Diagnosis on IBM DB2 Universal Database for iSeries
- eServer i5 Uncapped Partition CPU Utilization and Queueing Whitepaper (PDF, 61.3KB)
- Capacity Planning Tools for System i Hardware (PDF, 606KB)
- Geographic Mirroring in SAP System Environment on eServer iSeries (PDF, 77KB)
- Sizing IBM eServer i5 Servers for AIX 5L Applications (PDF, 66.7KB)
- Enhanced iSeries Performance - Memory Affinity (PDF, 154KB)
- Simultaneous Multi-Threading on POWER7 Processors (PDF, 52KB)
- Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) on POWER5 Processors (PDF, 95.3KB)
- Indexing Strategies for DB2 for i
- BRMS Performance Tuning of Online Domino Backups
- BRMS TSM Client Performance
- Scaling Large Web-based Apps Using Capacity on Demand (PDF, 100KB)
- iSeries Navigator Performance Tips and Techniques
Performance benchmark reports
- Lawson M3 System Foundation 7.1 using IBM Technology for Java on
System i (PDF, 203KB) - Benchmark Validation Test for IBM System i with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne (PDF, 172KB)
- Intentia One Box System i5 Benchmark (PDF, 79.7KB)
System i WebSphere and Java tuning resources
Performance Explorer resources
- Collecting and Analyzing PEX Trace Profile Data (PDF, 51.1KB)
- Retrieve PEX Information API
- Machine Instructions Traced By Performance Explorer
- Performance Explorer Trace Events
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