Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Evolution of the mainframe -- 1.1 The evolution of z/Architecture -- 1.1.1 Lower cost of entry to mainframes -- 1.1.2 More options in pricing and performance -- 1.1.3 Leveraging investment in existing applications -- 1.2 Hardware -- 1.3 Operating systems -- 1.3.1 Value of z/OS -- 1.3.2 Evolution of z/OS -- 1.3.3 Other mainframe operating systems -- 1.4 Processor -- 1.5 Management -- 1.6 Preparing new mainframers -- 1.7 2000 through 2005: The era of on demand -- Chapter 2. The evolution of DB2 for z/OS -- 2.1 The evolution of DB2 UDB for z/OS -- 2.2 DB2 and Parallel Sysplex industry leadership -- 2.2.1 Extreme availability -- 2.2.2 Near-linear scalability -- 2.2.3 Preservation of investment -- 2.2.4 Controlled enablement of new functionality on version upgrade -- 2.2.5 Rolling maintenance and new releases without an outage -- 2.2.6 Ability to fallback -- 2.2.7 Conclusion -- 2.3 Summary for DB2 -- Chapter 3. DB2 synergy with zSeries and z/OS -- 3.1 The zSeries, z/OS, and DB2 partnership -- 3.1.1 z/OS highlights -- 3.1.2 zSeries architecture highlights -- 3.1.3 DB2 UDB for z/OS -- 3.2 Parallel Sysplex and data sharing -- 3.2.1 Shared nothing -- 3.2.2 Shared disk -- 3.2.3 Shared data -- 3.2.4 Advantages of data sharing -- 3.2.5 Cost benefit -- 3.2.6 Summary -- 3.3 Compression -- 3.4 Security -- 3.4.1 zSeries security features -- 3.4.2 DB2 controls -- 3.4.3 DB2 and multilevel security -- 3.4.4 Summary -- 3.5 Encryption -- 3.5.1 DB2 column level encryption -- 3.5.2 IBM Data Encryption for IMS and DB2 Databases -- 3.5.3 Summary -- 3.6 Sort -- 3.7 z/OS Unicode Conversion Services -- 3.8 UNIX System Services -- 3.9 WorkLoad Manager, Intelligent Resource Director, and VIPA -- 3.9.1 WorkLoad Manager.

3.9.2 Intelligent Resource Director -- 3.9.3 Virtual IP addressing -- 3.9.4 Summary -- 3.10 Disk storage -- 3.10.1 ESS -- 3.10.2 FICON channels -- 3.10.3 VSAM data striping -- 3.10.4 Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex -- 3.10.5 HyperSwap -- 3.11 zSeries 990 -- 3.12 64-bit virtual storage -- 3.13 HyperSockets -- 3.13.1 Specialized processor for Linux -- 3.14 zSeries Application Assist Processor for Java -- 3.15 Summary -- Chapter 4. Business resiliency -- 4.1 The DB2 business computing environment -- 4.2 DB2 for z/OS and zSeries resiliency -- 4.2.1 Reliability -- 4.2.2 Availability -- 4.2.3 Scalability -- 4.2.4 Manageability and adaptability -- 4.2.5 Security -- 4.2.6 Accessibility and extensibility -- 4.2.7 Summary -- Chapter 5. The on demand environment -- 5.1 z/Architecture adaptation through evolution -- 5.1.1 Revenue protection and growth -- 5.1.2 Return on investment -- 5.1.3 Business resiliency -- 5.1.4 Security -- 5.2 Advanced technologies -- 5.2.1 Open standards -- 5.2.2 Web services -- 5.2.3 Service-oriented architecture -- 5.3 Enhanced application support -- 5.3.1 WebSphere -- 5.3.2 DB2 development -- 5.3.3 IBM Rational -- 5.3.4 IBM Lotus -- 5.3.5 Microsoft .Net framework -- 5.3.6 Independent software vendors and packaged solutions -- 5.3.7 DB2 utilities -- 5.4 z/OS.e for workloads for On Demand Business -- Chapter 6. Readiness for new workloads -- 6.1 Background for new workload creation -- 6.2 Development of new business transaction applications -- 6.2.1 Prioritizing for new applications -- 6.2.2 Security for new applications -- 6.2.3 Ability to accommodate growth -- 6.2.4 Rapid development of high performance applications -- 6.3 Enhancement of existing applications -- 6.3.1 Using utilities instead of developing programs -- 6.4 Purchasing new software packages -- 6.4.1 Usability, availability, and scalability -- 6.4.2 Performance.

6.4.3 Tools and administration -- 6.5 Acquisition of new companies -- 6.6 Consolidation -- 6.6.1 Consolidation via new business acquisition -- 6.6.2 Server consolidation -- 6.7 Development or augmentation of BI systems -- 6.7.1 Preliminary sizing estimate and capacity planning for growth -- 6.7.2 Data movement into the BI system -- 6.7.3 Availability -- 6.7.4 Scalability -- 6.7.5 Systems management -- 6.7.6 Parallelism -- 6.7.7 Query performance and throughput -- 6.7.8 Database support skills -- 6.7.9 Conclusions for BI systems on z/OS -- 6.8 Customer growth -- 6.9 Requirement for storing new data types -- 6.10 DB2 Query Management Facility -- 6.10.1 DB2 QMF components -- 6.10.2 More on Visionary -- 6.11 Summary -- Chapter 7. Evaluating the cost of your solution -- 7.1 Total cost of ownership -- 7.1.1 What is TCO? -- 7.1.2 Mainframe differentiators -- 7.2 zSeries and DB2 UDB for z/OS -- 7.2.1 Mainframe Charter -- 7.2.2 Hardware -- 7.2.3 Mainframe pricing -- 7.2.4 System utilization -- 7.2.5 Staff utilization -- 7.2.6 Quality of service -- 7.3 Summary -- Chapter 8. The future of DB2 for z/OS -- 8.1 New workloads -- 8.1.1 Native SQL stored procedures -- 8.1.2 Integrated XML -- 8.1.3 Portability, ERP support, and family compatibility -- 8.2 Business resiliency -- 8.2.1 Enhanced security -- 8.2.2 Enhanced manageability -- 8.2.3 Table Append option -- 8.2.4 Index changes -- 8.2.5 Temporary storage architecture and use -- 8.3 DB2 for z/OS platform synergy -- 8.3.1 Shared memory and distributed connections -- 8.3.2 Index compression -- 8.4 Total cost of ownership -- 8.4.1 Autonomic computing -- 8.4.2 Optimization -- 8.5 Conclusion -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.