Example 5: Periodic Noticeable Slowdown of Database Response Time

Problem Description

CustomerC is running an eCommerce site with the backed data store on DB2. At various times throughout the day, the database response time for application requests becomes very long.

Problem Analysis and Resolution

Step 1: Examine the Database and Database Manager Configuration Parameters
Database manager configuration

The three parameters in the database manager configuration that stand out are highlighted in bold below. In this case, the application is mainly an online application; therefore, intra-partition parallelism should be disabled. Because there will be a large number of concurrent applications, the sort heap threshold (SHEAPTHRES) will need to be high; ...

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