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Chapter 5. Dynamic workload
balancing
Dynamic workload balancing is an important factor in achieving business
benefits from data sharing. Continuous availability, flexible configuration, scalable
growth and managing workload spikes provide most advantages when workload
can be routed dynamically to the images in the Parallel Sysplex that have the
most capacity or best throughput.
This chapter describes the components, processes, and features that allow you
to achieve dynamic workload balancing in a DB2 data sharing environment.
We discuss the following topics:
Objectives of workload balancing