560 DS8800 Performance Monitoring and Tuning
17.1 DB2 in a z/OS environment
In this section, we provide a description of the characteristics of the various database
workloads, as well as the types of data-related objects used by DB2 (in a z/OS environment).
Also, we discuss the performance considerations and general guidelines for using DB2 with
the DS8000, as well as a description of the tools and reports that can be used for monitoring
DB2.
17.1.1 Understanding your database workload
To better understand and position the performance of your particular database system, it is
helpful to first learn about the following common database profiles and their unique workload
characteristics.
DB2 online transaction processing (OLTP)
OLTP databases are ...