
44 OnDemand SQL Performance Analysis Simplified on DB2 for i5/OS in V5R4
Database monitors have existed on DB2 UDB for iSeries for many releases, but the usability
of these monitors takes a big step forward in
V5R4 DB2 for i5/OS with addition of both pre-
and
post-filters. These filters are very similar to the filters that were available with the SQL
Plan Cache viewer
. Database monitor filters are important for a couple of reasons. First, the
filters can minimize the overhead and disk space consumed by a database monitor collection.
As a case in point, a customer recently ran a database monitor collection on all jobs on their
system for 15 minutes ...