The db2top tool, on each of its various screens, presents a subset of the full capabilities of the DB2 snapshot monitor. In this post, we’ll see how you can use the native snapshot feature to […]
Author: Keith McDonald
New in DB2 for LUW 9.7.2: UDF default parameters
IBM released DB2 for LUW 9.7.2 recently and, along with numerous quality improvements, there were a number of interesting new features. In today’s post, I will talk about the “default parameters in UDFs” feature and […]
db2top Change Columns Order
What good is a tool if you can’t customize it to your liking? Fortunately, db2top is quite customizable. In today’s post, we will look at how you can customize the order in which columns are […]
Histograms
In Curt Cotner’s recent blog post, What’s new in statement-level performance metrics, he wrote about the popularity among customers of Optim Performance Manager (OPM)’s ability to create and visualize histograms of statement costs. In this […]