db2top Tables Screen (Part 1)

Have you ever wanted to see a (near) real-time view of how much data is being read from or written to your tables? How about your temporary tables? The db2top Tables screen does all of […]

db2top Bufferpools Screen (Part 2)

In the first post on db2top’s Bufferpools screen, we saw aggregates across all of the buffer pools in the database. In this second part, you will see what db2top reports for individual buffer pools. For […]

db2top Bufferpools Screen (Part 1)

Considering the dramatic differences in speed between memory access and disk access, it is not surprising that DB2’s own documentation claims that configuring buffer pools is the single most important tuning area for DB2. In […]

db2top Tablespaces Screen (Part 2)

In the first post in this series, we saw gauges and aggregates of table space information across all the table spaces in your database. In today’s post, you will see how db2top presents individual table […]