DB2 10 for z/OS: Cost Savings . . . Right Out of the Box

Dave Beulke, Roger Miller, Surekha Parekh, and Julian Stuhler
First Edition
First Printing—September 2010
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The book is segmented in three sections:

1. An introduction to DB2 10 by Roger Miller, highlighting the main features  and functions and their associated business benefits, such as real CPU savings.
2. A business value white paper by Julian Stuhler, independent DB2 consultant.  Julian and I invited several beta clients to share not only their DB2 10 experiences but also perceived and actual business benefits.
3. The last section of the book is another valuable paper written by Dave Beulke,  who is also an independent consultant. This paper demonstrates how DB2 10 is a tremendous step forward in database technology because of its improvements in performance, scalability, availability, and security and application integration. Dave’s paper focuses on performance enhancements.