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Db2 12

How do I keep up with this stuff ??Or…….Add your tag line here

Michael CotignolaDb2 Software ConsultantBMC Software

So, what’s new with Db2 12

We’ll take a quick look at the usual suspects:

Reliability, Availability, Scalability, Security

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But….we can’t forget about:

Analytics, Autonomics, Cloud, Mobile

So, what’s new with Db2 12

• Performance

• Performance Management

• Changes for Applications

• Scalability

• Availability

• Security

• Utilities

• Migration

• And….. Continuous Delivery

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Performance

Better use of storage

• CONTIGUOUS bufferpools for in memory tables

• Improvement for PGSTEAL(NONE)

– Direct access to row in memory

– Avoid LRU and hash chain management

– Reduces GETPAGE overhead

• Automatic overflow area if objects are too large

– Managed by Db2

• Could “save up to 8% cpu for OLTP”

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In-memory indexes

• Index “Fast Traverse Block”…or FTB

• Memory Optimized Structure– New zPARM (index_memory_control)

• Storage area separate from bufferpools– Default is 10MB or 20% of allocated bufferpools

• Usage managed by Db2– DB2 determines which indexes will benefit

– Unique Indexes, <64 Bytes

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In-memory indexes

• -DISPLAY STATS cmd to show usage– IFCIDs 389 and 477 for more details

– DSNI070I

• Indexes can be excluded if needed– SYSIBM.SYSINDEXCONTROL catalog table

• “Up to 23% CPU reduction” for index lookup

– From IBM material

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New insert algorithm

• Advanced new Insert Algorithm– New zparm

– CREATE or ALTER TS DDL

• Up to 20% cpu REDUCTION– From IBM material

• With increased throughput– Insert Algorithm 2 IFCID changes

– DSNI055I

• Over 11 MILLION inserts per SECOND– Your mileage will vary…..

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Generalized Performance Expectations - OLTP

• Numbers from IBM material

– 2%-3% cpu reduction

– Increases to 5%-10% with Index FTB

– Contiguous bufferpools can improve this even further

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Generalized Performance Expectations - Query

• Numbers from IBM material

– 0%-20% cpu reduction with older access paths

– 10%-40% with new access paths

– Some may even see up to 90% cpu reduction

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Performance Management Changes

Dynamic SQL stability

• Bring advantages of static SQL bind to dynamic SQL

– Advanced plan management

– Predictable performance

– No “accidental” performance regression/degradation

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Dynamic SQL stability

• Allows dynamic SQL access paths to be retained in the catalog

• New SQL matched against stabilized plans before prepare/execute

• Access path can be read into cache from catalog

• Can EXPLAIN and FREE stabilized plans

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Dynamic SQL stability – but …

• No REBIND

– No PLANMGMT, SWITCH or APREUSE

• No literal concentration

• No TEMPORAL or Transparent Archive

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Changes for Applications

(Application Enablement)

Overview of selected changes• Piece-Wise delete

DELETE FROM MY_TABLEWHERE C1 = “CRITERIA”

• Can be coded as

DELETE FROM MY_TABLEWHERE C1 = “CRITERIA”FETCH FIRST 5000 ROWS ONLY;

COMMIT;

– Can intersperse COMMITs in large URs

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Overview of selected changes

• New Reserved Words

• RLF for Static SQL– RLFENABLE

• Automatic rebinds of Plans/Packages– ABIND Subsystem Parm

• Additional Support for TRIGGERs

– Advanced Triggers (SQL PL)

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Overview of selected changes

• New Built-In Functions– Generate_Unique

• Improved MERGE statement– DELETE support

– Additional source value support

– SIGNAL and IGNORE

– Additional predicate support

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Scalability

Addressing partition limits

• New UTS PBR called UTS PBR Relative Page Number (RPN)

• Eliminates relationship between number of parts and DSSIZE

• Pages are numbered PER PARTITION

• 7 byte RID – Up to 1TB partition size

– Up to 4PB table size (but not finished yet)

– 256 TRILLION rows per table space

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More on PBR RPN

• Zparm for system default

• PAGENUM ABSOLUTE/RELATIVE for DDL

– Can ALTER – this is a pending change

• Increasing DSSIZE is immediate

– No reorg needed

• Decreasing DSSIZE is a pending alter

– Still requires entire tablespace reorg

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CLOB, BLOB, SLOB, or GLOB?

What Do I Need for LOB Compression?

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• Db2 12 for z/OS

– This feature is available with M500 (“New Function”)

– Only for LOB’s on UTS bases

• z/EDC (“z Enterprise Data Compression”)

• z/OS 2.1 plus PTF’s (3/31/2014), z/OS 2.2, or z/OS 2.3

– z/EDC enabled in IFAPRDxx PARMLIB member

• Z12 or above, with the licensed hardware feature for compression

• APPLCOMPAT!

Basics of LOB Compression

• z/EDC compression is “dictionaryless”

• Compression technique is optimal for large sequential files

• Zlib API is used – software compression is available

• LOB space can be defined or altered to COMPRESS YES– ALTER to COMPRESS YES is deferred– Materializing REORG must be of LOB space (not AUX YES)

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Basics of LOB Compression

• DSN1COMP works on LOB spaces

• Zparm COMPRESS_DIRLOB compression of directory LOB’s

– On DBD01 and SPT01

– Default is ‘NO’

• Compression and expansion is done at time of I/O

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Useful Catalog Columns (1|2)

• COMPRESS in SYSTABLEPART (‘Y’ or ‘N’)

• PAGESAVE in SYSTABLEPART

– Saved by RUNSTATS after LOB table is compressed

• New values in SYSPENDINGDDL rows:

– OB JTYPE = ‘S’

– OPTION_KEYWORD = ‘COMPRESS’

– OPTION_VALUE = ‘YES’ or ‘NO’

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Useful Catalog Columns (2|2)

• TYPE in SYSTABLESPACE (must be ‘O’, for the LOB)

• NACTIVE in SYSTABLESPACE (must be “big”, for the LOB)

• TYPE in SYSTABLESPACE (must be ‘G’ or ‘R’, for the base)

• COLTYPE in SYSCOLUMNS (recommended it be ‘CLOB’)

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Catalog Queries ??

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SYSAUXRELS

PARTITION

SYSTABLESPACE

SYSTABLES NAME (Base)

NAMETYPE = ‘G’ OR TYPE = ‘R’

SYSCOLUMNS

NAMECOLTYPE = ‘CLOB’

NAME (LOB)

SYSTABLESPACE

NAMENACTIVE > n

NAMENACTIVEPGSIZESTATSTIME

SYSTABLES

NAMECOMPRESS <> ‘Y’

SYSTABLEPARTVCATPAGESAVESTATSTIME

SYSLOBSTATSAVGSIZESTATSTIME

NAME

DSN1COMP

//MYJOB JOB (ACCT),‘COMP',NOTIFY=&SYSUID,CLASS=A,

// MSGCLASS=X,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),REGION=0M

//*

//DSN1 EXEC PGM=DSN1COMP,PARM=LOB

//STEPLIB DD DSN=MY.LOAD.LIB,DISP=SHR

//SYSUT1 DD DSN=VCAT.DSNDBC.ID17.LOB1.I0001.A001,

// DISP=SHR

//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*

Summary

• Run catalog queries, starting from SYSAUXRELS– Look for bigger spaces, using NACTIVE in SYSTABLESPACE– Consider focusing on COLTYPE=‘CLOB’ in SYSCOLUMNS– Decide if you want to look only at UTS base tables

• Run DSN1COMP against your candidates– How much disk will you save, now and in the future?

• Look at accounting stats for LOB retrievals– How much will compression cost you in SQL execution?

• You now have a business case for your management

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Availability

Online Schema enhancements

• Insert partition

– No LOBS

• Index compression

– UTS only…..but….

• Column level alters (existing) can become pending alters

– Zparm (DDL_MATERIALIZATION)

– UTS only

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Security

Security changes

• Transfer of ownership

• Installation/Migration without SYSDADM

• UNLOAD privilege– IFCID 404

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Utilities

Reorg

• Reorg with only flashcopy now fails if the flash fails

• UTS PBG Reorg allows row overflow

• New keywords for PBG partition pruning– DROP_PART

• Support for COMPRESSRATIO catalog column– Also in Load and Runstats

• Reorg against RO objects– Needed for schema changes ??

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Load

• Better LOAD REPLACE of empty PBR parts

• Parallel load support for PBG SHRLEVEL CHANGE

• LOAD RESUME SHRLEVEL NONE BACKOUT YES– Avoids RECP on failure

– COPYPEND if LOG NO

• IGNORE option to ignore records excluded by WHEN clause– not treated as discard

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Recovery

• PIT recovery support for some alters of PBGs

– Page size, segsize, member cluster and dssize

• Skip Point In Time recovery for unchanged objects– SCOPE(UPDATED) default

– Override with SCOPE(ALL)

– TORBA, TOLOGPOINT

• DELETEDS

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Runstats

• INVALIDATECACHE– default NO– Except….

• Colgroup performance improvements– 25% CPU, 15% ET– COUNT integer automatically determined

• REGISTER NO– UNLOAD as well

• Changes to DSNACCOX to avoid more reorgs

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How do we get to Db2 12?

Migration from Db2 11

Migration requires

• z196 machine, or higher• At least z/OS v2.1• DFSMS V2.1 or later• RACF V2.1 or later• IRLM Version 2 Release 3

• And Db2 11 NFM

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Db2 pre-requisites

• Db2 11 with fallback SPEs

• BSDS supporting 10-byte RBAs

• No pre Db2 10 bound packages

• Basic Row Format is deprecated

– It still works, but…..

• Db2 12 may need more real storage than Db2 11

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Single phase migration

• No ENFM phase

• BNFA vs ANFA

• ACTIVATE FUNCTION LEVEL

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Continuous Delivery

Function levels

• Not enough time for an in-depth discussion…..but…..

• VERY loosely – “CM”

• is now going to be Function Level 100 (M100) or “BNFA”

– ENFM goes away• So we

-ACTIVATE FUNCTION LEVEL (V12R1M500)– To get to new Db2 12 function (ANFA)

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More on function levels

• To get to even newer functions, we just-ACTIVATE FUNCTION LEVEL (V12R1Mnnn)

• -DISPLAY GROUP will tell us where we are

– and where we’ve been

• There is also a TEST option for ACTIVATE

– To ensure that we CAN activate a new function level

– i.e., all the pieces are in place

• AND yes, we can “activate backwards”48

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Questions ?

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