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Data management tools for the era of big data Manage your IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows database and applicationsdelivering valuable intelligence to make informed decisions, fast

Data management tools for the era of big data

1 2 3 4 5Introduction Accelerate

developmentOptimize performance

Increase availability

Give your business a competitive edge


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Introduction

In todays competitive global environment, businesses must become more nimble, adapting and responding to changes in market conditions or customer preferences at a moments notice. Access to timely, accurate information is critical for enterprises that are striving to better serve their customers, compete successfully and foster innovation. But delivering the key information required to make informed decisions, given explosive growth in the amount of data collected and consumed daily, is a tall order.

For IT managers, managing and delivering data is more challenging than ever. You must bring new applications online quickly to improve the performance of databases, applications and work teams. At the

same time, you must prevent runaway infrastructure spending, meet demanding service-level agreements (SLAs), mitigate compliance risks and support ever-more-complex, heterogeneous IT environments.

This e-book explores how data management tools for IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows help you increase productivity and maximize the efficiency of your database resources. It illustrates how the tools are tightly integrated with DB2 with BLU Acceleration to deliver a scalable, high-performance platform and a unified

1 Introduction 2 Accelerate development 3 Optimize performance 4 Increase availability 5 Gain a competitive edge

How can you balance information-driven demands with the need for a robust, dependable, flexible data infrastructure to meet daily business challenges?

environment that enables you to cost-effectively manage data throughout its lifecycle. And it describes how data management tools can help you accelerate development, optimize performance, increase availability and simplify access to enterprise datawhile enabling powerful analytics capabilities for business users at all levels to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across the enterprise.


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Accelerate development

Improving your competitive position in an evolving market requires both speed and agility. You must deliver enterprise-ready, data-centric applications rapidly, yet be able to adapt to changing customer demands and market fluctuations. The need for greater collaboration between business, application and data groups makes this challenge even more difficult; your organization must work across roles, geographies and business units while remaining flexible and responsive. At the same time, you must adopt emerging programming methodologies, observe regulatory compliance standards and automate data discovery and design tasks.


Collaborate

Empower developers to write high-quality code more rapidly using optimized frameworks.

Reduce time-to-market and enhance compliance by modeling data assets and automating database design processes.

Develop

Reduce the risk, costs and time associated with database testing processes to meet SLAs.

Add realistic test rigor by capturing and replaying production workloads to test upgrades, migrations and tuning changes.

Test

Improve cross-team collaboration with a development process that spans database, application and data access requirements.

Increase data quality and consistency with shared policies, models and methods.

Enhance productivity with a common solution across roles.

Centralize database health monitoring and job management.

Use change management capabilities to alter objects, permissions and dependencies.

Tune queries for best performance.

Support DB2 migration projects with automation.

Manage

Database administration, development and testing tools from IBM enhance your DB2 foundation and amplify its strengths.

They help accelerate development, expedite deployment, simplify database administration and support cross-team collaboration for higher productivity.


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Simplify administration and reduce common errors to increase productivityManual or fragmented processes are prone to inefficiency and error. The answer is to cost-effectively automate repetitive, error-prone processes. IBM tools provide out-of-the box database development, management and health monitoring capabilities that help you save time, improve productivity and reduce common administration errors from repetitive or error-prone tasks. They also help increase data efficiency and reduce the time and cost needed to meet data governance requirements, including regulatory mandates.


We think that Data Studio is a comprehensive, reliable, stable and complete solution for designing, administering and monitoring databases as well as tuning SQL queries for performance.

Metin Deniz and Onur Basturk, Computer Research and Application Center Experts, Anadolu University,

Turkey


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Recognize enterprise change issues sooner with realistic testing To stay competitive, organizations must constantly enhance products and services to meet and exceed competitive offerings. But changes can be disruptive and expensive. For instance, application changes may impact database performance and execution accuracy, or migrating to a new version of the database management system (DBMS) may cause production delays and the need to roll back the update. Unfortunately, data teams arent always equipped with the right testing software to mirror the production environment.

Even if the team spends weeks or months preparing test scripts to simulate production workloads, they are still left with internally fabricated use cases or approximations that may not reflect real-world situations.

IBM tools for administration, development and testing can help you save time, cut costs and meet SLAs by capturing production workloads and replaying them realistically to test upgrades, perform migrations or complement new application testing. Captured production workloads include all the information needed for real-life simulation, such as threads, user

sessions, the original application timing, order of execution, transaction boundaries, isolation levels, and other SQL and application characteristics. You can test changes to database environments and tune them without compromising the production database performance, easily develop accurate and streamlined tests, or plan for growth and capacity. Furthermore, you can significantly reduce test effort by as much as 75 percent or more per database.1 IBM development and testing tools help you perform the operational transformations your organization needs to compete with confidence.


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Improve collaboration to use common resources more efficientlyCross-lifecycle, cross-role and cross-organization collaboration is critical to aligning processes and reducing overall operating costs. Fragmented development and administrative processes hamper collaboration, and waste time and money.

IBM tools for database administration, development and testing provide a collaborative data design solution, facilitating development processes that span database, application and data access needs. These tools can be used to discover, model, relate and standardize diverse and distributed data. They enable organizations to standardize business terms, data naming, data values, data

access privileges and data privacy, providing the basis for greater automation and governance of design, development, test and deployment processes.


To achieve a more efficient data environment, we implemented InfoSphere Data Architect. We have used IDA to help foster collaboration and drive efficiencies among IT professionals and have lowered our administrative costs. We are now better able to manage our data and support our business growth objectives.

Ferran Rodenas Barcelo, Lead Architect, La Caixa


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Optimize performance

In the rush to create applications that support the business in a quickly changing market, performance and efficiency are not always top priorities. As data volumes and usage grow, these applications cant keep up; they may become sluggish and unresponsive, forcing organizations to add hardware and staffincluding overtime and short-notice workersjust to maintain performance. Poor application performance also leads to customer churn, missed SLAs and revenue lossnone of which have a positive effect on a companys reputation.

Organizations need a comprehensive solution to proactively manage performance across the data environment. IBM tools for managing and optimizing performance help you implement a best-practice methodology

to identify, diagnose, solve and prevent performance bottlenecks. Through a guided, proactive problem-solving approach, the

tools enable you to manage the overall health of your application environment and rapidly deploy applications for immediate value.


Receive early notifications of problems before they impact production.

Quickly isolate problems across database, network and application layers.

Get visibility into problems by workload to prioritize response.

Identify

Follow guided workflows to diagnose issues.

Get complete views of data, from real time to any time.

Dig into the root causes of problems with detailed drill-down capabilities.

Use built-in integration to leverage data from other IBM solutions.

Spot changes that may be related to performance slowdowns.

Diagnose

Receive easy-to-understand, actionable recommendations for problem resolution.

Tune entire workloads to balance costs across query and insert actions.

Minimize slowdowns that impact user productivity and revenue.

Solve

Capture and analyze real-time and historical data for capacity planning and growth.

Proactively optimize the performance of query workloads, database and applications.

Configure DB2 Workload Manager to allocate resources according to business priority.

Foster cross-team collaboration to improve security, performance and manageability.

Prevent


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Empower your team for true end-to-end performance management The performance management and optimization solution for DB2 covers the entire chain of events, from detection of a performance issue through its analysis and resolution:

Monitoring and diagnosis: Using performance management tools, organizations can proactively monitor database environments, receive notification if a problem arises and then pinpoint the source of the problem.

Optimization: Once a performance issue is identified, the tools provide actionable recommendations to optimize database and application performance. You can even get expert advice on what tables to convert to column orientation based on workload analysis and estimated benefits.

Performance and security: Organizations can use the tools to enhance the performance and security of an application without changing the existing legacy application code. The tools also help reduce the time needed to go live with newly developed applications.

Optim Performance Manager is a comprehensive tool for troubleshooting and performance tuning. With this tool, we can answer many more questions related to what is happening in the databases. That deepens and extends our understanding of them.

Victor Dong, Database Systems Manager,

TransUnion



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IBM InfoSphere Optim Configuration Manager is a great tool for exploiting both the Adaptive Compression and Multi-Temperature Data Management features in DB2. I would definitely make use of InfoSphere Optim Configuration Managers features to find contiguous space on disks for better I/O performance and allocate the most efficient storage devices for the most demanded data.

Juvenal Garcia Cuevas, Consulting Manager, SBRT Computing

InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner makes it easy to determine which tables can benefit from DB2 BLU Acceleration for big performance improvement gains in BI and analytics.

Jean-Marc Blaise, IT Solutions Architect and DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows expert, Delta DB


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Increase availability

Customers and partners expect uninterrupted access to your systems and services at all times. Unplanned database outages place customer satisfaction and goodwill at risk, causing potential revenue loss and brand damage, as well as driving up operational costs.

And yet many companies dont have an effective backup and recovery strategy, even when they clearly understand the value of creating one and the dangers of going without. Others have a strategy, but the processes involved are complex and time-consuming, lengthening the time to recover beyond what the businessand marketfinds acceptable.


The recover phase only took about 17 minutes to recover the table that took about 3 hours 40 minutes before.

Senior DBA, Large Insurance

Company in USA


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To meet the ever-increasing expectations of partners and customers, IBM provides the comprehensive DB2 Advanced Recovery feature, which enables you to safeguard data, speed recovery, maximize application uptime and minimize the cost of downtime.

The DB2 Advanced Recovery feature helps ensure your environment is available in the face of exploding data volumes and potential disasters, giving you the tools to deal with day-to-day human error as well as environmental catastrophes. It helps you continue to meet SLAs when demand increases, and in the case of an outage, quickly recover to the point of failure. The DB2 Advanced Recovery Feature also provides options for incrementally backing up databases to minimize backup times

and accelerate recovery. The benefit of having a comprehensive recovery feature is clear: you gain the capabilities to build and carry out an efficient, effective data availability strategy that will help keep your


Back up databases efficiently.

Maintain a current full backup.

Minimize production impact and accelerate recovery.

Meet SLAs with pure unload performance.

Migrate full data and systems.

Minimize production impact and reduce storage cost.

Increase data protection and regulatory compliance.

Recover with precise granularity as well as flexibility.

Minimize impact on production with remote log analysis.

Reduce recovery time and resources by automating the process of rebuilding database assets to a correct point-in-time.

Backup Recover Unload

customers and partners up and running. At the same time, it helps you safeguard data integrity, and minimize the costs of downtime and data administrationso you can get on with business.


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Enhancing availability with the IBM DB2 Advanced Recovery Feature

A large retail company based in Germany significantly reduced the time required to export large tables after adopting IBM InfoSphere Optim High Performance Unload. The process used to take 15 to 25 hours, but according to a DBA at the company, The unload/load of our biggest table (about 35

billion rows and compressed 2 TB data) was finished after 40 minutes. Thats quite fast. The solution helped the retail company improve data availability, mitigate risk and accelerate the delivery of customer database migration without impacting the database production server and the end user.

A Wall Street bank uses DB2 Merge Backup to provide high-speed, logical recovery capability for large data warehouses up to 200 TB. The solution can combine incremental and delta backups with an older full backup to quickly create a new full backup without affecting application processing.

I am very excited about DB2 Merge Backup because we are building large data warehouses and we will never have to take a full backup again (except for new releases), says an executive IT specialist at the bank. Warehouses are getting so big that software backups are starting to not be viable...Merge Backup is a powerful tool to provide a logical recovery capability for large warehouses.


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Analyze

Give your business a competitive edge

Todays organizations need new ways to differentiate their products and services from those of their competitors. At the same time, they must enhance operational efficiencies. To heighten both competitive differentiation and operational agility, organizations must maximize the use of information collected within and beyond the enterprise. This information holds the key to improving customer service and generating highly targeted product offerings, while also supporting fraud detection and enhancing the accuracy of financial risk analysis.

In an increasingly dynamic environment, organizations must collect information in various forms and from various sources to gain the insight and efficiency they need to create fresh business opportunities,

contain costs and satisfy client needs. Information that is structured and unstructured, operational and transactional, as well as real-time and historical may be scattered throughout the enterprise and

delivered by various outside sources that are beyond the direct influence of the enterprise. Information may reside in databases, data marts and data warehouses; emails and transaction logs; customer call logs; shopper


Empower developers to build and maintain the lifecycle of warehouse activities with an integrated development environment.

Reduce time-to-value with modeling and validation of structures required for data mining, as well as multidimensional and embedded analytics.

Simplify intra-warehouse data movement and transformation by building efficient, flexible and reusable data flows.

Manage and monitor BI applications, warehouse building operations (ETL) and status.

Create data sources and enable databases for analysis (OLAP and mining).

Exchange cubing and mining models across different applicationsnamely, in-database mining with SAS and advanced analytics with IBM SPSS.

Discover and understand the relationships in your data using a multidimensional view.

Get in-database insights directly, in real time, to prevent customer churn or detect fraud.

Integrate easily with other reporting tools such as IBM Cognos, with its rich BI capabilities and zero upfront cost, to gain rapid business value and insight from data.

Develop Administer


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behavior data; and repair orders. It may even live in XML data locked inside transactional systems that cannot be used or analyzed in the enterprise database.

To turn this information into insight, it must first be discovered, collected and verified for quality. Then it is analyzed to find the hidden relationships, patterns and trends that help generate actionable insights to achieve improved efficiencies and competitive benefits.

DB2 provides a comprehensive, multipurpose environment that allows organizations to access, analyze and act on operational and historical information, whether structured

or unstructured. Its advanced design, administration and analytic capabilities help simplify data warehouse and analytics development and deployment. Moreover, DB2 data warehouse tools present transformed data in the most informative possible way, and allow business users to interrogate this information to accelerate the delivery of business intelligence (BI) that drives successful results.

To that end, DB2 helps simplify time-consuming data movement and transformation during the extract, transform and load (ETL) process for intra-warehouse data movement tasks. Unlike tools that require users to extract data from the

warehouse, independently analyze it and then send the results back to the warehouse, DB2 provides embedded data mining, modeling and scoring capabilities. Embedded analytics enable business users to work with current data and deliver analytics in real time to quickly discover revenue opportunities. Cubing Services for online analytical processing (OLAP) enable multidimensional data analysis without extracting data from the warehouse. In addition, Cubing Services cubes are first-class data providers to the Cognos Business Intelligence platform for incorporating predictive and analytic insights into Cognos reports.


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Make better decisions, faster Deliver trusted information throughout your information supply chain. Quickly analyze your data to identify breakdowns and avoid future problems. Gain insights to help your organization make better decisions and optimize business processes. No matter what your data challenges are, you can look to IBM for the tools you need.

DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows and data management tools for DB2 provide an ideal foundation for your data. The tools are tightly integrated with DB2 with BLU Acceleration to deliver a scalable, high-performance platform and a unified environment that enable you to cost-effectively manage data throughout its lifecycle.


Businesses are awash with ever-growing amounts of data of all types, easily amassing terabyteseven petabytes of information. Data availability is therefore essential; IBM can help you keep your data systems up and running, extract maximum value from your information and give your business a competitive edge.


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Additional resources

To learn more about IBM DB2 and data management tools for DB2, check out the following resources.

DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows

DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition

DB2 Advanced Recovery Features


DB2 Advanced Workgroup Server Edition

InfoSphere Optim Query Capture and Replay

Data management tools for DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows

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1 Based on reported beta clients testing. Individual results will vary depending on individual configurations and conditions, including table size and content.

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