Boole & Babbage enhances MainView for DB2 to support upcoming IBM DB2 for MVS/ESA version 4 release; new analysis and reporting available for all DB2 v4 features and the coupling facility in Parallel Sysplex Architectures.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1995--Boole & Babbage, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BOOL) today announced enhancements to its MainView for DB2 product family that support the new IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) DB2 v4 release. Two products within the MainView for DB2 product family, MV MANAGER for DB2 v4 and RxD2 2.1, have been upgraded to exploit Parallel Sysplex IBM's System/390 clustering architecture. It allows multiple System/390 computers to work together as a single system. It supports data sharing with guaranteed integrity, extensive resource sharing and sophisticated workload balancing. environments and provide detailed performance and tuning information on all new DB2 v4 features. In addition, Boole & Babbage is one of the only vendors providing Sysplex exploitation in its products, free of charge to current customers holding a valid maintenance contract. New DB2 v4 features include data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. , support for the coupling facility The hardware and software that turns an IBM mainframe Base Sysplex system into a Parallel Sysplex. It is made up of special microcode built into the machine, and the CFCC operating system (Coupling Facility Control Code). , row-level locking (database) row-level locking - A technique used in database management systems, where a row is locked for writing to prevent other users from accessing data being while it is being updated. Other techniques are table locking and MVCC. , read-through locks and type 2 indexes. MainView for DB2 provides DBAs and applications programmers with comprehensive displays and reports that include information about data sharing, group buffer pool activity and status, and global locking, as well as thread usage of these global resources. LOCK contention displays and traces now report on all of the new lock conditions for data sharing and row-level locking. Other displays provide information about stored procedure activity, CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output parallelism, and new EXPLAIN options. Additional enhancements to MV MANAGER for DB2 and RxD2 include 30 new resource and workload monitors that issue warnings about exception conditions for group buffer pools, global locks, stored procedures, accounting class 3 waits and CPU parallelism. "MainView for DB2 helps DBAs and applications programmers manage the increased functionality of DB2 v4 through Single System Image views, cursor-sensitive navigation and accurate subsystem analysis," said Mike Bunyard, Boole & Babbage senior director, large systems marketing. "With MainView for DB2, users can quickly and easily access information about any DB2 subsystem across an entire Parallel Sysplex." The MainView family of products concurrently support Parallel Sysplex and traditional MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. environments, as well as multiple subsystem releases. MainView provides large systems performance monitoring, management and automation through a common window interface, and is an integral component of the Boole & Babbage enterprise automation suite. The MainView for DB2 products provide resource and workload performance monitoring and management for control of multiple DB2 subsystems. Boole & Babbage is a worldwide leader in enterprise automation solutions for managing distributed systems. The company works in partnership with customers to boost systems availability, reduce overall computing costs and strategically automate the entire IT enterprise. Through advanced interoperability, its proven solutions let customers gain proactive control of their distributed computing environments -- from mainframe to desktop and legacy to client/server. Boole & Babbage products complement Help Desk, data center operations, network and systems administration and storage management. Boole & Babbage has 42 offices in 26 countries, including three data centers and four developments labs. The company's products are available through direct channels and a worldwide network of distributors and resellers. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Boole & Babbage is a registered trademark of Boole & Babbage Inc. MainView, MV MANAGER and RxD2 are trademarks of Boole & Babbage Inc. IBM is a trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp. CONTACT: Boole & Babbage Shelly Gordon, 408/526-3430 sgordon@boole.com |
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