This IBM Redbooks publication presents many of the new and improved features and functions of DB2 V9.1 for z/OS and DB2 Connect V9.1. It explains how they complement and benefit your SAP NetWeaver environment. This book also shares some of our experiences in migrating our DB2 V8 SAP data sharing environment to DB2 9 for z/OS with a minimal amount of outage.

This book is written for SAP and DB2 administrators. Knowledge of these products and of the z/OS environment is assumed.

Chapter 1. DB2 9 for z/OS new and improved functions overview

Chapter 2. Facilitating DB2 subsystem cloning

Chapter 3. New and enhanced data types

Chapter 4. New and enhanced index capabilities

Chapter 5. Reporting statistical data

Chapter 6. Security

Chapter 7. Optimized recovery

Chapter 8. New functions for SAP high availability in DB2 9 for z/OS

Chapter 9. DB2 Connect V9.1

Chapter 10. SAP with System z Integrated Information Processor

Chapter 11. Performance topics

Chapter 12. New in SQL

Chapter 13. Administration

Chapter 14. Enhancements to manage and administer SAP on DB2 9 for z/OS

Chapter 15. Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex

Chapter 16. Benefits of DB2 9 for z/OS to SAP BI

Appendix A. Migration technique

Appendix B. Project test environment

Appendix C. zIIP measurements

Appendix D. Work file and temporary table space changes