zSeries customers are always looking for ways to improve the performance of their business systems. With a few tuning tips from this paper, they can achieve remarkable performance results.

This IBM Redpaper contains some real world experiences involving initial tuning considerations of PeopleSoft North American Payroll Version 8.8 for DB2 Version 7.1 under the IBM z/OS™ 1.2 operating environment.

Introduction

Business product background

Environment profile

Workload

Payroll benchmark details

Tuning considerations

Other performance changes

Appendix A. Tablespace sizing

Appendix B. Table and tablespace mappings

Appendix C. Tablespace lock settings

Appendix D. Bufferpool configurations

The team that wrote this Redpaper