Businesses of all sizes are recognizing the powerful effect that data analysis can have on decision-making, resulting in the increasing deployment of Business Intelligence (BI) applications and solutions. This IBM Redbooks publication contains approaches and methodologies that help you do capacity planning for the system resources that support BI applications accessing DB2 on OS/390.

Written for S/390 capacity planners, it includes the following:

A discussion of the fundamental concepts of BI environments

A structured methodology for doing a capacity plan for the S/390 BI hardware and software infrastructure

A detailed description of how experienced capacity planners can modify traditional S/390 capacity planning techniques to address the unique characteristics of BI environments

A set of worksheets to help you and your team members develop a S/390 BI infrastructure capacity plan

This book addresses capacity planning for the S/390 Business Intelligence infrastructure, which includes processors, memory, I/O subsystems and DASD; it does not address capacity planning of network or non-S/390 hardware platforms.

Chapter 1. Introduction to capacity planning

Chapter 2. Resource usage attributes of a query workload

Chapter 3. Data maintenance

Chapter 4. Characterization of existing workloads

Chapter 5. Establishing current system usage

Chapter 6. Growing existing workloads

Chapter 7. Sizing methodologies for new applications

Chapter 8. Estimating model size for IBM DB2 OLAP Server

Chapter 9. Sizing IM for Data for performance

Appendix A. Sample worksheets

Appendix B. Data models

Appendix C. Data Propagator Relational( DPropR)

Appendix D. Capture ratios