On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:25:51 +0100, R.S. wrote: >Timothy Sipples wrote: >> DB2 Version 9 for z/OS available March 16, 2007: >> >> http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS207-041/ENUS207041.PDF >> >> More stuff moves into 64-bit land, lots of XML goodies, increased zIIP >> affinity [...] > >So, more XLM, more Java more other modern stuff. How many installations >really use it ? I am fairly sure my site will be using it but I don't know their schedule. >Can I use zIIP for my COBOL based application using CICS for online >regular COBOL-DB2 for batch? Yes, you can! Here's how: You run your shiny new DB2 work on the zIIP which frees up your non-z??P processors for your COBOL based applications using CICS. Really simple!
(You asked if you can use the zIIP but you didn't ask if you could run COBOL on the zIIP.) My site has 4 zAAPs and 1 zIIP (so far) and we found that the zIIP was used MUCH more often than we (or IBM) had predicted. As I type this the zIIP is running around 35-40% busy with the CPs at 99%. Some days the zIIP is in the 90-99% range but the DB2 workload isn't busy right now. (By the way, Tim isn't an 'old guy' like most posters on this list. He is moderately young (certainly by ibm-main standards) and very enthusiastic for the z/Series platforms. Lets keep him that way.) -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
