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Preface
This redbook will help you tailor and configure DFSMS constructs to be used in a
DB2 for OS/390 environment. In addition, this redbook provides a broad
understanding of new disk architectures and their impact in DB2 data set
management for large installations.
This book addresses both the storage administrator and the DB2 administrator.
The DB2 administrator will find information on how to use DFSMS for managing
DB2’s data sets. The storage administrator will find information on the
characteristics of DB2 data sets and how DB2 uses the disks.
After introducing the overall topics of this book, we provide a summary of our
conclusions. This will be especially useful for readers responsible for organizing
and managing DB2 data in an installation.
The Team That Wrote This Redbook
This redbook was produced by a team of specialists from around the world
working at the International Technical Support Organization San Jose Center.
Paolo Bruni is a Data Management Specialist for DB2 for OS/390 at the
International Technical Support Organization, San Jose Center, where he
conducts projects on all areas of DB2 for OS/390. Paolo has been with IBM for 30
years and has been mostly working with data base management systems.
Hans Duerr is an independent database consultant, specializing in mainframe
databases, mainly DB2 for OS/390. He has 17 years of experience with DB2 and
has worked for 33 years with IBM in many different countries. He holds a degree
in Engineering from the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso,
Chile. He has been an assignee to the ITSO and has published several red books
and conducted workshops in the data management area. Hans is currently based
in Madrid, Spain, from where he supports customers all over the world.
Daniel Leplaideur is a technical marketing support specialist at the EMEA ATSC
SSD Large System Disks in Mainz. He is based in Paris. Daniel joined IBM in
1967 as a mathematician to develop packages for customers. Since then he
worked in the field as Systems Engineer for large accounts. His current areas of
expertise are Large System Disks such as RVAs, Disaster/Recovery with XRC,
PPRC-GDPS, and DFSMS. He teamworks with EMEA local, ISC and Lab people
on ESPs and Disaster/Recovery projects.
Steve Wintle is a systems programmer working for General Electric (Information
Delivery Services division), and is based in the United Kingdom. He has 20 years
of experience in the MVS field. His areas of expertise include operations support
and storage management.