Reviewing performance during internal design

You should review performance objectives during the internal design of your system.

Procedure

During the internal design phase, you must:

  1. Refine your estimated workload against the actual workload.
  2. Refine disk access estimates against database design. After internal design, you can define physical data accesses for application-oriented processes and estimate buffer hit ratios.
  3. Add the accesses for Db2 work file database, Db2 log, program library, and Db2 sorts.
  4. Consider whether additional processor loads can cause a significant constraint.
  5. Refine estimates of processor usage.
  6. Estimate the internal response time as the sum of processor time and synchronous I/O time or as asynchronous I/O time, whichever is larger.
  7. Prototype your Db2 system. Before committing resources to writing code, you can create a small database, update the statistics stored in the Db2 catalog tables, run SQL statements and examine the results.