SCDBFAST

This Storage Class is intended for table spaces belonging to

 

applications requiring performance. It provides high performance

 

and good availability.

 

 

SCDBCRIT

This Storage Class is intended for table spaces belonging to

 

critical applications. It provides high performance and continuous

 

availability. SMS attempts to place these table spaces on disks

 

with dual copy or on RAID.

 

 

SCDBTEST

This Storage Class is intended for environments with lower

 

requirements. Examples are test systems, development systems,

 

and data warehouse environments. These table spaces will have

 

average performance and average availability.

 

Table 12. SMS Storage Classes for DB2 Databases

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCDBMED

SCDBFAST

SCDBCRIT

SCDBTEST

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIRECT RESPONSE (MSEC)

 

10

5

5

20

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIRECT BIAS

 

 

 

Yes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEQUENTIAL RESPONSE (MSEC)

 

10

5

5

20

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEQUENTIAL BIAS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUSTAINED DATA RATE (MB/sec)

 

10

20

20

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

AVAILABILITY a

 

Preferred

Preferred

Continuous

Standard

ACCESSIBILITY b

 

Standard

Standard

Standard

Standard

GUARANTEED SPACE

 

No

No

No

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

GUARANTEED SYNCHRONOUS WRITE

 

No

No

No

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

CACHE SET NAME

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CF DIRECT WEIGHT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CF SEQUENTIAL WEIGHT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a. Continuous=Duplexed or RAID Disk, Preferred=Array Disk, Standard=Array or Simplex Disk

b. If a device with Concurrent Copy capability is desired, specify Continuous or Continuous Preferred

6.1.4 SMS Management Class

Table 13 on page 50 shows three examples of Management Classes for DB2 table spaces. The purpose of these three Management Classes is to allow different DFSMShsm specifications for DB2 table spaces and index spaces. These Management Classes are:

MCDB20

This Management Class is intended for production table spaces

 

and table spaces that require average or higher availability. This

 

Management Class inhibits DFSMShsm migration of table

 

spaces.

MCDB21

This Management Class is intended for table spaces that are

 

allowed to migrate. This Management Class causes migration

 

after one week of inactivity; and after two weeks in level 1, the

 

table space will migrate to level 2. For example, this Management

 

Class can be used for Data Warehouse table spaces.

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IBM 5695-DF1, 5655-DB2 manual SMS Management Class

5695-DF1, 5655-DB2 specifications

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