Demystifying Online DB2 for z/OS Migration

Increasingly customers must keep their applications online and available all hours of every day, 24X7. Fortunately, the DB2 migration process has been designed specifically to allow the business application set to continue to run while we migrate. Some customers have perfected online migrations in their environment while others have performed an online migration without realizing that their migration was online. Still others insist that the only way to ensure a successful migration is to take a full application outage. We will discuss exactly what the migration process does. Along the way we'll talk about the factors that affect a successful migration online and how to go about mitigating any interference with an online migration.

Tracks: Application Development, Software Architecture and z/OS Systems Programming