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Modifying DB2 database variables to improve Maximo performance.

Question & Answer


Question

How to modify DB2 registry variables to improve performance and decrease number of locks owned by MAXIMO application.

Cause

MAXIMO application running slow and shows a large number of locks.

Answer

The following DB variables should be set to "ON"
DB2_EVALUNCOMMITTED
DB2_SKIPDELETED
DB2_SKIPINSERTED

Please run commands as follows, the sysadm authorisation level is required:

1) db2set -all

The output of this command would provide the names and values of registry variables that have been set.

If any of the above variables have not been set please run repeating for every variable:

db2set DB2_SKIPDELETED=ON

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

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