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Enterprise Data Warehousing with DB2 9 for z/OS

An IBM Redbooks publication

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Published on 12 September 2008

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ISBN-10: 0738431400
ISBN-13: 9780738431406
IBM Form #: SG24-7637-00


Authors: Paolo Bruni, Gaurav Bhagat, Lothar Goeggelmann, Sreenivasa Janaki, Andrew Keenan, Cristian Molaro and Frank Neumann

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    Abstract

    Enterprises look more and more to business intelligence (BI) to gain a competitive edge. Today's BI systems incorporate large data warehouses that are consolidated with near real-time operational data stores (ODS) and continuously updated from multiple sources. An increasing number of users in the enterprise want to access the data warehouse with BI applications with real-time needs.

    There is a renewed interest in the ability to implement a data warehouse solution on DB2® for z/OS® and System z™. This is due to the inherent characteristics of security, availability, performance, mixed workload management, and the growing portfolio of data warehousing tools and functions provided by IBM®.

    In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we focus on today's software components on System z and show how you can use them to realize the infrastructure for a full data warehouse solution. By using a retail business scenario loosely based on the TPC-H benchmark, we guide you through the warehouse implementation steps. In addition, we highlight the available methods, techniques, and technologies for the deployment of this solution, including reporting and analysis with Cognos 8 BI.

    This book provides an opportunity for you to look at satisfying the operational needs of corporate users in addition to the longer term needs. In addition, business decision makers, architects, implementors, DBAs, and data acquisition specialists can use this book to gain a better understanding of how a data warehouse can be designed, implemented, and used.

    Table of Contents

    Part 1. Data warehouse today

    Chapter 1. Definitions

    Chapter 2. Evolution of business intelligence

    Chapter 3. Why implement a data warehouse on System z

    Chapter 4. The architecture for the BI solution on System z

    Part 2. Design and implementation of our warehouse scenario

    Chapter 5. The business scenario and data models

    Chapter 6. The system environment

    Chapter 7. Functions in DB2 for z/OS for a data warehouse

    Chapter 8. Q replication and event publishing

    Chapter 9. Setting up ETL components for a data warehouse

    Chapter 10. Full load using DataStage

    Chapter 11. Incremental update with DataStage

    Chapter 12. An operational business intelligence implementation

    Chapter 13. Reporting and analysis with Cognos 8 BI

    Chapter 14. Reporting with IBM DataQuant, QMF, and AlphaBlox

    Part 3. Appendixes

    Appendix A. Index compression jobs

    Appendix B. Schema definitions

    Appendix C. Additional material

     

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