In part 3 of this series on the db2top Agent screen, we will see statement-level and application-level information displayed on the Agent screen for DB2 systems that use the Data Partitioning Feature (DPF). Among other things, these higher level aggregates can help you identify problems of low sort heap allocation at the application level or [...]

In part 2 of this series on the db2top Agent screen, you will see just how much more detailed the Agent screen becomes on DB2 systems that have the Data Partitioning Feature (DPF). Not only can you see the individual subsections of an executing statement, but also how they are processed at each partition. You [...]

To understand on a deep level how DB2 for LUW executes your SQL, you need to understand the concepts of agents, subagents, sections, and subsections. DB2, especially with the Data Partitioning Feature (DPF),  takes advantage of parallelism, not only in running large numbers of SQL statements simultaneously, but also to execute efficiently the individual statements [...]