Achieving low overhead in a Journal-intensive environment and assuring your applications, hardware settings, and journal tuning parameters are optimally set is a challenge. There are so many new choices as parameters on the CHGJRN command and even more on the STRJRN commands. How do you know where to start? Wouldn't it be wonderful if there were some tools you could use to analyze your current journal performance and then decide where to make your next hardware or software or tuning investment so as to reap the best benefits? You're not the first shop that has faced this dilemma. i5/ OS™ provides some of the underpinnings from which you can develop such tools. Come hear about performance feedback counters, trace points, hidden tasks, and some neat reports and queries you can formulate so as to get a "handle" on taming this tiger.

By the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
1. Identify the newest Journal-tuning choices.
2. Capitalize on the newest Journal tuning performance feedback values.
3. Match performance feedback with specific corrective steps they can take.