CDB Software Solutions Optimize Global Banking System’s DB2 Performance and Availability
European Banking and Financial Services Leader Benefits from Dramatic Performance Gains and True 24x7 Availability with CDB Intelligent Data Management Solutions
HOUSTON, November 28, 2006 - CDB Software, Inc., an industry leader in solutions for DB2 z/OS data management, today announced that BNP Paribas, a European leader in banking and financial services and one of the world's top 15 banks, has recently expanded their use of the CDB product line to support all z/OS platforms running DB2 applications throughout its corporate and subsidiary offices. A CDB Software customer since 1994, BNP Paribas continues to benefit from important performance gains, reduced CPU costs and assured 24x7 availability through its use of CDB Intelligent Data Management Solutions.
With operations in over 85 countries and more than 140,000 employees in five continents, BNP Paribas is one of the world’s leading banking and financial services groups. To power all of this global company’s retail banking and financial applications, BNP Paribas employs six IBM Mainframe Z9 systems in two physical sites for a total power of 35,000 MIPS. DB2 Data in this financial institution’s heavy-transaction production systems (>1000 transactions/second under IMS & CICS) alone occupy 10.2 terabytes which is dispatched into 1,604 databases containing a total of 11,000 Tablespaces and 25,000 indexes. For the BNP database administrators (DBAs) who are the caretakers of this vast warehouse of data, overall system reliability, availability and performance is nothing short of mission critical.
“CDB Software products continue to deliver an impressive return on investment in all aspects of our data center,” said Pierre Madelon, Head of Strategy and Coordination for IT Production, BNP Paribas. “Not only have CDB/Auto-Utilities reduced our overall system downtime and CPU costs, they have also enabled our IT staff to automate many tasks which are traditionally very tedious and time consuming, saving us hundreds, even thousands, of man hours. One example is CDB/Auto-Utilities’ unique non-disruptive automated restart feature which protects our essential data without any DBA intervention.”
BNP Paribas continues to trust its data center to CDB’s powerful Intelligent Data Management solutions because they offer the following benefits:
- Continuous data availability during a reorg: Employing a patented no-SORT process, CDB/Auto-Reorg will automatically determine what BNP Paribas tablespaces need to be reorged, dynamically allocate needed workspace and quickly reorg data without impacting its production system availability.
- Automatic full or incremental copies as necessary: Based on its own user-defined criteria, CDB/Auto-Online-Copy has helped BNP to reduce CPU and Elapsed times by automatically performing full or incremental copies as needed for assured data protection and recovery, with no impact on production data availability.
- High speed data movement without impacting production performance: With CDB/Auto-Load, BNP is assured continuous data availability while performing sophisticated data parsing, data conversion and data validation. And, with CDB/Auto-Online Unload, BNP can unload data directly from DB2 tables, Image Copies or DSN1COPY with significant speed and write to multiple output files in parallel from a single pass of the table while leaving the tables available to applications.
- DB2 statistics in a fraction of the time: CDB/Runstats makes it fast and easy for BNP to obtain accurate DB2 statistics to improve application performance.
“These intelligent solutions automate tedious tasks and help us ensure that we deliver the highest application performance and service levels to our banking customers worldwide. As a result, the suite of CDB Software products has been listed for three years as a registered solution in our ‘IT Norms and Standards’ guide for approved solutions that comply with our IT policies and procedures,” added Madelon.
About CDB Intelligent Data Management (IDM) Solutions
CDB IDM Solutions provide streamlined data management processes to enable enterprises to expand their DB2 environment as needed while reducing the burden and overall management cost of DB2 on z/OS. The CDB suite of IDM Solutions includes products for all facets of DB2 data management including database utilities, data archiving and purging, data replication and propagation, compliance and auditing, database mirroring, partition management and data and system recovery. For more information on CDB’s Intelligent Data Management Solutions visit www.cdbsoftware.com.
About CDB Software
CDB Software, Inc. is a leader in data management solutions for DB2 z/OS. CDB focuses its business on DB2 for z/OS to provide unique and innovative solutions that enable companies to expand their DB2 system to meet business needs while controlling the overall cost of the mainframe. Founded in 1985, CDB is a privately held corporation based in Houston, Texas with offices worldwide. For more information about CDB, visit: www.cdbsoftware.com.
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