DB2 9 & 10 for z/OS Overview

Migration Planning WorkshopUNLOAD Spanned Record Support…• LOB and XML columns can now be UNLOADed or LOADedto/from the same data set with other non-LOB/XMLcolumns via spanned records– Performance of reading from or writing to a single sequentialfile is much faster than using separate files or partition dataset members because the utilities will not have to useOpen/Close for each LOB– When unloading LOB/XML columns to a sequential file,LOBs and XML documents will be written at the end of therecord in their column definition order188© 2011 IBM Corporation