STRANGE DISPLAY OF READ EFF IN BUFFER POOL LIST DISPLAY PANEL

Products

• RC Compare for DB2 for z/OS
• Bind Analyzer for DB2 for z/OS
• SQL-Ease for DB2 for z/OS
• SYSVIEW Performance Management Option for DB2 for z/OS
• Plan Analyzer for DB2 for z/OS
• Subsystem Analyzer for DB2 for z/OS
• Database Analyzer for DB2 for z/OS
• Fast Unload for DB2 for z/OS
• Fast Check for DB2 for z/OS
• Fast Index for DB2 for z/OS
• Rapid Reorg for DB2 for z/OS

Issue/Introduction

Question: 

The Buffer Pool List displays the value of Read Eff as *******. What does this mean?

Answer: 

READ EFF stands for Read Effectiveness and is the ratio of Getpage requests to Synchronous I/O operations. When Synchronous I/O value is 0 (zero) and getpage value is NON ZERO, since you can't divide by zero, that's when the value of Read Eff is displayed as ********.

Environment

Release:
Component: CIDB