The following options are available for enhancing the backup performance and reducing the network bandwidth used for performing the backups.
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The number of streams
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The buffer size
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The buffer number
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Parallelism
The configured values have a direct impact on the DB2 performance. The DB2 client computer must also be considered when you assign values to these parameters.
When you set the values to a higher number, the operations use more of the client computer memory. The performance is reduced on computers that cannot handle higher memory usage.