Case Study: Valitor (international payment solutions company) achieves up to 40% faster application runtimes and dramatic DB2 reorg CPU/time reductions with BMC Software’s NGT Reorg and NGT Utility Manager

Leading international payment solutions company Valitor reduces DB2 reorg application runtimes and database storage requirements

Valitor, an international payment solutions company that partners with Visa and Mastercard and serves European merchants, banks, and cardholders, faced nearly 30% annual growth that drove rapid increases in mainframe transaction volumes and IBM DB2 table sizes. Maintaining database performance, 24/7 availability, and SLA commitments became increasingly difficult, so the infrastructure team needed to streamline and automate database management and reorg processes.

By deploying BMC NGT Utility Manager to identify only the tables that needed reorganization and BMC NGT Reorg for DB2 to quickly reorganize even the largest tables, Valitor cut unnecessary reorgs, eliminated outages during reorgs, and improved performance. The solution produced 35–40% faster application runtimes, an 84% drop in CPU usage for reorgs, a 92% reduction in reorg elapsed time, reduced storage requirements, and the capacity to support continued transaction growth.

Valitor

Sigurður Svavarsson

Head of IT Infrastructure