Performance tuning involves adjustments to the hardware and software configuration in your environment, which assist you to accommodate the different throughput requirements in the organization. The hardware and software adjustments also help to improve the production environment scalability, which is the ability to manage the environment resources in a way that maintains the desired performance when the data volume increases.

This chapter contains recommendations for adjustments to your hardware and software configurations. The recommendations are based on benchmark tests that measure the performance and scalability of B2B Data Exchange and PowerCenter workflows on different databases, operating systems, and software configurations.