When I hear the word "flush", I always have to think about the movie "The Man Who Knew Too Little" and the scene where Wallace/Spenser is told "Remember to flush".
In DB2 there are statements to flush the event monitors, to flush the package cache, and to flush the optimization profile cache. Well, with DB2 pureScale, the feature for application cluster transparency, you have one more option. It is for another cache, a big data cache. The new statement is FLUSH BUFFERPOOLS. It writes out all dirty pages from the buffer pools to disk. The less dirty data is buffered, the shorter the recovery time in the event of failures. Depending on your strategy and configuration for the page cleaners, this is a new statement to remember. Remember to flush...