Isbank initiated a DB2 for z/OS project in 2007 with two System z9 EC machines running z/OS 1.7 and DB2 V8. They installed DB2 V8 with Turkish codepage support, enabled one-way and two-way data sharing, attended training, and explored DB2 functionality. They developed a test environment with 5 data sharing groups and 4 members each and a production environment with 1 data sharing group and 4 members. They implemented a new core banking Java application using DB2 and explored performance monitoring and tuning techniques.