text: *Figure 13-1 Data loading*
  
  During the load process, in addition to any command-line parameters that are supplied, the 
  application group and application parameters are retrieved from the library server. Then, 
  based on the parameter definitions, the load process completes the following steps: 
  
  1. Selects the indexer to be used for indexing the report data and retrieves the indexing 
  parameters. 
  
  2. Reads in the report data from the identified source location. The input report data can be 
  of any data type. 
  
  3.  Indexes the report data based on the defined indexing parameters. 
  
  4. Segments the report into “documents”. 
  
  5. Compresses the documents. 
  
  6. Stores the compressed documents in storage objects (10 MB by default). 
  
  7. Sends the storage objects to the object server where they are stored in the identified 
  archive (storage node). 
  
  8. Sends the index data for the stored objects to the library server where the indexes are 
  stored in the appropriate application group data table. 
  
  **13.2.1 Factors that affect the load performance**
  
  Many factors affect load performance: 
  
  (cid:2) Quantity, speed, and capacity of the available hardware (processors, memory, disks, I/O 
  channels, network, and so on) 
  
  (cid:2) Network bandwidth and throughput 
  
  (cid:2) Operating system tuning components: DB2, TCP/IP, and Language Environment 