This document provides an introduction to SQL tuning for a DB2 for z/OS environment. It was presented on March 1, 2011 by Willie Favero from IBM's Data Warehouse on System z Swat Team. The presentation covers various techniques for optimizing SQL queries and access paths in DB2 for z/OS, with the goal of improving query performance. It addresses topics such as monitoring wait times, buffer pool usage, checkpointing, WLM policies, sort techniques, and disk I/O optimization. The overall aim is to help database administrators understand how to analyze and "tune" queries to reduce response times and meet business performance objectives.