Database performance issue (8.1.7.0)

Question

Hi,
We are having tablespace "payin" in our database (8.1.7.0) .
This tablespace is the main Tablespace of our database which is dictionary managed and heavily accessed by the user SQL statements.
Now we are facing the database performance issue during the peak time (i.e. at the month end) when no. of users use to run the no. of large reports.
We have also increased the SGA sufficiently on the basis of RAM size.
This tablespace is heavily accessed for the reports.
Now my question is,
Is this performance issue is because the tablespace is "dictionary managed" instead of locally managed ?
because when i monitor the different sessions through OEM, the no. of hard parses is more for the connected users.
Actually the hard parses should be less.
In oracle 8.1.7.0 Can we convert dictionary managed tablespace to locally managed tablespace ?
by doing so will the problem will get somewhat resolve ? will it reduce the overhead on the dictionary tables and on the shared memory ?
If yes then how what is procedure to convert the tablespace from dictionary to locally managed ?
With Regards

Answer 1

If your end users are just running reports against this tablespace, I don't think that the tablespace management (LM/DM) matters here. You should be concerned more about the TEMP tablespace (for heavy sort operations) and your shared pool size (as you have seen hard parses go up).
As already stated, get statspack running and also try tracing user sessions with wait events. Might give you more clues.