Oracle Vs DB2

I've been looking (extensively) for some documentation around Oracle (specifically 9 or higher) vs DB2/UDB (8.1 or higher) when it comes to performance and features around stored procedures. If someone can point me in the right direction (again - specifically around the above - I've found tons of stuff on the actual engine/tuning etc.) I would greatly appreciate it.

It's an application that was developed by an external group - however, they used UDB (which isn't the DB that we currently use/or are well versed in) and, they "attempted" to develop it as portable. However, in doing so - they created huge nested views which are completely disasterous in performance (some of them - when printed out - contain more than 25 pages of SQL).
I know PL/SQL - I know what can be done with it and, I'm fairly well versed in the performance tuning options of Oracle (and our DBA group here for Oracle is second to none)... so - my obvious comfort is to convert the UDB stuff to Oracle (which is of minimal impact as it hasn't been moved into production nor has over 2/3 of it even been tested as a result of the UDB views not functioning). In converting it to Oracle - I can re-develop the functionality the views were attempting in PL/SQL. I can do this quickly and efficiently without having to "guess" how to performance tune.
However - If we are forced (i.e. politics and managment) to continue to use UDB I'm relatively screwed. I don't know much about stored procs in UDB. What I do know is there are things available (i.e. bulk binds/collections/ranged partitioning) in Oracle that aren't available in UDB (all of which would greatly enhance our ability to properly get this stuff going).
Any information is appreciated. Thanks!

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