(Keith Winnard, Bertus Bekker, Rafael Carvalho A. Lima, Nilkanth Patwardhan, Zheng Zhao and Hui Zhou) This IBM Redbooks publication helps you install, customize, and configure an IBM z13 and build z/OS environments.

(Frank C. Fillmore, Jr.) Fifty percent or more of a large enterprise’s data – especially the lifeblood online transaction processing (OLTP) data –

(Lockwood Lyon) A big data application is a seeming treasure trove of information. How do you access it? Commonly, vendors supply software packages specifically designed to automate the construction and execution of queries against big data.

(Jack Vamvas) I’ve started getting into Avamar as a backup and restore system for DB2. I’m learning all sorts of avtar client command options. I’ve decided to set up this page as a quick reference.

(Vinay Kumar Bommana) HADR Step by Step Process in DB2 Instances DB2 and DB2INST1 DBNAME :

(Whei-Jen Chen, Sherry A Ajax, Ali Arsanjani, Vaclav Bahnik, Priscilla Lok, Monique Ruggiero, Parameswaran Venkatraman and Roger Welch) The integration of IBM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products with the Box for secure file sharing and collaboration opens new possibilities for achieving hig

(Craig S. Mullins) Welcome to our on-going series of misunderstood issues in the world of DB2 for z/OS. Today’s topic is indexing, or to be more precise: not indexing. What do I mean by that?

(Lockwood Lyon) Since data in a single dimension (say, the current month) will very often all be accessed in a single query, the DBA can increase performance by storing the data physically adjacent.

(Mohankumar Saraswatipura) Both BLU and pureScale require databases to be Unicode, so you should create all new databases as Unicode. Chances are good that the requirement to convert data to a Unicode code set will happen.

(Troy L Coleman) At times a transaction executing on DB2 for z/OS could cause resource problems with other transactions. It could be driving up CPU usage, holding locks and blocking critical transactions, or causing a number of other issues.