(Ludovic Janssens) The subtitle of this article refers to Alan Reddings blog[1] who calls the mainframe a ‘Dancing Dinosaur’. The sturgeon, who produces caviar, is one of the oldest animals on our planets. As DB2 for z/OS is still regarded as a high quality RDBMS, caviar is wanted by those who can a

(Michael Sansoterra) In part 1 of this series, I discussed the row permissions portion of the new row and column access control (RCAC) security feature that was introduced in DB2 for i 7.2. In this tip, I will demonstrate how to use RCAC to hide sensitive information without hiding entire rows from

(James Buck) By now, you probably realize that an RPG program depends upon several components other than the program itself to do its work and that the tools used with those components use languages other than RPG: database files, whether created with SQL or DDS; printer files created with DDS; perh

(Craig S. Mullins) Automation and autonomics are at the forefront of database and system administration and management these days. And that is a good thing because automation and autonomics can minimize the amount of time, error and human effort involved in assuring and maintaining efficient databas

(Sajan Kuttappa) In just a few weeks from now, thousands of people will converge in Las Vegas for the much talked about IBM Insight 2015 conference at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas.

(James Buck) By now, you probably realize that an RPG program depends upon several components other than the program itself to do its work and that the tools used with those components use languages other than RPG: database files, whether created with SQL or DDS; printer files created with DDS; perh

(Craig S. Mullins) Automation and autonomics are at the forefront of database and system administration and management these days. And that is a good thing because automation and autonomics can minimize the amount of time, error and human effort involved in assuring and maintaining efficient databas

(Sajan Kuttappa) In just a few weeks from now, thousands of people will converge in Las Vegas for the much talked about IBM Insight 2015 conference at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas.

(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something! Matt Huras fills session rooms at IDUG conferences, and today our studio audience size was rather large as well. And, it is no wonder – Matt has a gift for explaining complicated technical things and making them understandable

(Craig S. Mullins) Most DB2 programmers think they know how to correctly code simple SQL SELECT statements. And they usually are correct, as long as you keep that adjective “simple” in the assertion. When the statement requires more than SELECT…FROM…WHERE though, problems can ensue.