(Willie Favero) One of the very cool parts of working with DB2 for z/OS back in the 80s was hanging all of the DB2 posters on the walls of ones office. Actually, having an office with walls to hang stuff on was also pretty cool.. but I digress.

(Samir Nasser) Unit testing, system functional testing, performance testing, and the like have traditionally been the only kind of testing that is performed in some form or fashion when implementing a new or updated system. Unfortunately, often overlooked is resiliency testing.

(Kelly Schlamb) Today, I’m thinking about the beach. We’re heading into the last long weekend of the summer, the weather is supposed to be nice, and later today I’ll be going up to the lake with my family. But that’s not really why the beach is on my mind.

(Robert Catterall) I recently received an interesting message from a mainframe DB2 person I’ve known for a long time. At his DB2 10 for z/OS site, 1 MB page frames had recently been made available on the System z servers, and my friend moved to leverage this resource via page-fixed DB2 buffer pools.

(Supal Chowdhury and Rohit Sahai) This article explains how you can integrate video data streaming with a mobile application. In doing so, it also highlights some of the business problems addressed and opportunities available by using several cutting-edge technologies: IBM InfoSphere BigInsights on

(Sushil Shirodkar) One of our Virtual-DBA clients called to report an issue with one of their daily processes. Although it had been running fine for a couple of months, it suddenly started to fail with a core dump file. I was asked to check for any database abnormalities.

(Shruthi Rao and Juilee Joshi) Starting with IBM DB2 10.1, the High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) feature supports multiple standbys. With multiple standbys, you can have your data in more than two sites for improved data protection with a single technology. This article provides detailed st

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How to Identify or Monitor DB2 Client Release Version from DB2 Server Solution:

(Dave Beulke) When I talk to millennials coming into management and programming it appears that their knowledge of the mainframe is very limited or non-existent. Since many universities have stopped teaching mainframe classes, the recent college graduates don’t even have a basic understanding of th

(Susan Visser) Yesterday I published the blog entry NOW is a good time to upgrade to DB2 10.5! and I had a comment asking me how people can quickly upgrade their skills. The person asking was focused on those who have Oracle skills and now want to work on DB2, but new skills need to be taught to th