(Walid Rjaibi) In the previous blog entry we stated that the overall responsibility for security is shared between the cloud service provider and the client. Then, we covered the responsibilities of the cloud service provider. This new blog entry discusses the responsibilities of the client.

(Sudhee Subrahmanya) The infamous bank robber Willie Sutton is often quoted as saying that criminals go after banks because “that is where the money is.” Whatever the source, the intended meaning is of course that thieves try to steal wherever things of value are located.

(Willie Favero) Let’s see… simple table spaces are gone… you can’t use them anymore, no matter what you do…. in fact, if you still have them hanging around when you get to DB2 11 (even DB2 10 when you think about it), you had better have a good recovery strategy in place.

(Robert Catterall) I well remember a phone conversation, from about six or seven years ago, during which a friend of mine and I discussed an application project at his site which involved use of DB2 for z/OS stored procedures. Me: “In what language will the stored procedure programs be written?”

(Robert Friske) Organizations as disparate as banking, healthcare, and law enforcement all share a common focus—analyzing information rapidly to provide enhanced delivery of services. For example, a bank needs split-second detection of fraudulent transactions so it can halt fraudsters before they do

(Alex Woodie) Server workloads are typically broken down into two broad categories: transactional or analytical. For most IBM i shops, the focus is heavily on the transactional side of the equation. But as IBM i shops peek over the wall into the rapidly expanding world of big data analytics, they wi

CDB Software, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance solutions for DB2 z/OS data management, has announced the GA release of CDB/Auto-Tune, the latest addition to its Real Time Data Management Solutions.

(Daniel Luksetich) There are two major challenges when it comes to SQL tuning. The first and most important is the quantity of SQL statements issued, and the second is the relative performance of each SQL statement. Ever hear the saying that the most efficient SQL statement is the one that is never

(Dan Burger) Steve Kilner has been down nine miles of ugly road and he’s seen enough. If you’ve ever looked at 20-year-old, monolithic RPG code with the thought in mind that this code can serve another five or 10 years, it’s likely you’ve seen enough, too.

(Patric Becker and Frank Neumann) With the introduction of IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator, IBM enhanced DB2 for z/OS capabilities to efficiently process long-running, analytical queries. Consequentially, the need arose to integrate the accelerator into existing High Availability (HA) architectures an