(Willie Favero) I know you’re going to find this so hard to believe (you should be imagining sarcasm in my voice right now!!!) but I found yet another subsystem parameter topic to discuss. My trio of post are not even a day old and already there’s more… And today’s post also fits perfectly into the

(Somak Bhattacharya, Srinivasa Parkala and Puneet Sharma) This article discusses the basic structure of the JobFramework and its application to the definition of a custom KPI, using the Latency KPI as an example. The Latency KPI calculates the time that is required to propagate data changes from the

(Craig S. Mullins) Today’s entry in our series on the DB2 DISPLAY command is the fifth – and final – edition of the series. We’ll wrap up coverage by briefly discussing the remaining features of DISPLAY. And, just as a reminder:

(Robert Catterall) Securing data is more important now than ever before. There are, of course, the always more-stringent government regulations pertaining to the protection of various categories of data—two examples are credit card and healthcare records. In addition, there is the public-trust facto

(Jayanta Ranjan Das) Part of the IBM Smarter Planet initiative, Curam Social Enterprise Management software provides enterprise solutions for workforce services and social security. This article shows you how to integrate Curam with external insurance company and government agency systems using WebS

(Thomas Stockwell) Business analysts tell us that business strategy is about discovering how a business can perform better than its competition. They usually point to five interlocking elements: business direction, market scope, resource management, business environment, and potential business advan

(Joern Klauke and Martin Jungfer) The DB2 Advanced Copy Services supports taking snapshots for backup purposes in DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows databases. Customers can use the DB2 ACS API either through libraries implemented by their storage hardware vendors or implement this API on their own. Ad

(Willie Favero) As promised (finally), the final installment of my managing subsystem parameters (AKA DSNZPARM) post I started publishing a couple of days ago. In this last installment I wanted to discuss another no-charge program shipped via SDSNSAMP. It’s DSN8ED7.

(Henrik Loeser) Last year in a blog article I had written about some fun I had with different locales and the dayname function in DB2. Last week I showed you links to customize the application environment. Why not combine the two for some added fun? Let me show you how to connect the dots. I am goin

(Robert Catterall) Here’s something I imagine a lot of you (or programs written by you) do all the time: issue DB2 for z/OS-accessing SQL statements that contain character string literal values. Below is a query that I issued from Data Studio earlier today, targeting a table that I’d created on one