(Robert Catterall) The DB2 for z/OS Distributed Data Facility (DDF), the component of DB2 that provides data services for network-attached client applications, is not a new kid on the block — it’s been around for more than two decades.

(Kyle Brown, Rajeev Gandhi and Venkata (Vishy) Gadepalli) Adopting IBM PureApplication System will require changes to your IT organization, simply because many of the challenges that IT organizations typically spend a great deal of effort addressing either do not exist when you are using an Expert I

(Susan Visser) Simplicity is one of the big ideas behind the last version of DB2. BLU Acceleration is fully integrated with DB2. It does not require SQL or schema changes to implement. Just load and go. Enhancements such as automation, optimization and self-tuning help to further simplify overall us

(Henrik Loeser) Today I continue my journey into the metadata of DB2 with BLU Acceleration which I recently started. I had created a table and looked at the catalog and found a synopsis table.

(Craig S. Mullins) If you have been reading my blogs lately you know that I have been posting Top Ten lists of various types, and today’s post offers up yet another one. This time, the list provides guidance for DB2 developers to keep in mind as they build DB2 applications…

(Daniel Luksetich) SQL is much more than a data access language. It is a full-fledged programming language. This means that any business or scientific question can be answered using SQL. There are no longer limits to the capabilities of the SQL language. By utilizing some built-in advanced SQL const

(Yiying Zhang, Fran Beaulne, Mei-hsiang Chang and Aslam Nomani) The IBM DB2 pureScale Feature is designed for continuous availability and tolerance of both planned maintenance and unplanned accidental component failure. DB2 pureScale is a separately priced feature for both IBM DB2 Enterprise Server

(Henrik Loeser) IOQWT is a typical acronym, used to deal with lengthy product names like IBM InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. It is part of the InfoSphere Optim suite of tools for data lifecycle management.

(Paolo Bruni, Zhen Hua Dong, Josef Klitsch, Maggie Lin, Rajesh Ramachandran, Bart Steegmans and Andreas Thiele) IBM DB2 for z/OS is a high-performance database management system (DBMS) with a strong reputation in traditional high-volume transaction workloads that are based on relational technology.

(Brian S Paskin) No matter the purpose or scale of an application, performance is always a critical factor. Looping and recursion are comparable but different methods for computational coding.