(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something! Mohan took us into the bowels of Db2 pureScale locking and logging, complete with sample SQL, monitoring commands, configuration considerations, important stuff you need to know for Db2 V11.1 Certification Testing, and much more!

(Paul_McWilliams) We’re proud to announce that function level 502 (V12R1M502) is now available in Db2 12!

(Carol) Data sits at the heart of all organisations and without it everyday functions simply cannot be performed. Reliance on data availability is growing. It is vital to ensure that your organisations’ Database Availability and Recovery procedures are robust and able to meet business SLAs.

(Kim May) IBM’s strategy is difficult to understand at first, but often makes eventual sense. There’s been a great deal of discussion recently about the future of Db2. Db2 on the mainframe has an established customer base consisting of some of the planet’s largest and busiest organizations.

(Tony Andrews) Sparse indexing has been around for a number of versions. The history of these on the z/Os side goes back to originally helping with non-correlated subqueries in V4, then star joins in V7, to hashing support of these indexes in V10.

For many large organisations the Mainframe is the workhorse powering business critical IT systems and services. Managing that beast is an immense task and one that can seemingly take ever more time and budget.

(Katharina Probst, Dishant J Doriwala, Jes Kiran, Ravi A Shankar, Marc-Stephan Tauchert and Srikanth Thanneeru) This IBM Redpaper chapter publication explains the configuration, relocation, and verification of the IBM Geographically Dispersed Resiliency on IBM Power Systems solution to protect SAP H

(Alex Woodie) IBM is receiving high marks for a new feature called PDM Perspective that it just launched in Rational Developer for i version 9.6.0.2. The new feature gives users the capability to filter libraries or members in RDi that’s very similar to the way PDM functioned in SEU.

Dive into an IBM Code pattern with Developer Advocates Sai Vennam and Rizchel Dayao. In this episode, they introduce you to IBM Code patterns and then show you how using a code pattern and the skills and experience you already possess, you can easily create and deploy Java 8-based microservices usin

(Jim Pickel, Gayathiri Chandran and Emily Alameida) Starting in both Db2 11 and 12 for z/OS, we recently introduced support for z/OS DFSMS data set encryption, part of the Pervasive Encryption for IBM Z solution, to address the problem of access to data by unauthorized internal personnel.