(Ted Holt) In RDi and Refactoring, I illustrated the process of refactoring by taking code of a very old style and converting it little by little into something modern. I promised to write more about the subject, and today I fulfill that promise.

(James Gill) Many customers make use of the RACF Access Control sample exit (DSNXRXAC) to pass security control within DB2 to their security teams. This puts access to DB2 objects and resources under the control of RACF (other security products are available) in a set of classes and profiles.

(David Shirey) While it is probably true that more people across the world today speak English than ever before, it is also true that more people from different countries are talking to more people in other different countries than ever before.

(Carol) When you install DB2 you obviously have an all-powerful instance owner ID and password. The best option, once you’ve got DB2 up and running, is to ensure that no-one, except essential support staff, has access to it.

Calisto Zuzarte gave a great presentation on writing SQL for performance at the IDUG 2018 North America conference.

(Troy L Coleman) I’ve written often about plan management over the years. Most recently I wrote about a study of how customers are setting Db2 zparm.

(Vance Morris, Rohit Adivi, Ratnakar Asara, Matthew Cousens, Nick Gupta, Nicholas Lincoln, Barry Mosakowski and Hong Wei Sun) Blockchain has emerged as a disruptive technology in the areas of trading assets and sharing information. It has the capability to transform many industries, professions, and

(Susan Gantner) If you’re one of those RDi users who doesn’t bother updating to the latest releases, listen up. I’ll bet that at least one of the new features in V9.6 will entice you to update.

(Sreeharsha Naik) DB2 tables are meant to hold enormous amounts of data for application testing, development, and production purposes. But at times, the need arises to design the table to hold just one row at a time dynamically.

(Craig S. Mullins) A significant trend in the database world these days is moving more data management and processing into memory. If you can bypass disk I/O you can achieve tremendous performance gains. There are many reasons for this, but of course, the most important reason is that disk access is