(Troy L Coleman) As you move to new function levels in Db2 for z/OS Version 12, you’ll need to upgrade your remote Db2 data server clients and drivers. IBM’s Db2 12 Knowledge Center provides instructions.

(Guillermo Cosimo and Lutz Kuehner) The ABCs of IBM z/OS System Programming is a 13-volume collection that provides an introduction to the z/OS operating system and the hardware architecture.

(Ted Holt) Since many, if not most, IBM i shops store dates and times in numeric and character fields, it behooves those of us who program those systems to understand all available date- and time-conversion tools.

(Bob Seemann) You are probably wondering, “Where’s chapter 1?” It wasn’t actually called chapter 1 at the time. It was written a couple of years ago and was called “IBM i Access Client Solutions: Customization and deployment made easy”.

(Craig S. Mullins) A primary goal of most organizations is to minimize downtime and improve the availability of their IT systems and applications. According to a recent study on achieving 2018 database goals by Unisphere Research, “Enterprises seek to base most, if not all, decision making on insigh

Hemant Suri, senior offering manager for the Hybrid Data Warehouse, explains the IBM Integrated Analytics System, a cloud-ready data warehouse that provides easy-to-manage high performance analytics, integrates the IBM Data Science Experience so you can collaboratively analyze data, and helps you to

You need to input and output data at rapid and ever-increasing speeds. How do you keep up? Where should you store your data and how can you optimize it? In this week’s episode of Making Data Simple, Al Martin and Adam Storm, IBM senior technical staff member and master inventor, next-generation HTAP

(Joe Pluta) In my last article, I presented a lot of the visual enhancements of RDi 9.6, many of which centered on the use of the hover concept; hover over a component of your source code and you’ll see information specific to that component.

(Terry Purcell and Paul McWilliams) In Db2 12 we built on the profile-based statistics collection that we introduced in Db2 10 and the externalization of missing statistics that the optimizer identifies that we introduced in Db2 11. In Db2 12, we enabled the optimizer to automatically update the sta

(Howard Goldberg) One of the most common maintenance activities performed on a Db2 LUW database is running Runstats on tables and indexes. Accurate database statistics are vital for the Db2 Optimizer to produce the most optimal plans.