Last time, we looked at Application Support features for Db2v13. Today, let’s have a look at Availability, Resiliency, and Scalability and Performance. It is also common for each new version of Db2 to deliver functionality that improves availability, resiliency, and...
Last time we looked at Db2v13 improvements in the areas of Availability, Resiliency, and Scalability and Performance. This time we look at how Db2v13 improves on Security and Simplification and Serviceability. Improving the security and protection of data is one of...
Last time, we looked at how Db2v13 improves on Security and Simplification and Serviceability. Today, we wrap up our survey of Db2v13 with a quick look at IBM Utilities. There is a long list of new and improved capabilities in the IBM Db2 utilities that can improve...
IT Infrastructure Transparency & the Modern Enterprise Today’s modern data centers are composed of many different systems. They work both independently and in conjunction with one another to deliver business services— an ecosystem of hardware, software, network...
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the ability to access and process data as quickly as possible is of utmost importance for businesses striving to gain a competitive edge. As such, a significant trend in the database world is utilizing memory for more types of...
Once upon a time, a website existed that recorded some of the most spectacularly failed mainframe migration projects. Of interest to all mainframe type people, I’m sure that it saw a lot of traffic; a Google search on ReBoot Hill yields the website, but it no longer...
Some fun started with an interesting article from Chris O'Malley on LinkedIn a few months back about chronic mainframe migration strategy. It got some interest several months ago, and it generated some discussion at Planet Mainframe as well, with some people making up...
Healthcare IT organizations face enormous challenges: Providers such as hospitals, HMOs, and PPOs must deal with spiraling costs, increasingly strict regulatory requirements, rising patient expectations, constrained reimbursements, and more. Payers such as healthcare...
The Open Mainframe Project was established to create an open source, technical community that industry and community participants may easily participate in and so that they may contribute to the creation of assets and materials that will benefit the ecosystem around...
I was reading the news on CNN recently about a power outage in California, which reminded me of some serious black outs in Costa Rica a while back. A friend was there on business, and it ruined an important business meeting that he had spent months setting up. It also...
