The distributed data facility (aka DDF) is the component of Db2 for z/OS that enables data access by applications that connect to Db2 via TCP/IP communication links. DDF has been around for over 30 years, but especially during the past 10 years or so D…
Modernizing IMS applications sometimes means rewriting entire COBOL or PL/I programs in Java™. But another popular approach is to use Java when adding or modifying subroutines in existing PL/I applications. We can do this because IMS supports PL/I to...
IBM Z mainframes are the core computing platforms of 92 of the world’s top 100 banks, 10 of the top 10 insurers, 18 of the top 25 retailers, 70% of the Fortune 500 and much of the world’s healthcare, finance, utilities, and governments. These ultimate data servers...
Planet Mainframe, one of the largest IBM mainframe community presences on the Internet has merged with the popular PlanetDb2 blog—one of the longest-running blogs focused specifically on IBM’s Db2 database. In joining forces, Planet Mainframe will officially become...
Last month, I posted to this blog an entry on the long-awaited capability to migrate tables, in an online way, from a multi-table segmented or simple table space to multiple single-table partition-by-growth table spaces (a capability delivered with fun…
IMS™ has been around for over half a century and some of the top fortune 100 companies continue to use IMS including many of the top banks worldwide. There is a distinct reason why this continues to be a basic fact: TRUST. Trust in IMS databases. Trust in IMS...
Presented by: Michael Roecken IBM Toronto Lab
“The DB2Night Show #246: Db2 Advanced Log Space Management – Unleashed” Replays available in WMV and M4V formats!
100% of our studio audience learned something!Michael gave an important …
Quantum Safe Cryptography The Problem – Current Cryptography is Vulnerable to Quantum Computing Cryptography experts believe that by 2030 quantum computers will be advanced enough to cut the strength of symmetric key algorithms (such as AES, 3DES and RC4) by half, and...
Yesterday I posted a brief piece about the new version of Db2 for z/OS that is now generally available: Db2 13 for z/OS is Here! It is always an exciting time when a new version of Db2 for z/OS is unleashed on the world and one of the first things I re…
Introduction Back in March, I was proud to highlight the IBM announcement of a new IBM offering IBM Z JCL Expert in this blog, where I highlighted the client challenges that this new offering aims to mitigate, what’s changing, why should you...
