Accelerating Your Db2 Database
Your Db2 database The IBM mainframe and its Db2 database is the transaction processing workhorse for the world’s biggest banks,…
Zero Trust Architecture Mobilizes Organizations to Safeguard Mainframe
Tried and true, the mainframe is here to stay as the backbone of our digital economy. Even as we advance…
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough…
Bridging Two Worlds: Mainframes and Clients
In Application Architecture: an Evolutionary View I wrote of the way that computers have evolved from the mainframe era of…
Avoid IT overconsumption and reduce your CO2 footprint
The footprint of IT has reached the same levels today as the global CO2 emissions of global air traffic. Furthermore,…
DevOps Places Software Testing as a Challenge
The speed of digital transformation is already impressive and will only increase. To put this in very concrete terms, consider…
Don’t Tell the CFO!
The general view that mainframers have of senior financial staff in an organization is that they are people who want…
Db2 for z/OS EXPLAIN: What an Access Path Is, and What it Would Be
The EXPLAIN functionality of Db2 for z/OS, by which the query optimizer’s access path determinations are externalized, has been around…