IBM just announced a new release of IBM Z JCL Expert, it is the version 1.2, see related announcement here. With this new release the product is enriched in order to better fit your environment with new checks available, new out-of-the-box integration and a new...
While databases may not be the sexiest segment of IT history, they are inarguably the backbone of modern information systems. With that in mind, we’re devoting our trivia challenge this week to the enduring data management technology that is Db2. This massively...
The Virtual Db2 user group launches in January with a presentation on the 17th from Craig S Mullins, President & Principal Consultant at Mullins Consulting Inc. And being a virtual meeting, you don’t have to face the hard task of convincing your company to fund...
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...
It’s a pleasure to work with something new. It’s even better when customers are begging for faster delivery. That’s just the case with the new OMEGAMON Data Provider (ODP).First introduced and available in November ’21, with an ability to stream OMEGAMON data for the...
Batch programming is a very powerful process which helps process Millions of record from a input data source. An Input data source can be a VSAM dataset, SMS files or Database Such as DB2 or IMS. In these Blog we will be studying the Batch Application to update...
It’s an ill wind that blows no good, and profits nobody. That old nautical phrase popped into my head when I first heard about the SolarWinds supply chain compromise. We’ll return to that later, and its implications. But first I wanted to take a look at a few of the...
The Mainframe Era In 1970 I joined a company, Databank Systems Ltd, that operated a national network of 6 computer centres, each containing a S360/40. In total this was less than 1/10,000th of the power of my current laptop, at a cost several thousand times...
Last week we ended with Db2 Performance of zHyperLink Read. Now let’s look at the CPU cost of zHyperLink read. As explained last week, I/O operation is now synchronous to CPU with zHyperLink and SQL processing spins while waiting for the I/O to complete. At the same...
As the size of database and the volume of transactions increase, many of Db2 transactions tend to spend significant amount of wait time in database read and log write I/Os. zHyperLink is introduced to help reduce b2 transaction latency. zHyperLink is a new short...
