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As a Db2 DBA, you're constantly looking for ways to improve performance and efficiency while minimizing costs. One technology that can help achieve...

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The Db2 for z/OS development team has delivered several features to make Db2 installation and migration simpler, with the possibility to be...

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This new feature enables applications to take more control over Db2 locking. If you have applications that could benefit from different lock...

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Written by Muhammed Hisham P and Aruna De Silva As enterprises increasingly adopt containerized environments for mission-critical workloads,...

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This article is a re-post from IBM Db2 Z community website. It seems important so we are re-sharing at IDUG! In 2016 IBM released Db2 12 for z/OS...

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Written by Aslam Nomani, Kostas Rakopoulos, and Bryan Tang The IBM Power Private Cloud Rack (PCR) for Db2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)...

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Db2 provides a method to change the way a pgm or SQL statement acquires locks? That way is known as the isolation level and it can be set to specify...

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I was talking to some DBAs who were trying to remember if they had ever created any business-time temporal tables. A comment was made that we could...

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by C Raghavendra and Toby Haynes Performance tuning in Db2 LUW can be challenging, especially when database performance degrades without an obvious...

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In our previous blog posts (1, 2, 3, 4), we introduced the Db2 AI Query Optimizer, a revolutionary approach to database query optimization using...

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High-performance infrastructure is only as effective as its ability to recover from failure. In today’s analytics-driven environments—where data...

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By Greg Stager and Cyrus Ng Db2 V12 is raising the bar on security, delivering advanced new features, security focused default behaviour changes and...

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