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Db2Z and Redirected Recovery - user experience – Part 3 – Automatic Schema Comparison
Posted In: Technical Content,
Date posted Apr 21

Db2 Z V12 introduced interesting new functionality to the “RECOVERY” utility. This new functionality is called ‘redirected recovery’ and it has...

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Db2Z and Redirected Recovery - user experience – Part 2 – Details and Cavaets
Posted In: Technical Content,
Date posted Apr 19

Db2 Z V12 introduced interesting new functionality to the “RECOVERY” utility. This new functionality is called ‘redirected recovery’ and it has...

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Db2Z and Redirected Recovery - user experience – Part 1 – What it is and WHY and How
Posted In: Technical Content,
Date posted Apr 18

Db2 Z V12 introduced interesting new functionality to the “RECOVERY” utility. This new functionality is called ‘redirected recovery’ and it has...

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Db2 Columnar Database Next Generation Insertion - Improvements on Trickle Insertion and Data Loading
Posted In: Technical Content,
Date posted Apr 4

Next Generation INsertion (NGIN) was designed to enhance insertion performance and reduce log space usage. The NGIN enhancements mainly covered...

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A Series of Short Blog Posts on Db2 LUW Performance – Part 1
Posted In: Technical Content,
Date posted Mar 31

A collection of various articles written by Raghavendra Chiyodu

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Db2 Columnar Database Page-Based String Compression
Posted In: Technical Content,
Date posted Mar 28

For many customers, string data dominates storage cost. Frequency-based compression is not effective for high cardinality datasets. So percentage...

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Columnar Data Engine (CDE) Storage New Feature
Posted In: Technical Content,
Date posted Mar 21

Since Db2 11.5.4 which itself laid a new foundation for how columnar inserts were handled by the columnar data engine (CDE), many new features for...

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Logical Schema Backup and Restore for Columnar Tables
Posted In: Technical Content,
Date posted Mar 14

Newly introduced in Db2 11.5.8, Logical Schema Backup and Restore utilities for columnar tables specialize in flexibility, usability, and fine grain...

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5 Misconceptions About Cloud Data Warehouses
Posted In: Technical Content,
Date posted Mar 6

Based on our experience speaking with CTOs and IT leaders in large enterprises, we have identified the most common misconceptions about cloud data...

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Explore the third generation of IBM Db2 Warehouse — fully managed on AWS
Posted In: Technical Content,
Date posted Feb 28

Modern enterprise is global, and data comes in new unstructured and semi-structured formats that can augment machine-learning-based insights. Given...

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Consistency of zParms in Db2 Data Sharing Groups
Posted In: Technical Content,
Date posted Jan 16

If you plan to prepare for Db2 13 migration and you are about to activate the very last function level of Db2 12 - V12R1M510, you need to make sure...

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DSNACICS. Why use DSNACICS? calling DSNACICS through REST API – A user experience
Posted In: Technical Content,
Date posted Jan 6

DSNACICS is a useful IBM supplied procedure for Db2. What does DSNACICS do? It allows one to invoke a CICS server program.

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