I know the trend is to use NoSQL for a lot of big data storage these days, but it isn’t necessarily the best way to go for every situation. At least not yet. For highly-available high-performance transactional systems we also need a great deal of reliability. DB2 on the mainframe has been...
“As time goes by…..” DB2 for z/OS continues to enhance support for temporal data. Since the availability of the initial temporal support with DB2 10 for z/OS, the functionality has been extended several times. The subject of this article is one of the temporal extensions, the temporal special...
During his involvement with a large compliance project the presenter, as well as designing a reasonable sized enhancement to the largest database in the shop, had to expand his knowledge and dip into the rich set of features available to provide the overall database solution utilised in terms of...
There are several categories of DB2 beginner. You might be a novice programmer, or an experienced programmer who is new to database access. Or, you might have experience with a different DBMS, but not DB2. Others might be new DBAs, either with or without programming experience. How long do...
DATE: 2009-10-8 (09:45 - 10:45) SPEAKERS: Eric Elvio Gabriele (Unicredit group), Marco Venturini (Unicredit group) The presentation will highlight how Unicredit environment we deal with quality and optimization and tuning of applications in the mainframe. EXP. LEVEL: Advanced OBJECTIVES: ...
EU09F16.pdf
DATE: 2009-10-8 (11:00 - 12:00) SPEAKERS: Suresh Sane (DST Systems Inc) In a DB2 production environment, almost all software changes are Typically tightly controlled, but the impact of production binds and rebinds is not. This can result in unpredictable performance since it must be dealt with...
EU09E17.pdf
DATE: 2009-10-8 (11:00 - 12:00) SPEAKERS: George Baklarz (IBM Worldwide DB2 Sales Support) First came DB2 Viper (DB2 9), then DB2 Viper 2 (DB2 9.5). What's in store for the next version of DB2? Can another Asp be around the corner? This session will summarize some of the major enhancements that...
EU09C17.pdf