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From George Baklarz and Phil Downey | Many customers are looking at modernizing their databases by moving them into a containerized environment such...

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Containerization takes Db2 to the world of Cloud Paks, Red Hat OpenShift, Public Cloud Kubernetes platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and IBM...

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Recently, I have been visiting a technical university with a short speech at a seminar and my topic was IBM mainframes. Fortunately, this was after...

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From the IBM Data Management Console Development Group Jun Liu , Guo Bin Zhao, Yinmei Chen | Db2 maintains a set of catalog tables that describes...

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Whether they want to view all objects, check the status of an object, locate statistics, browse the data, generate DDL, or any other action that...

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If you are experienced with database management systems outside of mainframe, you've probably heard about an information schema. This is a set of...

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zHyperWrite and zHyperLink certainly sound very similar. However, when it comes to Db2 Log Manager, they are really two different sets of...

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Most likely, you understand how logging in Db2 for z/OS works in general. There are log buffers, active logs, which get offloaded to archive logs,...

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The access paths formulated by the Db2 optimizer during the BIND process or access paths formulated at runtime for dynamic queries are critical to...

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Why does policy 123 in the POLICY table have status code X. I could have sworn the status code should be Y. How could this be? Who did it? When? ...

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The EXPLAIN functionality of Db2 for z/OS, by which the query optimizer's access path determinations are externalized, has been around as long as I...

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Whether they are beginners or experienced DBA, they have more or less doubts about the behavior of Db2, especially in terms of the execution...

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