Let's go back in time... over three decades ago... back to the wild and woolly 1980s! And watch our favorite DBMS, DB2, grow up over t...

If you're anything like me, you're constantly looking for DB2 Catalog table and column names. For writing catalog queries, for exami...

Today’s blog entry is a continuation of yesterday’s post in which we began a brief review of the history of DB2 for z/OS. That post covered ...

Just a quick note to question the entire DB2 community about embracing the latest (I hesitate to call a 2 year old product "new") ...

I'm just now getting around to downloading the recently refreshed IBM DB2 9 for z/OS manuals . IBM updated almost all of the DB2 manuals...

Just a quick entry today to remind everyone that IDUG has started conducting regional events. The first one was held last week in San Ramon,...

There is something of a perfect storm brewing in the world of data today. The world is becoming more automated, more connected, more wireles...

If you are a stored procedure developer, or a DBA who manages a system with stored procedures - - and you are running DB2 9 for z/OS - - the...

Are you making plans to migrate to a new version of DB2? Do you know what impact the access changes for dynamic SQL will have on performance...

With today’s posting we return to our examination of the new features of DB2 9 for z/OS. With V9, DB2 storage groups can be better integrate...

Our examination of the new utility functionality in DB2 9 for z/OS continues today as we uncover what’s new with the IBM RECOVER utility. Po...

Today we continue our investigation into the new functionality in DB2 9 for z/OS... and specifically into the improvements made to IBM utili...

Next up in this sub-series on IBM utility improvements in the larger series on DB2 V9 features and functions we will take a look at the new ...

Another IBM DB2 utility that has received some attention under Version 9 is MODIFY RECOVERY. For those not sure what this utility is, MODIFY...