It is vitally important to ensure that your Db2 databases and systems are running effectively and efficiently. And this requires the diligen...

Db2 utilities are the unappreciated, and often over-looked, workhorses of your mainframe Db2 environment. They perform the dirty work that...

No, the mainframe is not dead… far from it. And BMC Software continues to be there with innovative tools to help you manage, optimize, an...

Db2 12 for z/OS introduces a new privilege that, when granted, enables a user to be able to unload data using the DB2 IBM UNLOAD utility. In...

Have you ever had a situation where you needed to load data into a DB2 table, but the file with the data was not on the mainframe? So you h...

If you are a DBA who has been using DB2 for z/OS for a while you should have noticed that we are not doing things the same way we used to. ...

There have been some nice data validation improvements made to the IBM DSN1COPY utility in DB2 11 for z/OS. I suppose I should first explain...

In our last blog post here, we covered DB2 system performance management tools - that is, tools that look at the performance at a  system ...

As a user of DB2, which I'm guessing you are since you are reading this blog, you should always be on the lookout for useful tools that...

DB2 11 for z/OS Generally Available Today, October 25, 2013 As was announced earlier this month (see press release ) Version 11 of DB2 ...

In this third entry of our  series on the DISPLAY command, we take a look at using the DISPLAY command to monitor DB2 utility execution and ...