Today,  July 17, 2017,  IBM announced the next iteration of its stalwart mainframe hardware, the IBM z14. The news comes a little more than...

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...

As with most new releases of DB2 for z/OS, at least lately, there are several new built-in functions (or BIFs) that have been added. DB2...

Have you heard the one about BMC Software acquiring CA, Inc.?  At first glance, to those of us who have been in the business for awhile, t...

The ARRAY data type was added to DB2 in the last release (Version 11) with the ability to define both ordinary arrays  or associative arrays...