The Db2 Portal Blog

The Db2 Portal Blog

News, views, and items of interest on IBM's Db2 database management system and mainframes.

Friday, August 25, 2017

The Db2 12 for z/OS Blog Series - Part 15: DSN1COPY and Data Validation Improvements

If you’ve worked with Db2 for z/OS for awhile (note to IBM: I still have a problem with that lower case "b" but I'm trying), ...

Tuesday, August 01, 2017

The DB2 12 for z/OS Blog Series - Part 14: Improved MERGE SQL Statement

A very common requirement for application developers is to be able to read through new data – from a table, a file or as entered by an end ...

Monday, July 17, 2017

The IBM z14: There's a New Mainframe Coming!

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

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

The DB2 12 for z/OS Blog Series - Part 13: DRDA Fast Load

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...

Thursday, June 29, 2017

The DB2 12 for z/OS Blog Series - Part 12: New Built-in Functions

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'...

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Craig S. Mullins: Sugar Land, Texas, United States; Craig S. Mullins is a data management strategist, researcher, and consultant. He is president and principal consultant of Mullins Consulting, Inc. and the publisher/editor for The Database Site.

Craig has been named by IBM as a Gold Consultant and an IBM Champion for Analytics. He has been named as one of the Top 200 Thought Leaders in Big Data and Analytics by AnalyticsWeek magazine.

Craig has over three decades of experience in all facets of database systems development and has worked with Db2 since V1. You may know Craig from his popular books: Db2 Developer's Guide (covering IBM's mainframe RDBMS)... A Guide to Db2 Performance for Application Developers (how to write efficient Db2 programs) and... Database Administration: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures (a guide to heterogenous DBA).

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