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

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Consider Cross-Compiling COBOL to Java to Reduce Costs

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Most organizations that rely on the mainframe for their mission-critical workload have a considerable amount of COBOL programs. COBOL was ...
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Thursday, June 25, 2020

Db2 12 for z/OS Function Level 507

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This month, June 2020, IBM introduced a new function level, FL507 , for Db2 12 for z/OS. This is the first new function level this year, and...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Optimizing Mainframe Data Access

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Nobody can deny that the amount of data that we store and manage continues to expand at a rapid pace. A recent study by analysts at IDC Co...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

IBM Think 2020: Virtual, On Demand, Hybrid Cloud and Z

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This year’s IBM Think event was quite different than in past years. Usually, Think is an in-person event and attracts a lot of people, typ...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Db2 11 for z/OS End of Service Date Extended!

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In an earlier blog post, I wrote about  Db2 11 for z/OS End of Support Coming This Year (2020) ... but that was before the global COVID-19 p...
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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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