Today’s modern applications are not restricted to a single platform. Yet, in many ways, mainframe management and administration professionals are still tackling performance issues and problem resolution using the same methods they did when mainframe applications were all COBOL and never strayed off of the centralized mainframe computing platform. And this causes many problems.The IT infrastructure of most organizations is multi-tiered, and business transactions flow through multiple systems and services to deliver business value. This means that...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Friday, 12 October 2012
Just a short blog post today to let everybody know that I will be doing a book signing for the new edition of both of my books at the 2012 Information on Demand conference on Tuesday, October 23rd.You can choose to have me sign the new 6th edition of my DB2 book, DB2 Developer's Guide... or the new 2nd edition of my DBA book, Database Administration: The Complete Guide to DBA Practices and Procedures.Or you can be my favorite type of person and choose...
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Today, October 3, 2012, IBM announced the Early Support Program for the next version of DB2. Heretofore code-named Sequoia, the DB2 11 ESP is planned for March 8, 2013 availability. So if you are still lagging behind running DB2 9 (or, heaven forbid, DB2 V8) now is the time to get yourself to DB2 10 so you'll be ready for the imminent onslaught of DB2 11 for z/OS.The announcement (212-364) offers up a bit of information on some of the features that are planned to be available in DB2 11, including:Performance improvements for some types...
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