Tridex DB2

If you weren’t with us on November 7th then you missed out on the following: Suzie Wendler – a Consulting I/T Specialist in the IMS Advanced Technical Support group of the IBM Dallas Systems Center – showed us that despite the numerous ways we can access mainframe applications with the web there is only one [...]

DB2 Version 8 is virtually a new product but you haven’t seen anything yet. Les King pulled back the curtain on DB2 Version 9 providing a glimpse into why it will be the most significant new version ever. Why does Less fell this way? Version 9, previously code named “Viper”: readdresses storage optimization, allows you [...]

Thomas Kalb – one of the founders of itgain an international DB2 software and consulting company – posed the question: “Can db2pd replace snapshot monitoring?”. The answer; with the introduction of DB2 V8.2 (Stinger) there are new performance informants. This means the DBAs can extract excellent performance data without consuming incremental DB2 engine resources via [...]