Category Archives: Information Management

Join the Z series discussion

As BT famously pronounced “It’s good to talk” – and we’ve been doing a lot of that recently!  In particular we’ve been focussing our “chatty” attention to LinkedIn.  Because we enjoy talking we thought that it is quite likely that … Continue reading

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The information agenda

With IOD EMEA coming up up in June, IBM are producing a lot of collateral on the subject of the Information Agenda.  In this video Ambuj Goyal discusses how the Information Agenda accelerates your ability to share and deliver trusted … Continue reading

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The internal data threat

Those of you who subscribe to our newsletter will know that we have been looking at how organisations need to be aware and take control of the internal threat to their data. In his latest blog post Steve Katz talks about … Continue reading

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Is system z the right place for a data warehouse and BI solution?

Get the insights from IBM experts, together with Julian Stuhler, Triton Director and President of The International DB2 Users Group (IDUG).

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“Good information management is key to profitability”

Improving information management | silicon.com videos In this video from Silicon.com, Jonathan Steer, CEO of technology researchers The Bathwick Group discusses their findings from silicon.com’s management benchmark survey. A massive 2/3 of respondents felt that their current information systems were … Continue reading

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How many DB2 for z/OS Stored Procedure Applications?

As always, the answer to this is “it depends”! However, here are some basic rules of thumb that you may find useful: • Define an application environment specifically for your Java stored procedures. This should have NUMTCB set to a … Continue reading

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A Hawk-Eye View

Our Brothers across the pond, DBI, have launched their new generation of performance monitoring software.  Brother-Hawk sends automated, customised alerts based on the characteristics of real-time and recently computed data.  Specifically for DB2 LUW databases it gives lights-out alerting of potential … Continue reading

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DB2 for z/OS Plan Stability

One of the major headaches all DB2 users face when upgrading to a new release is the possibility of access path regression. In order to benefit from enhancements to the optimiser, plans and packages need to be rebound under the … Continue reading

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Coupling Facility Sizing Tool

Just a short blog entry this week: If you find yourself trying to build a parallel sysplex, one of the things you’ll need to do is establish how big your coupling facility (CF) needs to be. IBM provide a handy … Continue reading

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RESTORE.EXE Updated – 64-bit DB2 Support

As the title says, restore.exe (automated redirected restore with TSM support) has been tested against DB2 UDB V8.2 on Windows 2003 Server 64-bit (64-bit instance) and works. Next port will be to Linux 32-bit. Porting to 64-bit will be problematic … Continue reading

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