Posted by Mike on Saturday, April 9, 2011
Exploiting recent hardware enhancements that IBM added into its System z mainframe servers, enterprise software provider BMC has updated its line of performance tuning products to help customers get more from the latest version of the DB2 database.
BMC has upgraded 23 of its mainframe service management applications so that they will support version 10 DB2 databases running on System z9 and z10 mainframe servers, noted Robin Reddick, BMC director of marketing for mainframe service management.
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Posted by Mike on Sunday, February 13, 2011
Now I’m not here to tell you what software to buy and what to ignore, but if you haven’t had a look at IBM’s Transactional Analysis Workbench software yet, I think you should. It’s one of those pieces of software that kind of joins up the dots and allows you to see the bigger picture when you thought there was a performance problem. It can help identify performance issues in one subsystem – CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ, or even z/OS itself – when the symptoms of the problem are appearing in a completely different subsystem.
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, November 6, 2010
Here’s a place to find free Online IBM Reference Manuals for Mainframe Cobol, Batch Processing, Online Processing, Tools, Editors, Utilities, Databases and Messages. I’m sure there are probably others, so feel free to leave comments.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 17, 2010
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an IBM POWER7-based system with IBM DB2 database software and IBM System Storage broke all previous records and topped the 10 million transactions per minute mark using the industry standard TPC performance benchmark, easily besting all results previously achieved by competitors such as HP and Oracle.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 21, 2010
PORTLAND, Ore. — Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has always had many user and developer fans. Enterprise business fans? Not so much. Canonical hopes to change that with today’s, July 21, launch of a virtual appliance of IBM’s DB2 Express-C software running on the Ubuntu cloud computing platform, in private and public cloud configurations. The company also announced that IBM has validated the full version of DB2 software on Ubuntu 10.04.
This is all part of Canonical’s plan to make Ubuntu just as much of an enterprise business player as Novell or Red Hat.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Customer experience management solution available on DB2 9.7
CINCINNATI – June 29, 2010 – Software and services provider Cincom Systems (http://www.cincom.com/), an IBM Premier Business Partner, announces that its Synchrony Customer Experience Management (CEM) solution (http://winningconversations.cincom.com/) is validated with IBM’s DB2 database software. Synchrony and DB2 users can benefit from the combined technologies to connect and interact at a personal level with customers, while gaining full benefit from DB2’s performance, reliability, security, and ease of use.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, May 24, 2010
IBM claimed that several companies have moved database management software from Oracle to DB2 in the past 12 months, and that its new SQL Skin software will … READ MORE
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, May 15, 2010
DB2 10 for z/OS delivers out-of-the-box savings, unsurpassed resiliency, rapid application and warehouse deployment and enhanced query and reporting … READ MORE
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