Jan 27

And the results keep right on improving…  we have a very smart kids out there with good futures in the world of computers should they choose to go the direction.  To paraphrase Darth Vader (Star Wars): “The Mainframe is strong with this group…… Continue reading »

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Jan 25

Have you ever been listening to a presenter at a conference or user group meeting thinking to yourself “I could do that”.   Well, here’s your chance to let the world (or at least the Db2 community) that YES you really can that.   Remember, you’ve already done the hard part, you know (learned) DB2.   telling your fiends about what you know is the easy half…… Continue reading »

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Jan 25

On December 10, 2012 (that’s less than one year from now), DB2 9 will be withdrawn from marketing along with DB2 9 VUE and the DB2 9 Utility Suite…… Continue reading »

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Jan 25

Testing for the latest service package RSU1112 (3rd Quarter 2011) is complete.  This addendum contains PE resolution or HIPER/Security/Integrity/Pervasive PTFs and their associated requisites and supersedes through November 2011…… Continue reading »

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Jan 24

I recently had a conversation with a friend about the additional work they may have made for themselves by misinterpreting one sentence for a keyword when they creating a whole pile of their partition-by-growth universal table space…… Continue reading »

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Dec 23

Not a creature was stirring…  well actually, everyone what stirring; who could possibly sleep with everything that was going…  Televisions blaring, banging in the kitchen, cars going by out front, people’s smart phones and cell phones buzzing when they receive their messages or texts…… Continue reading »

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Dec 22

Many of you will recognize Paul’s name.  You’ve seen it on books (I have a few of his books on my bookshelf), Redbooks, articles, and on the speaker list for most conferences that involve information management and IBM.  He’s another one of those IBMers that hails from Toronto (IBM Toronto Lab) that’s famous around the world and can be quite the asset to have access to if you are dealing with DB2 LUW…… Continue reading »

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Dec 21

At some point in time, people have actually asked me that question. I would always answer “No”. After I was sure they were appropriately shocked, I would add “Nothing that isn’t technical, that is”…… Continue reading »

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Dec 12

Testing for the latest service package RSU1111 (3rd Quarter 2011) is complete.  This addendum contains PE resolution or HIPER/Security/Integrity/Pervasive PTFs and their associated requisites and supersedes through October 2011…… Continue reading »

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Dec 10

With each new month, we are almost always getting a few of the product publications refreshed.  That trend continues for December with all the active releases of DB2 getting a little something new…

This will probably wrap it up for publication changes in 2011 with 2011 closin gout with quite a big splash…….

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