Oct 18

What are my plans for the IOD 2012 Conference next week in Las Vegas

By Willie DB2 Family, DB2 for z/OS (General), Event, Information on Demand (IOD) Comments Off

We’re are just a few days away form IBM’s premier Information Management (IM) conference, the Information on Demand (IOD) 2012 Conference .   If you are a DB2 or IMS person, this is the event you want (and hope) to attend.   It’s scheduled to have some of the best customer and IBM speakers available this year so it should be quite the event.  Even Don Haderle, one of the true greats in the history of DB2, will be in attendance.   There will be tech specialist to listen to and talk with, comedians, rock band, lots of food, authors (and book signings), lots of IBM Executives, IBM Fellows, IBM Distinguished Engineers to meet (and in some cases listen to), all to go along with the 400+ information management sessions, the 100+ hands-on labs, the usability sandboxes, and the 300 exhibitors in the Expo.  If that not enough, you get to share it all with more than 10,000 of your “closest” IT friends.

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Jan 25

The “2012 DB2′s GOT TALENT Contest” is almost here! Have you entered?

By Willie DB2 Family, DB2 for z/OS (General), DB2 LUW, Event Comments Off

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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Dec 22

Looking for a good technical book? Have you checked out what’s available from Paul Zikopoulos?

By Willie DB2 Family, Fun Stuff to Discuss, Just my view on things, Publication Comments Off

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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Nov 12

Have you read a good IBM Redbook lately?

By Willie DB2 Family, z/OS, zEnterprise Comments Off

As the title asked, “Have you read a good Redbook lately?” If you have, did you tell us (IBM)…. On every Redbook download page, there is a spot in the right hand column, just a little bit under the Redbook logo logo where you can rate the a Redbook and enter your comments. Just click on the link’s label “Rate this book” (or maybe it might say “Rate this draft”, “Rate this paper”, etc…)….. Continue reading »

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Feb 24

DB2′s Virtual Index Support

By Willie DB2 Family Comments Off

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just prototype an index and not have to go through the overhead of creating a new index, all just to find out if the optimizer might decide to use it? Guess what? You can. As of DB2 9 for z/OS (and back fitted into DB2 Version 8 via APAR PK46687 ), virtual indexes are now available for your use…. Continue reading »

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Jan 06

Optimization Service Center for DB2 for z/OS deprecated

By Willie DB2 Family Comments Off

They say, all good things must come to an end. This old adage seems so appropriate for the software business. After all the talk about the coolness and usefulness of Optimization Service Center (OSC), it gets deprecated… Continue reading »

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