Two more Redbooks of particular interest to me have been added to the ever growing list of Redbooks now available in EPUB format. This is, for me at least, great news. I like having my Redbooks listed in iBook on my iPad in a format that is just a little easier to work with than the traditional PDF format……. Continue reading »
Last Thursday I had the chance to listened in to Cristian Molaro 
talk about the z/OS component workload manager (WLM). He discussed how DB2 can take advantage of WLM and how you can manage WLM on the DB2 Night Show . He even goes into a few no-charge tools available to you for download form the IBM web site…… Continue reading »
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 »
blog.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 
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 »
I know, you didn’t even know Workload Manager (WLM) managed buffer pools left, or possibly you didn’t know about this particular function at all. It wasn’t discussed all that much. Although announced with DB2 9 back in March 2007, it wasn’t quite ready for prime time like the rest of DB2 9 at announcement time. It’s been laying back waiting for the right moment to pop up again… Continue reading »
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