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Wireshark with Lua on RHEL / CentOS
Wireshark with Lua-based dissectorWhat do you do on a rainy public holiday with COVID19 restrictions in place? Finally get Wireshark to work with Lua support to have custom dissectors. Dissectors are useful to turn binary garbage into readable TCP or U…
Thinking About the Mainframe, the Cloud, and IBM Think 2021
A Bit about Think I am looking forward to attending the IBM Think 2021 conference, IBM’s annual flagship technology event. I have attended several in-person Think events, as well as last year’s virtual conference, and I always come away with new k…
The DB2Night Show #235: Db2 for LUW Latest News
Presented by: Piotr Mierzejewski Director Db2 LUW Development IBM Data & AI, IBM Toronto Lab
“The DB2Night Show #235: Db2 Latest News” Replays available in WMV and M4V formats, and on youtube!
100% of our studio audience learned som…
Db2 for z/OS: Dealing With Application Compatibility Errors (-4743 SQL Error Code)
The notion of “application compatibility,” in a Db2 for z/OS context, has been around for a while – it was introduced with Db2 11, which came out in 2013; still, in my experience it’s been only recently that a number of Db2 for z/OS administrators have…
DB2Night Show #Z116: Integrate Db2 for z/OS DB changes in Dev pipeline
Presented by: Maryela Weihrauch, Distinguished Engineer, IBM SVL & Kendrick Ren, Development Lead
“The DB2Night Show Z116: Integrate Db2 for z/OS database changes in your enterprise DevOps pipeline” Replays available in WMV and M4V form…
The DB2Night Show #234: Db2 Query Optimization 101
Presented by: John Hornibrook STSM, IBM Toronto Lab
“The DB2Night Show #234: Db2 Query Optimization 101” Replays available in WMV and M4V formats!
100% of our studio audience learned something!John presented how Db2 query optimizati…
Happy Birthday to the IBM Mainframe
I am older than the mainframe… I turned 58 on April 3rd, and the IBM mainframe officially celebrates its 57th birthday today, April 7th.The IBM 360 was launched on April 7, 1964 and the world of enterprise computing has never been the same.Here …
Upcoming Db2 IDUG conferences
A quick post on the upcoming Db2 conferences, organized by the International Db2 User Group (IDUG). The IDUG North America “2021 NA Db2 Tech Conference” is going to be a virtual event again. It is scheduled from June 7-16, 2021. The conference agenda i…
Db2 for z/OS: Clearing Up Some Matters Pertaining to PGSTEAL(NONE) Buffer Pools
I have written a few entries for this blog in which I provided information about Db2 for z/OS buffer pools defined with PGSTEAL(NONE), including one from a few years ago in which I differentiated the PGSTEAL and PGFIX buffer pool specifications, a…
cron-like scheduling on IBM Cloud
cron-like schedulingSome days ago I stumbled over my 2015 post “Bluemix: Simple cron-like service for my Python code”. It is not just the name Bluemix which is dated. Since then, it has transformed into IBM Cloud Platform and has added serverless compu…
Featured Articles
Accelerating Your Db2 Database
by Larry Strickland
Db2 for z/OS: Why You Might See a Lot of Catalog Access for Package Authorization Checks
by Robert Barnes
Track IBM license usage with AWS License Manager
by Khurram Nizami