by Craig S. Mullins | Apr 7, 2021 | 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 are a few links...
by Craig S. Mullins | Mar 14, 2021 | compression, Function Level, IDAA, referential integrity, temporal
Late last month, February 2021, IBM introduced a new function level, FL509, for Db2 12 for z/OS. You can find in-depth details here.But if you are looking for a high-level synopsis, read on! There are several interesting new capabilities introduced with...
by Craig S. Mullins | Jan 7, 2021 | automation, autonomous digital enterprise, BMC, digital transformation, mainframe, operations, performance
Assuring the performance of your mainframe systems and applications is an imposing task that keeps getting more complex all the time. It makes sense to arm your IT performance analysts, DBAs, and systems programmers with modern tools so you can optimize performance...
by Craig S. Mullins | Jan 1, 2021 | Happy New Year
Well, here it is, the day we've all waited for since about March of last year... the dawning of a new year. Happy New Year 2021!Good riddance to 2020 and all of the problems we faced and hello to a brand new year that, of course, will bring new problems and...
by Craig S. Mullins | Dec 17, 2020 | check, COPY, LOAD, performance, recover, REORG, RUNSTATS, UNLOAD, utilities
Db2 utilities are the unappreciated, and often over-looked, workhorses of your mainframe Db2 environment. They perform the dirty work that has to be done to populate, organize, backup, and recover your vital mainframe data. Without them, building effective Db2...
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