by Craig S. Mullins | Sep 8, 2022 | compliance, data masking, data protection
A three-pronged set of trends are conspiring to increase the need for organizations to protect and mask sensitive data stored in Db2 for z/OS databases:data privacy regulations place specific requirements on how data is to be protected, data breaches continue to...
by Craig S. Mullins | Sep 6, 2022 | book, compliance, data, database, DB2, design, eBook
Today's blog post is to introduce my regular readers to a series of new books that I am writing and selling exclusively on Amazon. The books will be shorter than the ones I've written in the past, each one will be under 100 pages. The primary audience is for Kindle...
by Craig S. Mullins | Sep 1, 2022 | dirty read, ISOLATION, locking
Did you know that Db2 provides a method to change the way a program or SQL statement acquires locks? That way is known as the isolation level and it can be set to specify the locking behavior for a transaction or statement. Standard SQL defines four isolation levels...
by Craig S. Mullins | Aug 4, 2022 | cost, specialty processors, zIIP
If you work with Db2 then you need to know about the IBM zIIP specialty processor. This is true whether you are a DBA or a developer... and, let's face it, if you work on a mainframe in any capacity, you'll want to know at least something about zIIPs.With that in...
by Craig S. Mullins | Jun 17, 2022 | data management, data masking, database archiving, DBA, idug, in-memory
Just a quick note to let everybody who is coming to Boston in July for IDUG know what I will be speaking about and when my presentations are scheduled!First of all, my regular IDUG session this year is titled "Things Your DBAs Hear... and how to stop making them...
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