by Craig S. Mullins | Apr 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Today, April 7, 2022, the IBM mainframe officially celebrates its 58th birthday. The IBM 360 was launched on April 7, 1964 and the world of enterprise computing has never been the same.I'm old enough to remember in the early 1990s when Stewart Alsop of...
by Craig S. Mullins | Mar 9, 2022 | conference, idug
Well, it looks like this year IDUG will be a live, in-person event again after a couple years of living virtually. The COVID pandemic took its toll on IT events and conferences, but I, for one, am looking forward to getting back out there and mingling – safely – with...
by Craig S. Mullins | Feb 8, 2022 | UDFs
A user-defined function, or UDF for short, enables you to customize Db2 to your shop's requirements. It is a very powerful feature that can be used to add procedural functionality, coded by the user, to Db2. The UDF, once coded and implemented...
by Craig S. Mullins | Feb 1, 2022 | audit, data governance, database auditing, regulatory compliance
The increasing burden of complying with government and industry regulations imposes significant, time-consuming requirements on IT projects and applications. And nowhere is the pressure to comply with regulations greater than on data stored in corporate databases....
by Craig S. Mullins | Jan 24, 2022 | date, functions, time
After turning the last page on the 2021 calendar to embark on another year, I thought it might be a good time to reflect on date and time data... and how it can be used in Db2 for z/OS.One of the most important database design decisions you will make – for Db2 or,...
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