by Frank Fillmore | Jun 16, 2023 | #DataVirtualization, #WatsonQuery, DB2 for Linux Unix Windows, Federation, IBM, International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), Oracle
Greetings after a little while. For those of you who have been working with IBM’s data virtualization technology – as I have – since the beginning (we miss you DataJoiner, Federation Server, et al), there’s yet another new name: Watson Query a service of Cloud Pak for...
by Frank Fillmore | Oct 12, 2020 | DB2 Education, DB2 for Linux Unix Windows, DB2 for z/Linux, DB2 for z/OS, DB2 Gold Consultants, DB2 Stars, International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), TFG Blog
Having participated in many board meeting debates over the years about the best place to hold meetings of the Baltimore/Washington Db2 Users Group, it’s a bit sad to learn that the 2021 IDUG North America Conference is already being planned as a virtual event,...
by Frank Fillmore | Sep 21, 2020 | Baltimore Washington DB2 Users Group, Containers, DataStage, DB2 for z/Linux, DB2 for z/OS, DB2 Migrations, ETL, Federation, HiperSockets, IBM DB2 Services, IBM System z, InfoSphere, International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), Kubernetes, mainframe modernization, OpenShift, Red Hat, Replication, RHEL, Webinar, z/Linux, z/VM
I want to thank everyone who helped make the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Db2 for z/OS Users Group virtual meeting such a great success: my colleague, Kim May, for pulling the meeting together and for filling a void of timely technical content for this topic and this region...
by Frank Fillmore | Jul 14, 2020 | DB2 Education, DB2 for z/OS, DB2 Stars, International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), TFG Blog
The proliferation of webinars and events transitioning to virtual meetings is getting hard to keep up with, and maybe some of the event fatigue is a result of an explosion of invitations. Some events are, however, not to be missed, and one of these is the annual...
by Frank Fillmore | May 20, 2020 | DB2 Education, DB2 for Linux Unix Windows, DB2 for z/OS, International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), TFG Blog
I can’t say I’m too disappointed to be taking a break from conference travel and post conference exhaustion, and it’s refreshing to see the creative changes facilitated by the mass transition to virtual events. Given that the primary goal of these events, whether in...
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