Previously known for power but not usability, DB2 Universal Database has new easy-to-use wizards and strong support for open-standard XML and Java, making it a competitive solution. DB2's performance ...

The following sequence of statements would be used in an OS/390 SAS session to establish a connection to DB2 and query the table SYSIBM.SYSTABLES: connect to db2 (ssid=db2p); select * from connection ...

IBM’s newly released DB2 9.1 (previously code-named “Viper”) sheds many of the limitations of DB2 8, boosting performance, scalability, and security. But one feature in particular, the hybrid ...

is used to debug SAS code. When you submit a SAS statement that accesses DB2 data, DB2DBUG displays any DB2 SQL queries (generated by SAS) that are processed by DB2. The queries are written to the SAS ...

Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. “We’re the only player in the marketplace that has [a ...

In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that promise to make the venerable database management system (DBMS) better ...

Despite the attention given to new big data management technologies, Db2 remains one of the most widely used database management systems in the world and a fundamental component of many enterprise ...

Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. “We’re the only player in the marketplace that has [a ...

DataKinetics, a provider of mainframe transaction and performance solutions, announced a solution designed to increase mainframe data capacity and throughput while decreasing data access request time ...

Exploiting recent hardware enhancements that IBM added into its System z mainframe servers, enterprise software provider BMC has updated its line of performance tuning products to help customers get ...