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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This information is gathered from database systems and additional sources (for example, third-party vendor data dictionaries) and stored in SAS files for fast access. This information is used to ...

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 ...

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 ...