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Ups and downs in the economy and in IT come and go. Based on my experience, here are three strong strategies to keep you going in turbulent IT times. Read more…

Because I’ve been an IT consultant for a long time, I’ve had the pleasure of watching things change and yet somehow remain the same. Take project management.  Read more…

As another year passed, I started to schedule all the normal summer time activities – going to the dentist, that wonderful checkup to be poked by the doctor, and cleaning up or throwing out all the additional stuff I have accumulated over the last year.  Since vacation schedule is upon us and the environment won’t freeze for a while, the time is right to double check and clean up your DB2 z/OS systems.  Read more…

DB2 9 for z/OS has many new features that give database and application designers greater flexibility to solve business problems. I recently helped a client with an application design review and saw first hand how implementing many of these features can immediately and dramatically improve performance. Read more…