Five Ways to Make your DB2 Data Delicious for Application Development

Recently on the REDDIT DB2 forum someone raised a question (found here) about DB2’s future in application development. The question and answers talked about the database industry and the reason DB2 is positioned in the upper right quadrant in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrants found here.

To address some of those concerns, here . . . → Read More: Five Ways to Make your DB2 Data Delicious

More DB2 Family Security Best Practices Part 5

The next part of this DB2 Family Security Best Practices blog series talks about developing a unique corporate security. This security is unique within your organization and unique within your applications.

Given that encryption can have performance overhead, can complicate management procedures, and require application changes, sometime it’s not an option. So another DB2 security . . . → Read More: More DB2 Family Security Best Practices Part 5

More DB2 Family Security Best Practices Part 4

The next part (Part 4) of this DB2 Family Security Best Practices blog talks about the many aspects and issues around DB2 LUW and DB2 z/OS encryption. Encryption needs to be discussed extensively with your security department and various applications because it has long term impacts on operations, maintenance, and applications.

First, DB2 encryption protects . . . → Read More: More DB2 Family Security Best Practices Part 4

More DB2 Family Security Best Practices Part 3

As I started Part 3 of this DB2 Family Security Best Practices blog, I was notified that my personal information was hacked again. That is five different times my information has been taken. So I offer this third installment on database security that will hopefully help every company secure their data.

I have quickly realized . . . → Read More: More DB2 Family Security Best Practices Part 3

Top 10 DB2 Family Security Best Practices Part 2

Below is Part 2 of the Top 10 DB2 Family Security Best Practices. All the DB2 security-minded DBAs and system administrators should verify their DB2 security configuration along with their DB2 security authority definitions as soon as possible. The first five parts of the Top 10 DB2 Family Security Best Practices that I talked . . . → Read More: Top 10 DB2 Family Security Best Practices Part 2

Top 10 DB2 Family Security Best Practices Part 1

The DB2 database family leads the industry with some of the best security features, safeguards, and mechanisms to secure your data. Security breaches of any database trouble us all, so it is always good to review the best security practices available. Below are a list of the top ten that all DB2 DBAs should verify . . . → Read More: Top 10 DB2 Family Security Best Practices Part 1

IDUG Europe 2013 - 4 Topics on Everyone’s Mind

This year DB2 celebrates 30 years of helping clients. The IDUG conferences are always great venues to connect with colleagues from around the world. The stories about companies, projects, and tools are very valuable to understand the truth, the hype, what is working, and how it is being done. The following three topics seem to . . . → Read More: IDUG Europe 2013 – 4 Topics on Everyone’s Mind

Mainframe Is Still Cheaper: Cost Analysis of the Infrastructure

Working with various companies over the years I’ve found that mainframe customers usually have figures on the zOS mainframe utilization and DB2 performance statistics from their DB2 database environments. I am always amazed when working with DB2 LUW customers that these companies only create historical utilization and performance figures for the UNIX or Windows environments . . . → Read More: Mainframe Is Still Cheaper: Cost Analysis of the Infrastructure

DB2 10 for zOS Migration Vendor Tips from the IDUG Conference

The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) conference was last week and one of the great traditions is talking with all the DB2 vendors at the conference. Getting the latest information and understanding of their product strategies, directions and enhancements can be great for planning your database infrastructure future support activities. The following are three areas . . . → Read More: DB2 10 for zOS Migration Vendor Tips from the IDUG Conference

IDUG EMEA Conference Starts Off with Great Information

The IDUG DB2 training conference has officially started and it was great to see a large number of people. Curt Cotner and Namik Hrle started off this DB2 education conference with a great keynote presentation. They highlighted the roadmap of the coming and present features of DB2 z/OS and DB2 LUW.

They talked about the . . . → Read More: IDUG EMEA DB2 Training Conference Starts Off with Great Information