IDUG is always packed with great educational resources and is a great networking opportunity. Without doubts, the grid is one of the main ingredients of IDUG EMEA. The grid is the result of a long process that involves many hours of volunteering work. The members of the Conference Planning Committee invest a great deal of passion as well on trying to build the best educational offering for the DB2 community. 

The grid is now available online at …

DB2 Plan Management was introduced in DB2 9 for z/OS as an elegant way of providing a quick fall-back option in case of access path degradation during REBIND.

With Plan Management DB2 saves old copies of packages at REBIND time, so you may SWITCH back to previous copies in case of problems...

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Summary
DB2 10.5 has been made available recently. One of the most interesting features is Columnar based tables and the BLU technology. This article will help you to get up and running in no time with your first BLU table.

Introduction
This week IBM made available DB2 10.5 for download and you can get a trial version of the product free of charge.

I have been looking after BLU tables and this was a great temptation to give it a…

The DB2 for z/OS version 10 DDF migration infoapar II14619 should be in the list of your most regarded references in your migration to DB2 10. Among other interesting details, you can find this text:

To support the seamless migration of DB2 for z/OS data sharing members in a remote Sysplex workload balancing environment, the following client driver levels are required:
- IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC…