Db2 for z/OS Development is again offering a week-long virtual Db2 for z/OS Master Class,led by Distinguished Engineer,John Campbell, for experienced Db2 for z/OS System Engineers and Database Administrators. This is a fee based class costing US$2500 per person.

During this class, John will discuss the most common issues related to continuous availability and speed of recovery in Db2 for z/OS environments, and will share proven best practices to exploit…

Announcing IBM Db2 AI for z/OS 1.3 – the evolution continues -- moving enterprise relational databases into the future!

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The end of service (EOS) for Db2 11 for z/OS is now changed to March 31, 2021. For the details, See Mo's recent News from the Lab blog entry.

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By Dorothy Lin and Paul McWilliams.

Perhaps you've seen news about the sunset of the IBM developerWorks community platform at the end of 2019. I am happy that I can now share how you can continue following the latest news from the IBM experts who design, build, test, and support Db2 for z/OS, here in the new Db2 for z/OS Community.

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In Db2 12, you can transfer the ownership of database and system objects online if you are the owner of the object or have SECADM authority. You can use TRANSFER OWNERSHIP statements to transfer ownership of an objects to another authorization ID or a role, without any application changes.

For the full story on this new SQL capability, see the new Db2 12 GA feature series post, Transferring ownership of Db2 objects by…

We're proud to announce that Db2 12 for z/OS function level 505 becomes available for activation when you apply APAR PH09191. Function level 505 introduces the following new capabilities in Db2 12 for z/OS.

• Improved Hybrid Transactional Analytical Processing…

Partition-by-range (PBR) table spaces with relative page numbers (RPN) in Db2 12 for z/OS improve the usability, manageability, scalability, and availability for the largest tables in Db2 environments.

Read the full story in the Db2 for z/OS News from the Lab blog:
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In Db2 12, APAR PH08482 simplifies the process of activating new function levels without impacting existing JDBC, CLI, and .net applications, and it possibly reduces the coordination effort required between Db2 administrators and application programmers, for activating new application compatibility (APPLCOMPAT) levels. With this APAR applied, Db2 12 assumes that the IBM Data Server Drivers at…