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• Reduces the risk of revenue loss and reputational damage

• Protects mission-critical…

If Business Analytics is mission critical - is big data also by default? June 25,2013 11:00EDT. "Maximizing insight with big data analytics". I think it is. But what do you think ?

Attend this webcast and you decide :)

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…

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 Hierarchy Strikes Back

Within few months we’ll have DB2 for z/OS next incarnation – the 11^th in number (Sequoia – DB2 11).

A group of dedicated DB2 bigots J embarked on the mission to spread the gospel of the goodies to come decided to write a White Paper on it to help ease it in.

This is the 1^st blog (and partial chapter) on one…

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…

Intrigued by the title? Let me put this in perspective. The Past - you have been doing big data for a long time by leveraging available data from "a number" of different sources. Admittedly the volume, the variety and velocity of that data may have been considerably smaller. The Present - your world is turned upside down by the ever increasing 3Vs. New technologies like Stream computing and Hadoop have revolutionized the way we process and analyze data. Hardware and storage is faster, it's…

I'll tell you why.... The more insight we seek the more intimate we become with entities in our business and the data that relates to them.  Today's analytics delves deep into the data in our every day lives - what we purchased, what car we own, who we are related to, how much we earn. where and how we spend it, our health status, marital status, how many children we have, what we like and what we don't like - the list goes on.

So come listen to me talk with my co presenter Rebecca…