DataKinetics, a provider of mainframe transaction and performance solutions, announced a solution designed to increase mainframe data capacity and throughput while decreasing data access request time ...

As is normal with a new version of DB2, IBM boasts of performance improvements available in DB2 11. The claims range from out-of-the-box savings ranging from 10% to 40% for different types of query ...

Just in time for what will be a large number of required migrations, CA Technologies has updated its software for managing DB2 databases running on IBM z/OS mainframes. “DB2 is a very rich environment ...

When IBM introduced version 10 of DB2 for z/OS in 2010, it promised customers that upgrading to this version of 10 percent, thanks in part to DB2’s use of these co-processors. Even greater gains in ...

DB2: What’s in a Name? The name DB2, or IBM Database 2, was first given to the Database Management System or DBMS, in 1983 when IBM released DB2 on its MVS mainframe platform. For some years DB2, was ...

Exploiting recent hardware enhancements that IBM added into its System z mainframe servers, enterprise software provider BMC has updated its line of performance tuning products to help customers get ...