In a current customer engagement we are enabling zIIP to reduce CPU consumption.  Our first overnight install has been a great success.  On the 1st mainframe LPAR (out of 4) we are seeing initial signs of 41-54% DB2 CPU reduction … Continue reading →

In an ideal world all organisations would be running the latest software versions and upgrading when new versions came out, in order to benefit from the latest innovations and also to ensure that software was officially supported by the vendor. … Continue reading →

…it gave compression of up to 5 times resulting in more space savings and enhanced performance. In 2011 we worked with one of our longest standing customers, Holiday Extras, on a migration project and helped them migrate from their DB2 … Continue reading →

As part of the Migration Month focus on DB2 10 Migration we ran an additional webcast yesterday with Julian Stuhler of Triton Consulting and Mike Bracey of IBM.  This webcast focussed on the security enhancements introduced in DB2 10.  The … Continue reading →

This month our partners, DBI Software launch their second “DB2′s Got Talent” competition to find real talent within the world of DB2.  Open to DB2 users from both the LUW and z/OS camps this contest is designed to enable DB2 … Continue reading →

Over the last year there have been some exciting enhancements to DB2 pureScale.  At IDUG EMEA Matt Huras, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Toronto Laboratory, gave an excellent presentation which ran through some of the key enhancements including: More platform choices – … Continue reading →

Says Iqbal Goralwalla, our Head of DB2 Midrange Services in a recent interview on masteringdatamanagement.com in their “Meet the IBM Champions” series. During the interview Iqbal talked about Triton’s quantative complexity analysis of IBM DB2 9.7 Vs Oracle 11gR2.  The … Continue reading →