Previously known for power but not usability, DB2 Universal Database has new easy-to-use wizards and strong support for open-standard XML and Java, making it a competitive solution. DB2's performance ...

is used to debug SAS code. When you submit a SAS statement that accesses DB2 data, DB2DBUG displays any DB2 SQL queries (generated by SAS) that are processed by DB2. The queries are written to the SAS ...

The following sequence of statements would be used in an OS/390 SAS session to establish a connection to DB2 and query the table SYSIBM.SYSTABLES: connect to db2 (ssid=db2p); select * from connection ...

IBM’s BLU acceleration technology speeds DB2 queries against large data sets. Also, using DB2 could cut the labor costs of running a separate data warehouse, given that the pool of available database ...

IBM’s newly released DB2 9.1 (previously code-named “Viper”) sheds many of the limitations of DB2 8, boosting performance, scalability, and security. But one feature in particular, the hybrid ...

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 ...

Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. “We’re the only player in the marketplace that has [a ...

IBM is positive about the possibility of bringing out its DB2 database-management software under an open-source licence. While the computing giant has no immediate plans to open-source DB2, market ...

IBM is positive about the possibility of bringing out its DB2 database management software under an open-source license. While the computing giant has no immediate plans to open-source DB2, market ...