Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Db2 13 for z/OS: Autobind Phase-In

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Db2 13 function level 504 became available last month (October 2023), via the fix for APAR PH54919. One of the new capabilities delivered w...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Db2 13 for z/OS: A New Means for Managing RELEASE(DEALLOCATE) Packages

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It has long been understood by many Db2 for z/OS DBAs that a combination of the RELEASE(DEALLOCATE) package bind specification (especially f...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Db2 for z/OS: Two Stories of Temporary Tables

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Db2 for z/OS provides, for your use, two different temporary table types: declared and created. I recently worked with Db2 for z/OS people a...
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Thursday, August 31, 2023

Db2 for z/OS: An Important Difference Between Data in Memory and Data on Disk

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For the past several years, I've tried to post an entry per month to this blog. Sometimes, it will be very near the end of a month, and ...
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Friday, July 28, 2023

Db2 for z/OS: What I Would Say to Application Developers (Part 2)

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In the part 1 of this 2-part entry (posted last month), I emphasized what I consider to be job one for a developer coding a Db2 for z/OS-ta...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Db2 for z/OS: What I Would Say to Application Developers (Part 1)

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Not long ago, I received a request to deliver a couple of Db2 for z/OS-focused webcasts for an organization's application developers. Th...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

OUTBUFF: A Db2 for z/OS ZPARM You Really Ought to Check

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Over the past year or so, I've seen more and more situations in which a too-small Db2 for z/OS log output buffer is negatively impacting...