Surekha Parekh

Analytics, Mobile, and Cloud are changing the landscape for enterprise customers. These technology trends are driven partly by an explosion of data and by business’ needs to gain “deeper business insight” from enterprise data, to improve business efficiency and effectiveness. The enterprise’s data server is at the heart of this revolution—so data servers must be agile, secure, and integrate seamlessly with these newer technologies. This book provides an overview of how DB2 12 addresses these business and technological needs. It will help architects and IT professionals understand DB2 12’s capabilities and ensure that business and IT are aligned, and also ensure that they design and deliver an architecture that supports the most efficient and secure IT environment to meet an enterprise’s business needs.

Data is becoming the world's new "natural resource," transforming industries and professions across the board. Smart, innovative organizations know that data is the new basis of gaining a competitive advantage. DB2 for z/OS remains the leading database for storing mission-critical data. This book explains how DB2 for z/OS and supporting products enable businesses to use their data to gain a competitive advantage.

Essential information about early customer experiences, migration advice, and performance specifics from IBM experts directly involved in the development of DB2 11 Building on the previously published DB2 11: The Database for Big Data and Analytics, this book is particularly for new and existing DB2 for z/OS customers and users who want to learn as much as they can about the new software version before migrating their organizations to DB2 11 for z/OS. The guide begins with a technical overview of DB2 11 features and explains how the new functions in DB2 11 can help enterprise customers address the challenges they face with the explosion of data and information. There has been rapid growth in the variety, volume, and velocity of data due to the increase of smart devices, mobile applications, cloud computing, and social media, and many of the enhancements in DB2 11 are focused on enabling enterprise customers to respond to these market opportunities in a cost-effective way. The book includes a detailed discussion for helping customers plan their DB2 11 migration strategy, and shares experiences of people who have already upgraded to DB2 11 and participated in IBM's Early Support Program. A third section of the book addresses one of the most common obstacles that prevents customers from migrating to a new release: the need to implement any code changes required due to application incompatibilities. With DB2 11's "application compatibility" support, such applications can continue to run under the new release until those changes can be implemented, removing them as an upgrade dependency.

The landscape of today's business is shaped by the mountains of data being produced, with rapid growth in the volume, variety, and velocity of data due to the explosion of smart devices, mobile applications, cloud computing, and social media. Much of this growth has been in unstructured data; however, by 2020, internet business transactions--business-to-business and business-to-consumer--are predicted to reach 450 billion per day. Smart organizations are seeking innovative ways to turn this explosion of data, called big data, into actionable insights. This book explores the attributes that make IBM's DB2 11 for z/OS the ideal database for big data and business-critical analytics in the new era of computing. It is packed with rich information about features and business benefits of the relational database management system's newest software release, including even more out-of-the-box CPU savings, enhanced resiliency, capabilities to excel at business-critical analytics, and simpler, faster upgrades for quicker return on investment (ROI). Find out why DB2 is the database of choice for big data and analytics by top businesses around the world.

Addressing the cost control and efficiency pressures in the current economic climate, this handbook offers solutions for DB2 for z/OS customers seeking competitive advantages for increased productivity and operational efficiency. This guide prepares businesses for DB2 updates and changes. Included in this book are reviews of performance improvement, methods to improve database security, and suggestions for better usability and interfacing with SQL8 and pureXML.

Providing expert knowledge about the features in the new release of DB2 for z/OS, this extensive guide details the innovations of DB2 10's SQL and pureXML enhancements--which increase productivity, enhance performance, and simplify application ports. DB2 for z/OS continues to be the undisputed leader in total system availability, scalability, security, and reliability at the lowest cost per transaction. This resource focuses on the features and functions of DB2 10 for IT, including improving operational efficiencies and reducing costs, as well as covering innovations in resiliency for business-critical information, rapid application and warehouse deployment for business growth, and enhanced business analytics and mathematical functions with QMF.