This is the 11th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the ...

sharing resources between multiple IMS-DL/I subsystems. The concepts of read integrity and update integrity are important in a description of resource sharing. Read integrity means that two programs ...

BMC Software Inc. has added IBM Corp.’s IMS mainframe database to the platforms supported by its SmartDBA family of products, completing a two-year mission to provide tools for managing all of the ...

Tom Jodel, who is himself a programmer, interviewed his mother, who works as an IBM mainframe COBOL programmer at a major bank, about banking systems. Jodel's mother started in-house training at ...

The world of enterprise data is evolving at an incredible pace, and businesses are grappling with increasingly complex data landscapes. This demands more from their database systems than ever before.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. IBM doesn’t release a whole lot of news detailing the ins ...

Dayal Sukumaran currently works as a senior database administrator at the Miami campus of Assurant (www.assurant.com). Sukumaran has many years of database experience and is an IBM Certified DB2 DBA.

IBM has issued a patch to plug a critical flaw in its DB2 database management system that an attacker could exploit to take complete control of a system. The flaw was discovered in DB2 version 9.1 ...