IBM ON TUESDAY announced not only a new 64-bit version of DB2 for mainframes, but also new tools to support DB2 7.0 for OS/390 and IBM’s zSeries. Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM also broke some of the ...

Probably the biggest is the ability to support Hadoop access. DB2 11 can be used to enable applications to easily and efficiently access Hadoop data sources using the generic table UDF capability to ...

identifies the DB2 table or DB2 view that you want to use to create an access descriptor. Table name is limited to 18 characters. If you quote the name, it is case-sensitive. The TABLE= statement is ...

Saldanha stressed that Mainframe Chorus isn't merely a front end but a role-based approach to management. The first part of the product to be released is Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database Management.