PkgCache #24: The Cache Awakens

Recorded October 22, 2015 • 47 minutes

Fred and Ian review IDUG North America, discuss plans for IBM Insight and IDUG EMEA and then discuss Fixpacks, BLU MPP and come down with a mild case of zEnvy™.

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Show Notes & Links

• IDUG North America 2015 Wrap-up Article

• Insight 2015 was great, but something was missing

• IDUG North America 2016 will be in Austin. The Call for Presentations closes October 30, 2015 November 7, 2015!

• IDUG Europe 2015 is in Dublin in 2 weeks!

  

  Conference Grid

  Fred’s Picks:

  • D04: The 5 Ws of Database Encryption
  • E05: Analyze youR Data (with R)
  • F13: What a DBA Needs to Know about Distributed Shells and SSH

   

  Ian’s Picks:

  • D02: Facilitate WLM functions and tools to improve your monitoring
  • D07: Best Practices for Minimizing and Eliminating Planned outages with DB2 LUW



 

• Fixpacks have been released for all current versions of DB2

• BLU MPP available in dashDB Offering

• “DB2 on Cloud” pre-built configurations for OLTP databases in the cloud.

• Dan Luksetich’s article on JSON and REST in DB2 for z/OS

• IBM has already announced an early beta for DB2 12 on z/OS!