Hi,
Here is a non-profit website about DB2 for z/OS and OS/390 (IBM mainframes):
http://www.db2usa.r8.org
or
http://db2usa2.free.fr/eliendb2.htm
Last update on Tuesday, June 1st 2004
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* Technical papers about DB2:
http://db2usa2.free.fr/earticle.htm
Summer 2004 issue of DB2mag is available on line:
- Parlez-Vous DB2 for LUW (Part 2) by Robert Catterall, DB2mag, Summer 2004.
- Say What? Part 3 by Bonnie Baker, DB2mag, Summer 2004.
Technical papers from dbazine.com are available on line:
- Database Changement Management and Schema Evolution in DB2 for z/OS
Version 8 by Craig Mullins, dbazine.com, 2004.
- An Introduction to DB2 Indexing by Craig Mullins, dbazine.com, 2004.
- DB2 or VSAM? by Craig Mullins, dbazine.com, 2004.
Some technical papers from z/journal are available on line:
- DB2 Universal Database for z/OS Version 8: Pre-Planning Your Migration by
Lockwood Lyon, z/Journal, April 2004
- Materialization Query Tables and the Death of Denormalization by Craig
Mullins, z/Journal, April 2004
- A Look at The Modes of DB2 V8 by Craig Mullins, z/Journal, February 2004
- Sequence objects and Identity Columns by Craig Mullins, z/Journal,
December 2003
- Using RACF to Control Access to DB2 Objects by Mark Nelson, Randy Love
and Adrian Lobo, z/Journal, December 2003
- DB2 V8: Online Schema Evolution by Craig Mullins, z/Journal, October 2003
* DB2 redbooks
http://db2usa2.free.fr/eredbook.htm
Several new redbooks are available on line:
- SG24-7069-00 2004-05-14 DFSMShsm Fast Replication Technical Guide
- SG24-6079-00 2004-05-07 DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8: Everything You Ever
Wanted To Know, ... and More
- SG24-6867-00 2004-05-07 IBM DB2 Performance Expert for z/OS Version 2
* DB2 newsgroups and FAQ
http://db2usa2.free.fr/eforum.htm
DB2 Examples Trading Post is a new resource from IBM website.
Take a look at IBM Information Center about DB2 for z/OS documentation.
Take a look at DB2 Tips of the Month from Quest Software.
* DB2 conferences
http://db2usa2.free.fr/econference.htm
DB2 presentations from Share are available on line:
- DB2 Development Center Update by Peggy Rader (IBM SVL), February 2004
- Accessing Your DB2 Data from Websphere by Robert Moxham (Kaiser
Permanente), February 2004
- Put your DB2 for z/OS Database on a Diet by Robert Caterall (CheckFree),
February 2004
- DB2 for z/OS - Data Sharing 101 by Robert Caterall (CheckFree), February
2004
- DB2 is from Mars and Webservers are from Venus by Sean Lee (IBM),
February 2004
- DB2 UDB for Workstation Environments - 25 Tips and Hints for the DB2 for
z/OS DBA by Danny Arnold (IBM), February 2004
- Health Checking Your DB2 for z/OS Systems by Haakon Roberts (IBM),
February 2004
- Database Design for Large Partioned/Partioning Tables - Best Pratices by
Craig Friske (IBM SVL), February 2004
- DB2 for z/OS 7 e-Business User Experiences by Robert Perih (Citigroup),
August 2003
- DB2 for z/OS Experiences using Hiperpools and Dataspace Bufferpools by
John Campbell (IBM), August 2003
- DB2 for z/OS Version 8: Point and Counterpoint by William Favero (IBM)
and Sandy Smith (Hewitt), August 2003
- Achieving peak performance with PeopleSoft online applications on DB2 for
z/OS by Venkat Srinivasan (Hewitt), August 2003
- A DB2 Performance Tuning Roadmap by Craig Mulins (BMC), February 2003
- DB2 for z/OS: Virtual Management - Before and After zSeries by John
Campbell (IBM), February 2003
- Using WLM with DB2 for z/OS by Hugh Smith (IBM SVL), February 2003
Regards,
DB2usa.
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