BMC has upgraded 23 of its mainframe service management applications so that they will support version 10 DB2 databases running on System z9 and z10 mainframe servers, noted Robin Reddick, BMC ...

"DB2 9 Viper for z/OS marks a new era in mainframe information management that will help drive business insight, cost savings and business resiliency," said Bernie Spang, director data servers, IBM.

BMC has upgraded 23 of its mainframe service management applications so that they will support version 10 DB2 databases running on System z9 and z10 mainframe servers, noted Robin Reddick, BMC ...

The new Guardium for Mainframes product, a combination appliance and software, provides visibility into all DB2 activity, including who's reading what on the database.

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.

Seven months after announcing CA Mainframe Chorus, a graphical interface that simplifies mainframe management, CA Technologies said a version of the interface for IBM DB2 databases is now available.

In time for the upcoming 40th anniversary of the mainframe, IBM on Thursday plans to unveil what it calls the most significant release ever of its DB2 database for mainframes, featuring more than ...

BMC Software has already rolled out SmartDBA tools for IBM's DB2 Universal Database, as well as for databases from Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Sybase Inc.