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 100 ...

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 ...

DB2: What’s in a Name? The name DB2, or IBM Database 2, was first given to the Database Management System or DBMS, in 1983 when IBM released DB2 on its MVS mainframe platform. For some years DB2, was ...

IBM is rolling out its latest mainframe, the z13, and the company is trying to reposition its warhorse computing system for the app economy and all of the transactions that go with it. The z13 is ...

Normally, for this column, I would write a technical article or something on leadership. However, Big data and the impact of analytics on large quantities of data is a trend that is here to stay. The ...