Ellison: “IBM DB2 is good on mainframes, the best in the world. Oracle is good on everything else-x86 and all others. It’s too bad DB2 can’t run on modern machines.

IBM also intends to bring out a version of DB2 9 for its System z mainframe before year’s end, he added. DB2 9 Enterprise Edition, a full-blown version of the database, is priced from US$36,400 ...

Due to several software vulnerabilities, attackers can attack IBM Db2 and, in the worst case, completely compromise instances. To prevent this, admins should install the secure versions.

IBM released DB2 version 10 for z/OS in 2010. This release is for Linux, Unix and Windows systems, and has a different codebase and is maintained by different set of developers from the z/OS version.

Every column in a table has a name and a data type. The data type tells DB2 how much physical storage to set aside for the column and the form in which the data are stored. DB2 uses IBM SQL data types ...

IBM Spokesman Ari Fishkind called the DB2-centric chain of events that followed unique, in that they involved a power outage to an older IBM storage system. Fishkind said that no other customer ...