Every Innovation Starts With a Real Problem

Every Innovation Starts With a Real Problem

The market has consolidated a somewhat romanticized view of innovation in technology: a team driven by a great idea, searching for where to apply it. In mission-critical operations, the logic works the other way around. The problem comes first; engineering comes as...
Is Your Db2 Getting Slower — or Do You Just Not Know It Yet?

Is Your Db2 Getting Slower — or Do You Just Not Know It Yet?

On the mainframe, performance degradation does not usually begin with an obvious failure. It tends to emerge gradually: more pages being read, increased fragmentation, less efficient indexes, and maintenance operations taking longer and longer. By the time the impact...