Tag: IBM Db2 databases

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of provisioning and managing your computing infrastructure using code, rather than manual processes and settings. Popular IaC tools, services, and platforms include Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, and Pulumi, each offering unique features to automate and manage infrastructure across various cloud environments. In this post, we demonstrate how Terraform, one of our partner products, can be used to deploy and manage RDS for Db2 instance.

Amazon RDS for Db2 is the latest addition to the Amazon RDS family of database engines. When it comes to selecting the relational database to migrate data from Db2 for z/OS, RDS for Db2 provides the best compatibility among other relational database management systems (RDBMSs) thereby minimizing the migration effort and timelines. In this post, we outline the migration methodology for converting schema and data from Db2 on z/OS to RDS for Db2.

Many AWS customers run mission-critical workloads using the IBM Db2 database platform. Typically, these workloads require a highly available configuration to make sure that the database is available in the event of a node or site failure. The traditional IBM method to achieve high availability is to use shared storage and virtual IP addresses, which […]