Most of the top DB2 experts have their own blogs. These blogs can help you keep up on what’s happening with DB2 and the DB2 community. Do you have a favorite DB2 for z/OS blog? Well, if you're reading this, then I would hope I make it into your top blogger list -- and there is a healthy list of excellent DB2 blogs out there:
Planet DB2 (DB2 Blog Aggregator)
Getting the Most out of DB2 for z/OS (Willie Favero)
DB2 Portal (Craig Mullins)
Native XML Database (Matthias Nicola)
DB2 News & Tips (Fred Sobotka)
IT, Life, DB2, pureXML, House Construction (Henrik Loeser)
SAP on DB2 for z/OS (Omer Brandeis)
Thoughts on DB2 (Triton)
Just DB2 Chatter (Jan Koblenzer)
DB2 Performance (Sameer Kumar)
Juice DB (Rav Ahuja)
Database Diary (Conor O’Mahony)
The Fillmore Group Blog (Kim May & Frank Fillmore)
MHC Inc (Martin Hubel)
DB2utor (Troy Coleman)
If I had to pick a favorite from this lengthy list, I'd go with Planet DB2, because it offers the deepest and most frequently updated list of active DB2 blogs.
And, honestly, DB2utor is another of my favorite blogs. One thing I like about this blog is its search capability. I've spent many hours researching and testing features. Some of these features I use only occasionally in the real world, so I can't always immediately recall every command I should issue or every function I should perform. Fortunately, when that happens, I can just search on the blog name (DB2utor) and a database term (locking) and quickly retrieve what I'm looking for -- e.g., "DB2utor locking."
Anyway, if you didn't find your favorite DB2 blog on this list, please let me know in Comments.
Thanks so much for reading this blog. See you in 2012.
It would be great if all of these blogs (including yourself :)) move to Google Plus. Considering what google plus has done for photographers and tech geeks this would be the best platform for promoting DB2.
-- Peter
Posted by: Peter | December 21, 2011 at 04:12 PM
Hi Peter,
Well I have to say I'm late to the G+ party. I'm not sure what it has done for photographers and tech geeks. I did spend a little time last night looking at it. I'm going to do a blog post on it and see what others have to say. Thanks for the post.
Posted by: Troy Coleman | December 31, 2011 at 02:46 PM
Troy, did you find anything of interest in Google+ to support blogging? All I found was Blog under the search choices.. appears it only runs against pages that have something to do with your search argument.
Posted by: Willie | January 10, 2012 at 03:13 PM
Hello Troy and Willie - G+ lets you write a whole blog post on to the "status box" (Share what's new). If you add people with similar interests to a circle and share the post with them, (you can make it public if you want too), they will be able to commment on your post exactly like how it would happen on a blog. Why don't you guys give it a try !
- Peter
Posted by: Peter | January 10, 2012 at 03:34 PM
Willie and Peter, I have not found much under G+ that lets you report on how many people have read your blog. I'm not sure if G+ has this concept. But yes you could post something and see if people comment on it just as they would comment on your posting in Facebook.
Posted by: Troy Coleman | January 11, 2012 at 06:44 PM