IBM updated its Db2 Genius Hub on May 5th with new support for Google Vertex AI and Intel Gaudi, on top of existing integrations with Amazon Bedrock and watsonx, plus a newly added Microsoft Azure AI Foundry. The pitch is what IBM calls "Level 3 automation" — AI agents that can propose and execute database operations on a DBA's behalf, with user approval. 43% of Db2 customers are banks. The Register covered it.

The pitch comes with a quote from Sanjeev Mohan, a former Gartner analyst now working as an independent advisor, given directly to IBM: DBAs should be "upskilled," sitting in rooms with "business decision makers," while Genius Hub handles the "nitty gritty, nuanced, heavy lifting of the database."

The DBA, in his first appearance on the panel, takes the analyst quote apart sentence by sentence. The Legacy Sysadmin places the IB ...