(Lockwood Lyon) Many applications have Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that promise quick turnaround or acceptable on-line response time. Lengthened transaction elapsed times are a cause for concern. Here are several methods the database administrator can use to alleviate these issues.

(Bryan Boyd, Joel Gauci, Michael P Robertson, Nguyen Van Duy, Rahul Gupta, Vasfi Gucer and Vladimir Kislicins) Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is a messaging protocol designed for the Internet of Things (IoT). It is lightweight enough to be supported by the smallest devices, yet robust en

(Craig S. Mullins) There have been some nice data validation improvements made to the IBM DSN1COPY utility in DB2 11 for z/OS. I suppose I should first explain what the DSN1COPY utility is before I talk about how it has been improved, so…

(Manjunath B. Subramanian) Customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives continue to be a high priority for many organizations as they try to innovate and develop new ways to deliver a superior customer experience.

(Ember Crooks) If you’re mourning the loss of “RESET MONITOR ALL”, there are a number of ways you can address that. Ideally, you’d use this approach:

(John Rasmussen) Part 8 of this multi-part series describes WebSphere DataPower Appliance support for the OAuth 2.0 implicit grant type. It covers configuration for both the authorization server and the enforcement point.

(James Gill) Every site has this challenge and we all find different ways around the problem: How can I generate a list of DB2 subsystems defined to my current LPAR and whether they are active or not?

(Adam Gartenberg) If you’d like to learn more about Watson Analytics, head on over here at 12pm ET on December 4th for a live video chat with big data experts to learn more about what led to its development and how it’s being used in the real world.

(Roman Kharkovski) Yesterday IBM announced the availability of the dedicated BlueMix PaaS. Why would you care? Some companies do not feel comfortable running in a fully shared public environment and dedicated PaaS running on IBM SoftLayer is as close to the on-premise as it gets, but arguably remove

(Suresh Sane) Though the complexity of SQL queries has grown significantly, recent enhancements provide the opportunity for query optimization. The first installment of this series focuses on the challenges of increasingly complex SQL in relational databases.