(Thuan Bui and Erin A. Wilson) See how the staff at one fictional organization, the Great Outdoors Company, takes advantage of InfoSphere Optim integrated data management solutions for performance management.

(Willie Favero) As part of the December 2010 product documentation update, APAR PM26884 has been updated with the numbers for the PTFs that allow you to download the PDF version of the DB2 for z/OS Diagnosis Guide and Reference for DB2 9 and DB2 10.

(Dave Beulke) Last week I talked about the basics of evaluating DB2 for z/OS and LUW compression. DB2 compression saves a huge amount of disk storage space and improves performance by eliminating I/O within your system.

(Leons Petrazickis) When you drop and recreate a table, DB2 marks any views that query it inoperative. You will get the following error message if you try to query one of them:

(Troy Coleman) Last week we discussed the different types of scalar functions. Here I’ll share the specific differences between inline and non-inline scalar functions.

(Sonal Bhatt) An approach to presenting a ‘relative date’ to a report consumer within a prompt or set of prompts. Many organizations might need relative date activity such as the activity in the last 7 days, Month to date, Year to Date.

(Julian) Many DB2 experts have given excellent presentations on this important subject, and there are several good techniques you can use to reduce the elapsed time for high-volume concurrent INSERT operations.

(Willie Favero) I read APARs so you don’t have to.. pretty weird, right? This strange habit actually started back in 1978 just after the bank I worked for started to use SMP/E.

(Natasha Sharma and Vijaykumar Ladla) IBM WebSphere sMash server provides built-in security mechanisms. You can secure your applications in various ways by enabling security in configuration files. In this article, learn about different types of authentication, file-based and LDAP-based security, an

(Susan Visser) Join Sal Vella, (VP) and Jamie Watters (Senior Product Manager) as they give you an update on DB2. Specifically, what’s new since V9.7 GA .