(Leons Petrazickis) There’s an upcoming DB2 Chat with the Lab on Friday, November 19th:
Tag: IBM
Cover Story: Migrate from Oracle or Sybase to DB2 in Weeks
(Jeff Jones and Greg Thomas) This article gives steps and advice for a successful migration from either Oracle or Sybase ASE to DB2.
Auditing Presentation
(Rebecca Bond) While I was at the Information on Demand Conference, I received many questions regarding DB2 LUW Auditing. I suspect that companies who tried using native DB2 auditing prior to DB2 9.5 are not aware of the significant improvements and enhancements that are available in DB2 9.5 and DB
Restart IDENTITY Column when data is migrated to DB2
(Vikram Khatri) If a table is created with an IDENTITY column and you need to make sure that your identity column starts from the last max value that you load the data. IBM Data Movement Tool does this automatically but if you are not using the tool and want a way to sync up start value of the ident
Monitoring and tuning InfoSphere Master Data Management Server, Part 2: Monitor the DB2 layer and learn about different monitoring tools
(Jesse Chen, Yongli An and Adam Muise) This article series provides guidelines on how to effectively monitor and properly tune each layer of the infrastructure in IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server by focusing on an IBM “Blue stack.”
How long is long? Maximum size of an XML text node in DB2
(Henrik Loeser) I was recently asked about the maximum size of a single text node when stored in DB2 pureXML. Basically, when you create a table
Oracle Database is dramatically more complex to install than DB2 9.7
(Laura) In our last blog we reported that DB2 9.7 is streets ahead of Oracle Database 11gR2 in our recent ease of use study. Today we are sharing with you a more detailed look at the results from the first task – Installation.
Monitoring and tuning InfoSphere Master Data Management Server, Part 1: Set goals and tune each layer of the infrastructure
(Jesse Chen, Yongli An and Adam Muise) This article series provides guidelines on how to effectively monitor and properly tune each layer of the infrastructure in IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server by focusing on an IBM “Blue stack.” The blue stack includes MDM Server, WebSphere Applicatio
Ten Steps for Archiving Data in IBM DB2 on Mainframe Systems
Fueled by organic growth and evolving business policies and regulations that require data to be retained for a long period, the data growth curve grows steeper. Storing more and more data on production systems is a recipe for poor performance – no matter how much hardware is added or how much an app
Day 2 at IDUG EMEA
(Iqbal) Today was basically a DB2 pureScale day for me and many midrange folks. Matt Huras and Aamer Sachedina gave excellent presentations giving an overview of pureScale and a deep dive into cluster services and monitoring and a walk-through hardware and software failure and recovery scenarios.