(Clair Ross) Question: I need to find out what DB2 LUW V9.5 processes are running on a Linux machine? Is there another way other than ‘ps –ef’ or ‘ps aux’ than grepping out the result set?

(Philip Nelson) Recently, I upgraded a fairly large system from DB2 V8.2 to 9.7, with one of the greatest expected benefits being the reduction in storage usage because of the compression (storage optimisation) feature.

(Willie Favero) Today’s blog post wasn’t written by me but rather was copied from a friend’s IBM developerWorks bog. Martin Packer, who is also a fellow IBMer, specializes in mainframe performance. He published a very nice post on his developerWorks blog today (November 27) covering a few new DFSORT

(Russell Butek and John Rasmussen) Requests for enterprise resources have expanded to encompass not only trusted organizational clients, but distant and unfamiliar ones. The success of SOA has resulted in the publication of enterprise applications as services to be discovered and processed in a dyna

(Radim Kolar) IBM Information Management released long awaited Fixpack for DB2 9.7 also known as Cobra. This fixpack comes with really impressive list of fixes. This list of fixes is not complete list of fixes included in fixpak.

(Henrik Loeser) In the past I had emphasized that LOBs and XML data are different in DB2, even though both are stored in the LONG tablespace if you wish so (LONG IN option during CREATE TABLE). XML data is buffered, i.e., pages with XML data are held in the bufferpool, LOBs require a direct fetch vi

(Sanjit Chakraborty) This tutorial is the fifth in a series of tutorials designed to help you become familiar with all the different aspects of IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) and help you get ready for the IDS Fundamentals Certification exam. This tutorial covers the use of SQL to manipulate data

(Willie Favero) I know this has taken months to publish. However, here is Part 2 in my RDS sort series. Hopefully Part 3 & 4 will make it a lot quicker.

(Rebecca Bond) There’s a New SECADM in Town. It’s a new day and there is a new database. Which means a new chance for me to set up security…..and this time….I’m taking control.

(Tom Alcott) Adding hardware doesn’t always improve failover and availablity for Web application requests. The first installment of The WebSphere Contrarian discusses why this is the case, as well as some possible alternatives.