(Robert Catterall) Exabyte. Now there’s a word you probably don’t use in everyday conversation. What is an exabyte? It’s one quintillion bytes. It’s one million terabytes. It’s one billion gigabytes. It’s one-sixteenth of the amount of byte-addressable server storage that can be accessed via a 6

(Li-Fang Lee and Kristi Peterson) Learn how to set up, verify, and troubleshoot an environment for peer recovery of transactions and messages using new high availability features in IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.0.x, including the high availability manager, transaction high

SAP AG and IBM announced their intention to test and make available a low-cost, high-performance analytics packaged solution designed to make it easier for clients to gather, store and analyze critical business information. The solution will integrate the new high-performance analytics capabilit

A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a component model that inter-relates the different functional units of an application, called services, through interfaces and contracts between these services. The interface is well defined in a neutral manner that is independent of the hardware platform, th

(Lester Knutsen) One of the best ways I’ve found to improve Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) performance is to monitor and improve the server disk layout and disk I/O. The best approach is to spread your database disk I/O across as many disks as possible so no single disk or partition becomes a bottlen

IBM DB2 Records Manager has been officially approved by the National Archives (TNA) standard for electronic recordkeeping systems for the United Kingdom government.

(Carla Sadtler, Simon Davitt, Rana Katikitala, Thu-Giang Pham, Craig Scott, David Titzler, Hari Venkateshaiah and Javier Voos) This redbook is intended to help customers through the process of identifying and resolving problems in WebSphere Application Server V6 on distributed platforms. It consists

(Chris Eaton) Now let’s look into locking snapshots. Before we get into the full script I want to cut and paste just a portion of the script here. There are 13 different lock modes that exist in DB2. Of course you are probably already aware of the common ones like Share and eXclusive, but there are

(Timothy Prickett Morgan) I haven’t been around the computer business as long as many of you, but I have been around long enough to see a lot of technologies come around on the guitar a time or two. As I have said in the past when talking about new technologies, show me a new idea in IT and I will […]

(Willie Favero) You would think that after presenting on DSNZPARM at so many conferences over the last few years that I would be on top of what’s changing. Not so. I am just like you all. I either accidentally stumble upon a parm change, someone from the lab tells me about it, or I find out some oth