(Samir Kapoor and Kaarel Truuvert) The db2look tool gives you a way to recreate the same access plan for your test environment that DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) is using for your production environment. Here are all the details for setting it up.

(Thomas Hampp and Alexander Lang) Learn how to configure and deploy a semantic search solution using WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition 8.2.2. This tutorial includes some pre-built text analysis steps, based on the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) SDK. Based

(James Niccolai) An update to Apache’s Derby database has been released, shoving the project into the limelight for the first time.

(Patrick Zeng and Liwen Yeow) In today’s world where businesses are serving customers from around the world on a 24×7 schedule, customers expect their computing systems to be 100% reliable. DB2 UDB has always been in the forefront of databases in providing such industrial strength reliability.

“This is excellent news for IBM customers who want to manage their mission-critical applications and make price/performance decisions incorporating the unique features of different hardware platforms to the optimal needs of enterprise applications,” said Zev Laderman, CEO of Aduva (pictured below ta

(Chris Eaton) There are two sets of configuration parameters in DB2, database manager configuration parameters and database configuration parameters. The database manager (or instance) config parms mostly affect the server processes and memory like the number of agent processes, amount of instance s

(Martin LaMonica) Once mired in a stagnant market, IBM’s Lotus division will use industry standards to loosen Microsoft’s grip on desktop software, according to the outgoing Lotus general manager.

(Chris Eaton) I thought I’d start looking at the various configuration parameters that exist in DB2 and try to provide a one stop shop for the key config parms that you need to know about. But before I get into the details, how would you like the some tuning advice from the people that build DB2 and

(Kameron Cole) First of all, we have to start saying “integration server” instead of “application server.” We’ve gotten so accustomed to saying “apps” and “app server” that we’ve lost the meaning. Of course, an application server serves applications. Applications were actually a “trend” at one t

(Alex Woodie) KCI Computing recently shipped a new release of CONTROL, a business intelligence tool that runs on the iSeries and uses Excel as its primary user interface. By pulling data from DB2/400 and other back-end data stores in real time, CONTROL enables analysts to use Excel to create up-to-t