(Craig S. Mullins) Once again we join our intrepid duo – the seasoned DBA who is a practitioner of Tao and his young apprentice to whom he is trying to teach the way of DB2…

(Rackley Boren, Eric Ducos, Ge Gao, Thalia Hooker, Matthew Oatts, Paul Pacholski, Dennis Parrott and Claudio Tagliabue) IBM Coach Framework is a key component of the IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) platform that enables custom user interfaces to be easily embedded within business process solution

(Troy L Coleman) When a high number of inserts arrive in a non-clustered way at the end of a table space or table space partition, it’s known as a “journaling pattern.”

(Zhao Liu, Chong Feng, and Xiaohui Dong) IBM Application Performance Management (APM) is a new-generation monitoring solution for managing critical applications and the user experience in production. Until now, IBM PureApplication System supported only the IBM Tivoli Monitoring solution to monitor w

(Roman Kharkovski) IBM is hosting a series of free migration workshops in multiple cities across the world. Workshops are run by the competitive migration team and these are the best experts in the world to teach you about competitive migrations, as well as migrating your WebSphere applications from

(Robert Catterall) Some relatively recent developments have plenty of people asking, “How should my applications that connect to a z/OS server via a network link access DB2 for z/OS data?” In writing today I hope to provide some information that will be useful to folks pondering this question. I’ll

(Henrik Loeser) In Cloud Foundry and hence in IBM Bluemix so-called service brokers manage the provisioning and removal of service instances.

(Doug Anderson, Mike Biere, Linus Olson and Shawn Sullivan) IBM DB2 Query Management Facility for z/OS provides a zero-footprint, mobile-enabled, highly secure business analytics solution. IBM QMF V11.2.1 offers many significant new features and functions in keeping with the ongoing effort to broade

(Dave Beulke) Every mainframe DB2 shop should investigate reducing their costs by offloading workload to an IDAA appliance. By following the steps in this blog series, you can understand how to evaluate and justify an IDAA appliance for your existing environment workloads at no cost.

(Troy L Coleman) Storage technology keeps improving, which is obviously a good thing. However, DBAs may not always be up to date on these changes and how they impact application performance. (In our defense, we DBAs have a lot on our plates!) I started writing about this two years ago, and followed