(Troy L Coleman) Last week IBM announced DB 12 for z/OS and its Oct. 21 general availability. Of course there’s a lot to dissect — and I’ll certainly be getting into specifics of DB2 12 features in the weeks and months ahead — but for now, here are some of my initial reactions.

(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something! Your cheese is moving! Someday, if not already, you may be asked to monitor the performance of IBM BigSQL. As you’ll learn in this replay, there are a few differences and many similarities to monitoring DB2 LUW. Nailah provided a fantastic comparison o

(Craig S. Mullins) A database application requires constant interaction between various disparate computing resources to operate efficiently and according to specifications. Realistically, the tuning of a database application can be broken down into three components: system tuning, database tuning,

(Henrik Loeser) Next week I am going to teach students database basics again. One of the topics will be primary keys and how they help enforcing uniqueness and identify each of the stored objects.

(Jim G Thorpe and Jim McGarrahan) The Dynamic Event Framework is a new event transport mechanism in IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) and IBM Business Monitor starting in version 8.5.5. This tutorial uses a simple Claims processing scenario to provide step-by-step instructions for creating and det

(Roman Kharkovski) Earlier this week I met with an IBM customer to help them with the cost analysis for the new project that required an application server runtime for the 3rd party COTS application. This application is certified by the vendor to run on WebSphere Application Server and on JBoss EAP.

(Dave Beulke) Every mainframe DB2 shop should investigate reducing their costs by offloading workload to an IDAA appliance. By investing in an IDAA appliance and sending your SQL workloads to it, you can speed up your processing without making any application changes.

(Troy L Coleman) Following up on last week’s post on real memory and in-memory index optimization, here’s a little more about the upcoming DB2 12. The new release will support in-memory tables that use in-memory contiguous buffer pools.

(Craig S. Mullins) When last we looked in on our Taoist DBA and his young mentor they were dealing with performance issues. They were dealing with performance issues as they arose… reactively. The last question the intern had asked his mentor was a good one: “So is there more that I need to know a

As organizations develop next-generation applications for the digital era, many are using cognitive computing ushered in by IBM Watson technology. To make the most of these next-generation applications, you need a next-generation database that must handle a massive volume of data while delivering hi