(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How Load Utility consumes Huge Transactional Log Space Solution:

(Troy L Coleman) I’ve been doing some reading about NoSQL and how DB2 for z/OS will support it. This 2014 article examines the relationship between NoSQL and DB2 Java Scriipt Object Notation (JSON), and predicts that relational databases will begin to support JSON.

(Dean Brown, Carlos Gomes, Arthur Marais and Hennie Mynhardt) DB2 for z/OS helps lower the cost of managing data by automating administration, increasing storage efficiency, improving performance and simplifying the deployment of virtual appliances.

(Craig S. Mullins) Last week, in Part 1 of this series, we introduced the concept and the 5 high-level methods of influencing the DB2 optimizer’s access path choices. In today’s post, we will tackle the first approach, which is using standard, DB2-based methods.

(Willie Favero) It appears that in rare situations the DB2 log records could be written with invalid control information, not a good thing. A “ Red Alert” was put out today by the Red Alert subscription service for zSeries to warn customers of this serious situation.

(Tom Alcott) Since it’s introduction in 2012, the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile has rapidly evolved from a development desktop focused runtime to one that is increasingly being considered for production deployment. The

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How To Restrict Load Utility during Online Database Backup Solution: Define Work Class for Work Type

(Aish Khare) When upgrading DB2 fix packs, you need to make sure that all DB2 related processes have been shut down clean. In normal circumstances, you would:

(Willie Favero) Have you ever noticed that sometimes you make a statement, and no sooner is it made something comes along and negates it? Then you have to write a new blog post explaining why the first thing you said is no longer true.

(Joe Pluta) One of the big advantages of SQL is the fact that you can add columns to a table without worrying about the underlying access; columns that aren’t used are simply ignored in the SQL client programs. However, once you have added that column, the next trick is to populate the column correc