(Willie Favero) It’s not really my responsibility to update the world, but I think it is. Over the years I have given numerous presentations and web casts describing the virtues of universal table spaces.

(José De Jesús) IBM PureApplication systems introduce out-of-the-box capabilities that improve the way you create and deliver cloud solutions by simplifying the creation and reuse of applications and topologies.

(Willie Favero) Part 4 will discuss what’s next for accelerator-only tables along with listing some resources and reference materials that could be of interest.

(Craig S. Mullins) Today is July 1, 2015 – mid way through the year and the beginning a fresh, new month. With that in mind, I’m kicking off a new series of blog posts here on the various methods of influencing the DB2 Optimizer’s access path decisions.

(Ember Crooks) DB2 doesn’t have any defaults for filesystems because that is an OS-level thing. However, there are a few sanity checks and some recommeded separation when installing DB2 on Linux and UNIX operating systems. These are my best practices for installations, in general terms.

(Sergej Schuetz) This tutorial shows how to deploy the SAP side components of the InfoSphere Information Server Pack for SAP Applications 7.1. It covers the stage types and gives an overview of the relevant installation and security administration concepts.

(Henrik Loeser) In February I had fiddled with optimization profiles and REOPT working against the statement concentrator (part 2 is here). Today I wanted to give an interesting (hopefully) update.

(Willie Favero) In Part 3 of this 4 part series on accelerator-only tables, we’ll examine how accelerator-only tables can be put to use.

(Soloman Barghouthi) This four-part series of videos on IBM API Management together make up an end-to-end demonstration of the product that includes creating a restful API, testing it, publishing it in IBM API Management, and finally using the published API from a mobile application.

(Aish Khare) There are several times that you may have to restore from a production box to a beta or a QA environment as a different user. In that scenario, the restore commands will work just fine but you will receive authorization errors even when the id you used to restore has SYSADM.