(Leons Petrazickis) It’s incredibly useful to have a local installation of DB2 on your Mac workstation for development and test purposes. I have a local installation to develop DB2-backed Ruby on Rails applications.

(Dino Quintero, Yukiko Itaya, Speitim Velic and Adriana Melges Quintanilha Weingart) BLU Acceleration is a new technology that has been developed by IBM and integrated directly into the IBM DB2 engine. BLU Acceleration is a new storage engine along with integrated run time (directly into the core DB

(James Gill) When working with a customer a couple of years ago, we observed what appeared to be an odd situation, where we were well short of the DDF CONDBAT limit, but new connections to DB2 for z/OS were failing. What could be causing this?

(Craig S. Mullins) There are three basic types of built-in functions available to DB2 users:

(Aslam Nomani, Gopi Varadarajulu, Jimmy Stamkos and Ronen Grosman) This tutorial is intended to show users how they can deploy DB2 pureScale on AIX using Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet. The step-by-step guide will provide details of a sample deployment that could be repli

(Willie Favero) I was attempting to move away from posting about fixes to issues in DB2 for z/OS. It felt like I was doing it way to often, almost like a easy why out of dreaming up my own content.

(Ian Bjorhovde) A few weeks ago, Ember posted a tweet mentioning that being able to see a histogram showing frequency of transaction log archive activity would be helpful. I had already done some work in this area by parsing the diagnostic log file (db2diag.log) for log archive messages, but I thoug

(Bhadri Madapusi) IBM PureApplication System 2.0 supports a new kind of storage volume called block storage. Unlike storage support in previous versions, block storage decouples storage from the lifecycle of the workload encapsulated in the patterns.

(Troy L Coleman) The recent IDUG NA 2015 conference was, in my opinion, the best IDUG event in years. Attendance was way up, and you could feel the energy and excitement during the sessions. Maybe best moment came out of the opening session.

(Matthias Nicola) Encapsulating database operations in stored procedures has a variety of potential benefits. For example, stored procedures allow you to code more complex data manipulation logic than what can be done with an individual SQL statement.