(Dino Quintero, Esteban Arias Navarro, Pablo Barquero Garro, Rodrigo Ceron Ferreira de Castro, Luis Carlos Cruz Huertas, Peng Jiang, Franz Friedrich Liebinger Portela, Peter McCullagh, Ichsan Mulia Permata, Joanna Wong and John Wright) This IBM Redbooks publication demonstrates and documents how to

(Craig S. Mullins) Last week I attended, and spoke at, the annual North American IDUG DB2 Tech Conference in Philadelphia, PA. As usual, the event was busy and chock full of useful and interesting DB2 information.

Number 9 in our Top 10 DB2 Support Nightmares series. This month we take a look at what happens when organisations are not able to keep up to date with the latest DB2 technology.

(Kent Milligan) The good news in the IBM i world is that more and more applications and tools are using modern, industry-standard interfaces such as ODBC, ADO.NET, and JDBC to access DB2 for i databases.

(Henrik Loeser) Last week, members of the German union for train operators/engineers were on strike and only a fraction of trains were operating. I had to go to Zurich, Switzerland, but most of the trains on my usual route were out of service. That’s when I had my DB2 pureScale or DB2 Parallel Syspl

(Pas Apicella) I decided to test out the Auto Scale service in IBM Bluemix following this example which shows how to also use the Blazemeter service to Load test the application to simulate extra memory requirement on the application.

(Liviu Rodean and Justin L. Harrison) Choosing an optimal application deployment topology for WebSphere MQ depends on many factors. They include technical requirements, such as needed functions, performance requirements, and application availability requirements, and non-technical constraints, such

(Michael Sansoterra) Pipes are a fantastic invention as they are useful for conveying a substance in an efficient and well directed manner.

(Rafael Victoria-Pereira) It’s an undeniable fact that the native I/O operations RPG provides act as a filter between the programmer and the database, which doesn’t exist in any other language. In most languages, there’s no native set of database-related instructions, which means that the data acces

(Guy Lohman) As the cost of DRAM continues to decrease according to Moore’s Law (which might more accurately be dubbed “Moore’s Observation”), and thus the volume of DRAM available on today’s systems increases, so-called in-memory databases have become all the rage.