(Ember Crooks) DB2’s automated maintenance does not currently allow us to automate inplace reorgs. Inplace reorgs are more online than other reorgs, and in my experience are heavily used.

(Christopher Bienko, Marina Greenstein, Stephen E Holt and Richard T Phillips) Cloudant represents a strategic acquisition by IBM that extends the company’s Big Data and Analytics portfolio to include a fully managed, NoSQL cloud service.

(Robert Ferin) IBM Datacap 9.0 provides ruleset configuration panels, which are used at application design time in FastDoc and Datacap Studio, allowing easy ruleset configuration by providing a UI that prompts the user for configuration settings and then creates the appropriate ruleset XML. Addition

(Willie Favero) Sometimes receiving an extra cup of coffee, a second handful of M&M’s, a few more minutes of sleep, or a little extra time to get to your destination is a good thing.

(Troy L Coleman) With early DB2 releases, many customers would restrict dynamic SQL on a production online transaction processing system (OLTP). DBAs had no way to lock in the access path to avoid unexpected performance problems that could occur due to ad hoc queries impacting business critical appl

(Bobby Woolf and Santiago Ortega) Although largely self-contained, you still need to connect IBM PureApplication System to your data center network so that your external users can connect to, manage, and deploy workloads onto the system, as well as connect to those workloads and use applications run

(Craig S. Mullins) NULLs are one of the more controversial things that a DB2 professional has to deal with. And I do mean HAS to deal with.

(Ember Crooks) The DB2 Administrative SQL Cookbook is a series of blog entries that are short. Each focuses on one or a few SQL statements that may be useful when administering DB2 databases.

(Lockwood Lyon) Big Data usually implies just that: a lot of data. You must allocate hardware, software, and storage media for the data. Include a contingency for storing data until it can be moved to the EDW in case there are delays due to hardware slowdowns. Also determine how these new assets and

(Jack Vamvas) Db2pd is one of my favourite DB2 troubleshooting tools. I use these commands on a daily basis.