(Sridhar B Gajaparthasarathy) This article shows you how to use a script to administer IBM Integration Bus V9 and WebSphere Message Broker V8 users who access broker resources through a web browser.

(Ember Crooks) Working with BLU has been a glorious learning experience for me. I say that both truly with excitement and with frustration. Whenever I have a DBA-character building experience, I’m bound to share it with my readers.

(Craig S. Mullins) One of the biggest challenges facing today’s organizations is ensuring the right information reaches the right people so data is used appropriately and accurately. In the age of Big Data and analytics, there is even more data being churned out more frequently than ever before.

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How to Force Query to use IXSCAN over a TBSCAN Solution:

(Serge Bourbonnais, Jiong Fan, Michael Fitzpatrick, Wei He and Xiang Wei Zhou) Any business interruption is a potential loss of revenue. Achieving business continuity involves a tradeoff between the cost of an outage or data loss with the investment required for achieving the recovery point objectiv

(Jack Vamvas) How can I get the IP address of connections to a DB2 server? When connected to a DB2 server and execute db2 list applications, a list of connections are listed.

(Robert Ferin) The DDK contains additional IBM Datacap 9.0 sample applications. These samples show various ways to capture and validate documents, providing examples of application structure and use of various actions that may be useful in your applications.

(Robert Catterall) Not long ago, an IBM colleague of mine who is a WebSphere Application Server (WAS) for z/OS specialist sent to me and to a few other IBMers (including some of our CICS and DB2 for z/OS developers) some information about an application scenario, and asked for our ideas and feedback

(Lockwood Lyon) Another essential task performed by the DBAs is preparing an environment for the application developers to perform load testing. This environment contains all tables, and if possible contains production-like data and data volumes.

(Julian Stuhler) As a follow-up to my “DB2 10 upgrade – 23 Things to think about now” blog I’ve created a version for DB2 11. Once again this is intended for organisations who are planning an upgrade to DB2 11 and would like some guidance on what needs to be done prior to the upgrade.