(Jayanta Ranjan Das) The IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation mobile application framework provides integration functionality through its adapter mechanism. MobileFirst adapters are components that are deployed to the server on the MobileFirst platform to access enterprise services.

(Jack Vamvas) This DB2 Security Policy sample is a basis for applying DB2 security good practise and regular audits. A DB2 environment is characterised by various developers(internal), administrators (internal) and third party access (external). The DB2 security policy should reflect these differe

(Henrik Loeser) In my previous entry I wrote about how I created an encrypted database. Today, I am showing you how I rotated one of the keys used for the DB2 native encryption.

(Jack Vamvas) There are multiple methods of checking the DB2 instance status. The method is usually dependant on the requirements.

(Whei-Jen Chen, Nisanti Mohanraj, Hassi Norlen, Leif Pedersen, Patrick Titzler, Tom Toomire and John Vonau) This IBM Redbooks publication will help you install, configure, and use IBM InfoSphere Optim Workload Replay (InfoSphere Workload Replay), a web-based tool that lets you capture real productio

(martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Cristian provided valuable tips and insight into distributed configuration, DBAT, and many other topics.

(Henrik Loeser) Built-in data encryption is a newly available DB2 feature as of today (see this updated fixpack summary page for fixpack 5). Here is a short report on how I tried and succeeded in setting it up and encrypting a new DB2 database on my Linux box. What I did is more or less to follow th

(Ashok Iyengar) Learn how to deploy WebSphere Cast Iron Appliance as a software pattern on PureApplication System. Instead of setting up the Cast Iron hardware appliance, you can upload a hypervisor image to PureApplication System to instantiate a pattern of the Cast Iron virtual image.

(Kelly Schlamb) Today, IBM has announced a set of new add-on offerings for DB2, which includes the IBM DB2 Performance Management Offering, IBM DB2 BLU Acceleration In-Memory Offering, IBM DB2 Encryption Offering, and the IBM DB2 Business Application Continuity Offering. More details on these offeri

(Pavan Kristipati) In a DB2 DPF (Database Partitioning Feature) database, the choice of the right distribution keys is an important decision that DBAs have to make. An incorrect distribution key (also called hash key) could skew the data distribution for one or more tables between the database parti