(Lockwood Lyon) For the DBA specialist, more complex assignments are in order. Management will typically assign specialist tasks such as systems performance tuning or software migration to the DBA best equipped to handle it, or to one wishing to improve their skills with their more knowledgeable tea

(Troy L Coleman) Several months ago I wrote about modern storage and the impact on DB2 performance. That post received two comments. The first recommended IBM’s Easy Tier technology, which is a tool that automatically migrates frequently accessed data from magnetic media to solid-state drives (SSDs)

(Willie Favero) If you are licensed for DB2, it’s time to get your updated copy of the DB2 11 for z/OS Diagnostics Guide and Reference (LY37-3222-02). As in the past, this update is only available via a PTF.

(Lockwood Lyon) Beginning with Accounting Short Report, the DBA scans entries for applications and looks for current and potential performance issues. These might include high CPU usage, long elapsed times, high number of SQL statement issued, or a high number of I/Os.

(Venkata Gadepalli, Rajeev Gandhi, Addison Goering, Bertrand Portier, Stanley Shieh, Sung-Ik Son and Hendrik Van Run) This IBM Redbooks publication will describe and demonstrate common, prescriptive scenarios for setting up disaster recovery for common workloads using WebSphere Application Server, D

(Troy L Coleman) Sometime in your career as a DB2 systems programmer, you may be asked to develop a disaster recovery plan for DB2. Of course your recovery plan will have to fit in with the overall DR plan for the data center.

(Marc Altshuller) Our Watson technology has clearly captured the public’s imagination. But the question plenty of people have had is, “What can its cognitive computing powers do for you and me in our everyday lives?”

(John Iczkovits) Over the past several years, autonomic statistics has been a much-discussed feature of DB2 10 and 11. The vast majority of customers we talk with are very excited about this feature because it solves the often-asked question: Why can’t DB2 be smart enough to automatically execute RU

(Kirti Apte, Qi Liu, Shu Chao Wan and Yue Wang) IBM PureApplication System 2.0 introduces a new style of virtual system patterns with many enhancements and improved lifecycle management functionality. This tutorial gives you the details.

(Jack Vamvas) To view the linux swap space and usage ,use one of these commands