(David Birmingham) At a recent proof-of-concept exercise, a vendor took its offering through the necessary paces to demonstrate its wares in meeting its client’s steep data processing needs. Hopes were quite high.

(Robert Catterall) With 2015 right around the corner, many people are probably starting to ponder their new year’s resolutions — the things they aim to do with a fresh set of twelve months. To the usual line-up of action items (“I will get in shape,” “I will read more,” “I will eat more fruits and

(Thomas Eunice) Despite the ongoing excitement around big data and the Apache Hadoop platform for managing and analyzing unstructured data, big data—just like all data—needs to be captured, stored, made secure, analyzed, and eventually archived and deleted.

(Matt Huras) Hi everyone. In the DB2 labs, we’ve been very busy over the past few months getting our Cancun release (aka 10.5 FP4) ready. Even though it’s mechanically a fixpack, this level of DB2 contains some very exciting new capabilities. Please join me as I take you through them.

(Richard Talbot and Kimberly Madia) After Hurricane Rita pummeled Louisiana and Texas in 2005, many people volunteered to help family, friends, and strangers fix their homes and recover property. Loaded with supplies, their intent was to travel into affected areas and stay until they could at least

(Dave Beulke) ‘Tis the holiday season, and I want to thank all my readers for their comments and encouragement. It has been a pleasure and honor working/hearing from all of you. I enjoy the challenges of data management too much, and my curious nature has me continuing to explore and write about a

(Barkana Emrah, Antonella Bertoletti, Stefano Bussaglia, Ernest Calalang, Sebastian Kapciak, Leonardo Olivera, Sergio Polastri and Fabio Silva) This IBM Redbooks publication uses the same practical solution and is an extension to Creating Integrated WebSphere Solutions using Application Lifecycle Ma

(Henrik Loeser) With security and privacy being one of the top topics for data processing in this year (and probably the next year too), I wanted my last post for this year to be spot on.

(Ember Crooks) I recently had a client with a table in an inconsistent state. Apparently a load failed, which is common enough, but they then tried to do a reorg, thinking that would solve it, so I first had to identify and force off connections causing a lock chain before solving the root problem.

(Kaushik Nagaraj) You will need the following to install the drivers and connect to the IBM UDB DB2 data source: