(Dave Beulke) Another set of great INSIGHT announcements that were somewhat drowned out by all the Watson hoopla were all the enhancements that are happening with DB2 pureScale. For those unfamiliar with DB2 pureScale, it is the multi-node cluster configuration providing the industry’s best scalabil

(Sajan Kuttappa SWG) If someone wanted more proof that Informix is technologically a step ahead of competitors, IBM provided evidence in China! Even the hardest cynic would find it difficult to rebuff the fact that the adoption of a locally innovated version of the Informix database for the burgeoni

(Henrik Loeser) Did you know that there are about 80 (eight-zero) administrative views in the SYSIBMADM schema in DB2 that are ready for use? I have used several of them and also looked into the documentation, but 80 is quite a lot. (Almost) All of them are documented in the DB2 Knowledge Center in

In a development project, dependencies between different requirements, as well as requirements and software artifacts, can be difficult to track and assess their impact due to the large number of them.

(Ember Crooks) DB2 10.1 introduced a new feature commonly called RCAC (Row and Column Access Control) or FGAC(Fine-Grained Access Control). This is a bit less labor intensive to support than LBAC (Label Based Access Control), and solves some of the problems with LBAC. It allows a finer level of acce

IBM today announced i2 COPLINK Everywhere, a MobileFirst application that securely delivers access to police data to officers, analysts, and commanders when they are in the field.

(Frank Fillmore) The trip to Prague, CZ last week for the International DB2 Users Group meeting was fabulous. The city certainly has changed since I’ve been there – all for the better. It seems more cosmopolitan, the people seem younger, more vibrant than I remember from 2004.

(Ember Crooks) I’m always keeping an eye on Twitter to catch interesting bits of news, and that includes watching cross platform information. I find it fascinating to compare DB2 to other RDMBSes, and saw a great article from Use the Index, Luke (fabulous name!) – Seven Surprising Findings About DB2

(Henrik Loeser) This morning I took some time to take a look at dashDB, a new IBM DWaaS (Data Warehouse as a Service) offering. When you go to the dashDB website, you are offered two choices: Use the dashDB service available on IBM Bluemix or use a Cloudant account to add a warehouse to your JSON da

(Matthias Tschaffler, Harald Duvenbeck and Heike Schmidt) Learn the details about the installation and configuration of the IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS Extended Insight feature in an SAP environment running on DB2 z/OS. This tutorial includes troubleshooting advice.