(Scott Hayes) 100% of our audience learned something! Based on his IDUG Phoenix Top 10 presentation, Scott presents a new way to think about and analyze DB2 LUW performance.

(Craig S. Mullins) Every now and then I get e-mail from readers of my blogs asking introductory/beginner questions about databases and DBMS. I cannot take the time to answer all of these e-mails in-depth, so I thought I blog a quick post with some good resources for folks.

(Lakshmi Priya) The final tutorial of this multi-part series shows how to create a WebSphere Portal V8.0-based hybrid portlet application by using IBM Worklight V6.0 that is installed on top of IBM Rational Application Developer V9.0. The portlet application that is created helps to download files f

(Dave Beulke) At the recent Insight and IDUG conferences IBM talked about its many new software products for modern corporation information management. These new products handle the constant flow of inexhaustible big data from new data resources like social data from Facebook, Twitter and other sou

(Michael Sansoterra) IBM i 7.1 Technology refresh 8 was released on June 6, 2014, and it has another group of small database enhancements worth reviewing. IBM i 7.2 users will find that they already have these features. This tip assumes that you have IBM i 7.2 or IBM i 7.1 with Database Group PTF Le

(Sundari Voruganti, Kathy Zeidenstein and Roopa Sivakumar) Major advantages of using Big SQL, the SQL interface to Hadoop data within InfoSphere BigInsights, are its enterprise-ready capability for speed, functionality, and security. This tutorial provides a brief overview of the built-in security c

(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

(Craig S. Mullins) Perhaps the single most important thing that can be done to assure optimal DB2 application performance is creating correct indexes for your tables based on the queries used by your applications.

(Paolo Bruni, Rafael Henrique Vedovatto Bindillati, James Kelly, Rick Long and Acacio Ricardo Gomes Pessoa) Over the last few years IMS and IMS tools have been modernizing the interfaces to IMS and the IMS tools to bring them more in line with the current interface designs. As the mainframe software

(Ember Crooks) This is the first in a series of blog entries talking about DB2 internals. I have no intimate knowledge from IBM of how DB2 works internally, just years of watching presentations about the internals and doing my best to understand what DB2 is doing to inform my actions and decisions a