(Dave Beulke) Thank you for all the comments on the mainframe and millennials blog entries from the previous weeks found here, here, and here. Validation of millennials’ struggles inspired this hopefully helpful blog.

(Mike Vizard) Rather than having to switch database platforms to drive the convergence of transaction processing and analytics, IBM is making the case for a new faster version of DB2 with Blu Acceleration that not only runs some queries a thousand times faster, but also now fully supports SAP applic

(Dave Kelsey and Nic Townsend) This is the fifth article in a series that describes how to create process applications for master data by using IBM Business Process Manager (BPM). This series refers to the InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Application Toolkit and IBM BPM 8.0.1, both of which a

(Craig S. Mullins) A couple of years ago I posted a set of DBA Rules of Thumb (ROT) here on the blog. Over time, though, I have thought more about it and collected additional ROTs that I’d like to share with you today.

(Samantha Callich-Fortner) In IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Intelligent Management features automatically protect against server overload, and the autonomic request flow manager (ARFM) lets you preferentially throttle traffic to ensure mission-critical applications continue to

(Henrik Loeser) Over the past days I ran into an interesting database problem. It boils down to resource management and database locks. One of my sons is an avid reader and thus we have an ongoing flow of hardcopy and electronic books, most of them provided by the local public library (THANK YOU!).

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How to Find JAVA Driver Name and Version Solution:

(Ember Crooks) I have been playing a fair amount lately with clustering indexes and have been rehashing my views on reorging tables on an index. This is still a work in progress, but thought I’d share some details and see if others out there have any thoughts to share with me and others on it.

(Cassandra Desens) BLU Acceleration is a pretty darn exciting advancement in database technology. As a marketing professional, I can tell you why it’s cool..

(Pallavi Priyadarshini, Iti Rawat, Rajendra Kamath and Shilu Mathai) DB2 Connect in DB2 Cancun Release 10.5.0.4 includes many rich features. Get a high-level overview of the key features across the various client drivers for DB2, including Java driver and non-Java drivers (CLI and .NET).