(Andon Salvarinov, Howard Borenstein, Victoria O. Odeyemi, Marco Deluca, Kevin Yu and Ali Asghar) In Part 1 of this series, you learn about caching implementations of a CDN network on a WebSphere Commerce Server (WCS), caching strategy, system operations, and code design and implementation with resp

(Jack Vamvas) Question: How do I prepare a database audit? I need to review regularly database security and configurations.

(Willie Favero) So, what do you have planned for the week of October 26, 2014? What ever it is, I hope it also includes being at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV for the Insight 2014 (formally know as IOD or Information on Demand Conference (formally know as the DB2 Tech Conference and the IMS Tec

(Radha Gowda) When faced with change, do you share Dilbert’s frustration (take a look at this Dilbert comic and you’ll see what we mean)? Wait… don’t be fecklessly hopeless yet! We understand that keeping up with competition and customer expectations in this constantly changing global economy requ

(Craig S. Mullins) Applications that access databases are only as good as the performance they achieve. And every user wants their software to run as fast as possible. As such, performance tuning and management is one of the biggest demands on the DBA’s time. When asked what is the single most impor

(Dave Beulke) DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release” was recently released as DB2 LUW Version 10.5 Fix Pak 4. As I wrote about last week, IBM has put a number of impressive features in this new update.

(Ember Crooks) There are a number of situations in which a DBA may need to deterimine when data in a table is being inserted or changed. The most obvious tool for tracking this may be using the db2 auditing facility. If you haven’t looked at audit for a while, it has been significantly improved in m

(Nathan Skalsky) In today’s complex environments, where data is spread across numerous homogeneous and heterogeneous databases, simplification is a necessity. Three-part naming offers that simplification for database connectivity by allowing skilled data architects, programmers, and system administr

(Indi Singh) Mobile usage is central to the daily lives of many people in today’s world. This growth of workload through mobile devices requires a strong backend in any IT system and CICS Transaction Server is that strong backend. CICS Transaction Server and IBM Worklight can easily help you bring y

(Henrik Loeser) What may sound like sore throat, “encrlib/encropts”, in reality is a really useful combination of new configuration parameters for DB2 in the Cancun release.