(Frank Ketelaars and Alex Lavrov) This tutorial shows you how to connect IBM InfoSphere Data Replication Change Data Capture (CDC) as a near real-time data source for InfoSphere Streams. Walk through several integration options for a ready-to-use and custom user exit, then explore the pros and cons

(Scott Hayes) 100% of our audience learned something! Our studio audience was filled with inspiration and gratitude for Melanie’s presentation! Watch our replay and you will see a complete cookbook for how to upgrade, what to watch out for, undocumented tricks that will speed up your upgrade, and ev

(Paul Van Run) Maybe you have played around with the new IBM® Bluemix platform and noticed the SQL Database service listed with the other database services such as IBM® Cloudant, MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. SQL Database provides an on-demand relational database for transactional workloads.

(Les King) Out in the field I meet with businesses daily to help demonstrate how they can leverage big data solutions to increase their bottom line. As I’m talking with clients one of the topics that continually comes up is what this will mean for their existing enterprise-class analytic infrastruct

(Dsve Beulke) Thanks for all the feedback from last week’s blog here on millennials and mainframe systems. This week I talk about what other attributes and ideas the millennials can get from the mainframe systems, their development, and the people who support the technology.

(Ember Crooks) Many DBAs who have been DBAs for a while have been bitten by executing an SQL script, not thoroughly checking the output, and finding later that one or more statements in the SQL script failed. I have certainly been guilty of this at times.

(Paul Titheridge) This article describes how IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 8.x handles poison JMS messages, looks at the behaviour of both the default messaging provider and the IBM WebSphere MQ messaging provider, and provides information on how the default behaviour can be changed.

(Susan Visser) If you’ve been watching social media sites today, you may have noticed a few things mentioned about a new DB2 10.5 release. There is one that went out today and it has a few names:

(Jack Vamvas) Question: I’m troubleshooting a DB2 server performance issue. How can I gather some general DB2 server and process information and send to a DB2 professional for problem resolution.

(Iqbal Goralwalla) I recently wrote about the new Shadow tables feature in the DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release” and how it is so relevant to customers I have been working with who need to report directly on their transactional DB2 systems (http://bit.ly/shadow_tables).