(Dave Beulke) The recent partnership between IBM and Apple combines the expertise of the enterprise and user-friendly mobile application devices. The partnership takes advantage of the expertise of both companies along with leveraging the new IBM BLUMix Cloud infrastructure, the various software pl

(Yiying Zhang, Lydia Siu and Aslam Nomani) The IBM DB2 pureScale Feature for Advanced Enterprise Server Edition is designed for continuous availability and tolerance of both planned maintenance and unplanned accidental component failure.

(Martin Lansche and Keys Botzum) Security consists of more than just some firewalls at the edge of your network protecting you from the outside. It is a difficult and complex set of actions and procedures that strive to strengthen your systems as much as is appropriate. This article discusses many a

(Henrik Loeser) Since its first days as a database management system, DB2 has been been changed. It has been extended by new features to serve customer requirements and has been adapted to the state of the art in hardware and software technology.

(Jack Vamvas) Question: I’m attempting to complete a REORG on tables and indexes but don’t have enough disk space for the REORG activities? Is it possible to redirect a REORG ?

(Ember Crooks) A storage group is a layer of abstraction between the data in your database and disk. It is only used with Automatic Storage Tablespaces (AST). It allows us to group tablespaces together to live in similar places. Storage groups were first introduced in a roundabout way with automatic

(Willie Favero) I’m not sure if Octology is word or not… I can’t find it on Dictionary.com although it does show up in Wiktionary.org. I’m using it anyway to describe my Back to Buffer Pool Basics Series of 8 posts. From this post, you can get to any of the posts in the series. Hopefully I’v

(Rodrigo Ferreira, Marcos Rogério De Mello and Jullyana Fialho Pinheiro) In a few steps, create a simple web application for students to practice basic math skills, primarily multiplication operations.

(Troy Coleman) Pinpointing the cause of an application failure is one of the more challenging aspects of a developer’s job. Locking problems can be greatly reduced by designing applications that support checkpoint restart and provide the capability to tune commit frequency. Of course, applications f

(Jeff J. Li and Suraj R Patel) In this article, learn how the Hierarchical Data stage in IBM InfoSphere DataStage interacts with SoftLayer Object Storage by using the Representational State Transfer (REST) API. The REST step in the Hierarchical Data stage invokes REST web services with support for v