(Willie Favero) Magic, science, perseverance, knowledge, patience, luck, skill, and awareness. All important attributes needed (required), in my opinion, for the individual responsible for buffer pool setup and tuning. Relying on just one may not get the job done, or at least not as well as you w

(Vamshidhar Srikantapuram) We recently came across an interesting issue with one of our clients. Our client was trying to setup Solr 4.7.2 on WAS 8.x and was unsuccessful in starting up the Solr application. When they contacted us with the issue, the first thing we looked at was the AppServer logs.

(Gabriel Nieves) The latest changes to the entry control block (ECB) resource monitor on IBM z/Transaction Processing Facility (z/TPF) give the users more flexibility to define and retrieve resource usages in the system. This article gives an introduction to the enhancements in APAR PJ40979. It also

(Henrik Loeser) My last two blog entries were about getting started with Python on IBM Bluemix and how to use a custom domain with my Bluemix weather application. Today I am going to show how I added Cloudant and couchDB to my application, both locally and on Bluemix.

(Michael Sansoterra) In “Impersonate Your Neighbor Using DB2 for i,” I outlined how to use the SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION SQL statement to override the user profile of the current thread or, in many cases, the current job. The benefits of doing this include providing temporary authorization to resour

(Jeff Berger) IBM DB2 buffer pools are still a key resource for ensuring good performance. This has become increasingly important as the difference between processor speed and disk response time for a random access I/O widens in each new generation of processor.

(Ian Bjorhovde) When the term high availability is brought up, most of the DBAs that I know reflexively think of technical solutions that we have implemented to help keep a system or database available for users – things like pureScale (“data sharing” for you mainframe DBAs), HADR and cluster manage

(David Birmingham) The latest wave of big data requirements sees raw data streaming at high velocity and volume to various ports of call. Data is integrated on the fly at a breathless pace. Most back-end processing aficionados are well aware of the batch-style, load-and-query model.

(Amit Kumar Raja) IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Change Data Capture (CDC) offers direct integration with InfoSphere DataStage by using a transaction stage job. In this article, follow the step-by-step process that outlines all the required tasks to prepare the DataStage environment to enabl

(Michael Sansoterra) The dump truck of database features driven by IBM is delivering yet again, unloading a full load of great enhancements for the beloved DB2 for i RDBMS. In addition to the new features included in the various IBM i 7.1 technology refresh (TR) releases, 7.2 has even more security,