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(Laura) Sometimes it is necessary for organisations to stay on older, unsupported database versions. There are many reasons why an organisation may choose or be forced to stay on an out of support version of DB2:

(Willie Favero) Am I the only one who thinks of Roy Rogers every time I write the work “trigger”?

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(Bob Balfe) IBM Mobile Web Push extends WebSphere Commerce with the ability to send customized and targeted marketing offers to your mobile web pages. In this article, you will quickly integrate Mobile Web Push with WebSphere Commerce, then build an inbox of offers that can be triggered by specified

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(Stephen Holt and Steve Raspudic) This article demonstrates how to use a cloud provider to create a reliable tie-breaking method to avoid a split brain scenario. The procedure is for two node clusters running IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (LUW) and the integrated high availability (HA) infrast

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