(Charek Chen and Noureddine Brahimi) Part 1 of this three-part article series guides you through best practices for developing tests using Rational Performance Tester and how to implement common scenarios for IBM WebSphere Commerce.

(Laura) Here is part three in our top ten DB2 support nightmares series. Here we look at why organisations can’t get by without a skilled DBA.

(Troy Coleman) I’ve never been a fan of setting columns to null, because this introduces complexities into the application code. I’m certainly not the only one who feels this way, either. Check out this well-written screed that explains in detail why NULL values in a database are a programmer’s nigh

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How to set custom,user friendly Client Application Name for Client Connection Solution:

(Scott Hayes) 100% of our audience learned something! During today’s show, Paul shared his excellent IDUG presentation in which he details terrific information about DB2 LUW locking! Learn about maxlocks, mon_lockwaits, mon_lw_thresh, mon_deadlock, mon_locktimeout, locktimeout, monreport, mon_get_pk

(Willie Favero) In today’s IBM announcements, it was announced that as of July 6, 2015 (13 months from now) the following three products…

(Craig S. Mullins) We’re all busy. Frequently it can seem like you just got in to the office and already it is past quitting time! There is so much to do and so little time to do it all. And we all work more than 40 hours a week… these are some of the common complaints of the busy DBA.

(Laura Knapp) As our systems have evolved, so, too, has our management focus. Beginning with managing a single system resource, to tightly integrated systems and their resources, to today’s focus on service management, this evolution over the past 50 years has built on fundamentals refined over this

(Troy Coleman) In my previous post I noted how much I got out of the opening keynote session at the recent IDUG NA conference. Another presentation I enjoyed was IBM’s Peter Bendel discussing the latest enhancements to the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS V4.1 (DB2 Accelerator).

(Henrik Loeser) Some of the advertised improvements in the recent DB2 10.1 Fixpack 4 apply to the long existing tool db2look. Two new options have been added: “-createdb” and “-printdbcfg”.