(John Bekisz) This article shows you how to configure the Netezza Connector properly when transactions coming from IBM InfoSphere Data Replication’s Change Data Capture (CDC) are first passed through DataStage before being written to PureData System for Analytics (Netezza).

(Craig S. Mullins) Conceptually, DB2 is a relational database management system. Actually, some might object to this term instead calling DB2 a SQL DBMS because it does not conform exactly to Codd’s relational model.

(Rav Ahuja) The data generated by the ever pervasive mobile applications can hold a gold mine of useful nuggets when aggregated and analyzed comprehensively.

(Willie Favero) Today’s Fortune 500 companies are embracing distributed techniques to access mainframe data on DB2. Although online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads still dominate DB2’s local processing, more applications, such as data warehousing analytics, run remotely as distributed tasks.

(John Park) Hemingway once wrote “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typerwriter and bleed” — he also wrote — “The best way to find out if you trust someone is to trust them.”

(Troy Coleman) DB2 11 brings many new SQL processing enhancements that are designed to simplify application coding. One such enhancement is support for arrays. An array is a user-defined data type that consists of an ordered set of elements of a single built-in data type.

(Ian Bjorhovde) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter […]

(Robert Catterall) Jeff Josten, IBM distinguished engineer and the chief architect of the IBM® DB2® for z/OS® enterprise data server, speaks often of his team’s relentless focus on “raising the bar.” But on what is the bar being raised? Josten means raising it on everything that makes DB2 for z/OS h

(Bobby Woolf and Tamiko W Brown) IBM PureApplication System is a cloud computing system-in-a-box with integrated hardware and software for deploying and executing workloads in a cloud. As with other systems, administrators should maintain a current set of backups of the system and its workloads.

(Eric Berg) Many organizations that have made .NET an important part of their IT landscape will start with the belief that BizTalk Server is the logical choice for an integration platform. What I wanted to do in this post is point out some of the capabilities delivered by IBM Integration Bus (IIB)