(Willie Favero) We are about to say “Hello” to a knew method for locating information about DB2 and say “Goodbye” to its predecessor. IBM’s Knowledge Center is the latest in product information management.

(Dave Beulke) The big data Hadoop hype is running into reality, and some companies are not liking Hadoop’s options and features. Following are some of the Hadoop facts that a friend of mine noted to explain why their company was migrating their big data project from Hadoop and into the DB2 z/OS env

(Sean C. Foley and Azadeh Ahadian) The growing number of relational databases on the cloud accentuates the need for data protection and auditing. IBM InfoSphere Guardium offers real time database security and monitoring, fine-grained database auditing, automated compliance reporting, data-level acce

(Bill Cole) Don’t you love installing databases? I man the whole stack from the database software through the tools and applications. Lots of real innovation there, eh? How many times have you done this sort of thing? My friend Don was sent to install some very complex software for a client.

(Laura) Find out how organisations like yours are managing these issues. Whether you have a small in-house team or are struggling to find DB2 resources, RemoteDBA can provide DB2 support and management around the clock, wherever you are in the world.

(Ashish Deshpande) IBM WebSphere Commerce provides APIs that allow administrators to perform customer enactment in the system. Learn how you can leverage these APIs to implement customer enactment in a Madisons store with little customization.

(Roman Kharkovski) This week IBM has made several key announcements at its Pulse Cloud Conference (you can watch replays of sessions and announcements here). My absolute personal favorite of these new products and services is the new Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering called BlueMix, which is ba

(Troy Coleman) The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) has partnered with IBM to sponsor free technical seminars in India and Great Britain. The upcoming schedule currently consists of these three events:

(Ember Crooks) Like many applications, WebSphere Commerce puts all tables in USERSPACE1 unless they need larger page sizes. This actually works just fine for smaller and midrange implementations, but we have about one build a year that requires something else – either because of standards that clien

(Tom Beebe and Lester Knutsen) Part 1 of this series introduced the IBM OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) environment and its graphical user interface (GUI) available in IBM Informix software for making changes to Informix database systems. This concluding installment takes a look at some of the advanced sets of