(Henrik Loeser) Did you recently start paying more attention to credit card bills? Thinking twice before speaking on the phone or sending a text message? Cutting short on communication with your partner…?

(Dr. Hesham Soultan and Emad Maamoun) This article shows you how to develop a component to retry back-end system operations that has minimum impact on the performance of your main message flow. The simple, asynchronous component takes advantage of new IBM Integration Bus node capabilities.

(Karen Orlando, Otavio Rocha Filho, Danijel Paulin, Antonio Rainero and Deborah Sparks) This IBM Redbooks publication for the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for the Open environment walks you through the process of establishing sessions, and managing and monitoring copy services

(Willie Favero) First off, this is not a sales pitch, although some may inadvertently read the following paragraphs as “buy more…”. Rather, today’s post has to do with maximizing the effectiveness of your use of zIIPs (System z Integrated Information Processor ). It’s has become more important

(Dave Beulke) Everyone is talking about implementing analytics within their company or department and using the power of big data to gain a competitive advantage. Previously, I talked about how to get your analytics efforts going in this blog post (http://davebeulke.com/big-data-five-ways-to-get-an

(Scott Walkty and Mike Springgay) This article describes a technique to easily trace (capture) the SQL statements that a client application executes. This technique uses monitoring features in the IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows software, Version 9.7 Fix Pack 4 and higher.

(Roman Kharkovski) On the recent project of mine I had to install WebSphere MQ multiple times on multiple machines. In this post I would like to share script that I have built to automate the entire WMQ installation process on a freshly installed RHEL to about 60 seconds and only a single click. Sou

(Craig S. Mullins) An oft-repeated story about database administration underscores both the necessity for database administration and the lack of understanding of a DBA’s function:

(Ember Crooks) This started as a conversation with a couple of DBA friends when we were playing with MONREPORT.DBSUMMARY. That’s a pretty nifty way to get a quick look at a number of performance parameters, AND to limit the time period covered by the report.

(Robert Catterall) From the very beginning, you’ve been able to add a column to an existing DB2 for z/OS table by way of the SQL statement ALTER TABLE with the ADD COLUMN option. In fact, relative ease of logical database design modification had a lot to do with DB2 becoming a very widely used DBMS.