(Craig S. Mullins) If you wish to be a successful DBA for a long period of time, you will have to keep up-to-date on all kinds of technology — both database-related and other.

(Kevin Rice) Problem 1: I kept getting a message about not having include files installed. First, I had to get a sysadmin to install the files. But, he didn’t finish the job, quite. I had to soft link it myself. That is, the include files are installed by default in /opt/ibm/db2/V10.1, but link

(Susan Visser) Rather than me telling you about it, I’m sharing content from experts:

(Andrew Borley) SOAs and web services evolve over time — new versions of services are deployed or brand new services must be integrated with existing clients.

(Henrik Loeser) In one of my post regarding performance tuning for Temenos T24 on DB2 I hinted that a hidden column could be used to range partition a table. There have been questions on how to do it and what to use.

(Harald Smith) A key challenge in the day to day management of any solution is in measuring whether the solution components are meeting IT and business expectations. Given these requirements, it becomes incumbent upon IT to build processes where performance against these objectives can be tracked.

(Cindy Russell) Learn the benefits of stored procedures and how to use IBM Data Studo to create and deploy them. Data Studio is free software from IBM.

(Julian Stuhler) DB2 11 for z/OS became generally available in October 2013, and a huge amount of information is available on the many new features and functions (I’ll be writing a round-up blog entry later in January to provide a handy reference to these).

(Serge Rielau) Have you ever received an error message that left you scratching your head?

(Whei-Jen Chen, Scott Andrus, Bhuvana Balaji, Enzo Cialini, Michael Kwok, Roman B. Melnyk and Jessica Rockwood) Building on the business intelligence (BI) framework and capabilities that are outlined in InfoSphere Warehouse: A Robust Infrastructure for Business Intelligence, SG24-7813, this IBM Redb