(QianLi Jin, ZiHan Tang and Bin Zhang) This article shows you how to use a simple, downloadable, web-based monitoring tool for WebSphere MQ to provide visualization and custom alert conditions for WebSphere MQ objects, including channels, listeners, topics, queues, and queue managers.

(Dan Burger) The cost of application maintenance can really shrivel the effectiveness of IT. Too many people with too many hours devoted to maintenance should be raising red flags. One thing you can do to diminish the application maintenance money pit is re-evaluating mature (overly kind description

(Willie Favero) It’s true, I do have (and have had for a long time) a kind of odd obsession with DB2’s subsystem parameters, or what are more commonly, and incorrectly, referred to as DSNZPARMs. This obsession has been going for a very long time. In fact, I think it all started when I heard Dave F

(Ember Crooks) I don’t want to blog too much about the conference because I know that when my favorite bloggers talk about conferences I did not get to go to, it just feels like they are mocking me. I tweeted a lot instead (@ember_crooks), and am keeping the blog entries down to a minimum.

(Michael Kwok) 10% faster? Nope. 50% faster? Wrong again.

(Amyris Rada and Roman Melnyk, B.) Are you trying to license your IBM DB2 Version 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows servers correctly in a high availability environment? Do you need help interpreting the announcement letters and licenses? This article explains it all in plain English for the DB2 10.

(Willie Favero) Today’s installment of using Data Studio to manage your subsystem parameters (aka: DSNZPARM keywords) should be part 3, the final portion of the story. We have in the previous two post already discussed connecting Data Studio to your Mainframe that is running your DB2 for z/OS subsy

(Rajeev Kamath and Paolo Bruni) The IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS is a powerful appliance that delivers near real time analytics to SAP on System z with DB2. SAP, a highly integrated business management application, supports most of an enterprise’s business processes and usually is a missio

(Karl Gaffney) In certain business scenarios where IBM Integration Bus or IBM WebSphere Message Broker are utilized, it is critically important to process messages in a message flow and route them on to target in the order that they were sent to the flow. This article describes the usage of IBM Inte

(Scott Hayes) 88% of our studio audience learned something! 12% attended for the humor! During this episode of The DB2Night Show, Ember and Fred shared with us what they learned and observed at IBM IOD 2013. Find HADR tidbits and more, plus some great advice if you are thinking about attending IBM I