(Willie Favero) Let’s see, if it’s fall, there’s a new DB2 for z/OS just going generally available (GA), and IDUG EAMA and IOD 2013 are the major happening events, it can only mean one thing; Julian Stuhler must have a new white paper available. Well, that’s almost true.

(Troy Coleman) The IDUG DB2 11 Editorial Committee was formed in March. The team was comprised of volunteers from IDUG’s worldwide community of DB2 users and consultants: Ron Brown, Cuneyt Goksu, Dan Luksetich, Bjarne Nelson, Toine Michielse, Christian Molaro, Kurt Struyf, Julian Stuhler, Billy Sund

(Ember Crooks) Transaction log files are one of the core strengths of a DBMS, if you ask me. The ‘D’ in ACID refers to ‘Durability’. What Durability means is that once a transaction is committed, it is not lost, even if the database crashes or the server it is on has to be restarted.

(Chris Eaton) In a previous blog we discussed the advantages of BLU Acceleration over Exadata. In this blog I’ll compare and contrast BLU Acceleration with the information currently available on Oracle’s announcement of their future 12c In-Memory Option.

(Senthil Nathan and Bugra Gedik, Dr.) InfoSphere Streams is a powerful middleware product that provides a platform for development of streaming applications and their execution in a fast and distributed manner. In a stream processing system, there is often a need to externalize the application-relat

(Craig S. Mullins) As was announced earlier this month (see press release) Version 11 of DB2 for z/OS is officially available as of today. Even if your company won’t be migrating right away, the sooner you start learning about DB2 11, the better equipped you will be to embrace it when you inevitably

(Rafael Victoria-Pereira) In the previous TechTip, I covered the BLOB basics, so now it’s time to implement the archiving and retrieving operations in a reusable, yet simple, way.

(Carlo Randone and Marco Antonioni) Leveraging the capabilities of the Advanced Integration Services (AIS) in IBM Business Process Manager V8.0.1 Advanced, this series describes the implementation of a distributed WS-AT scenario involving two databases (Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2) installed on

(John Iczkovits) Many people in the computer field are surprised when they learn that tape was available before disk. Think about your favorite old TV shows or movies; when the director wanted to show data being processed, you would see flickering lights on part of the CPU or console area.

(Paul Stanley) This article describes how the InfoSphere DataStage Distributed Transaction Stage can be used to guarantee delivery of data. It also addresses the use of local transactions within DataStage database stages. Finally, it describes how the Change Data Capture Transaction stage works with