(Kent Milligan) Your physical database implementation plays a key role in the performance and extensibility of your application. Because the AS/400’s integrated relational database was so easy to use, many programmers created physical files and logical files without giving much thought to the databa

(Chris Eaton) So far I have blogged a lot about the technology that delivers huge performance gains with BLU Acceleration. But when the project was started the mantra for the development team was “Super Analytics, Super Easy”. So in this blog post let’s focus on the Super Easy part of BLU Accelerat

(Martin Smithson) Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) are agreements between service providers and consumers that can be enforced by ESBs at runtime when processing requests to ensure that the service consumer is authorised to invoke the target service

IBM i shops are struggling to adapt to big data, just like organizations that use other types of servers to store their data. Whether it is email messages, social media posts, or a sequential list of invoices dating back to 1978, you will find it squirreled away inside of some DB2 for i database, so

(Willie Favero) My plan initially was to start a discussion on DSN8ED7 today to follow up in my October 6, 2013 discussion covering the program DSNTXAZP… See my “Improving / simplifying subsystem parameter (AKA DSNZPARM) management” post.

(Craig S. Mullins) In this fourth entry of our series on the DISPLAY command, we take a look at using the DISPLAY command to monitor DB2 stored procedures and user-defined functions.

(Henrik Loeser) I am not you, she is not him. Users differ, applications differ. There are two interesting concepts in DB2 that help to adapt an application environment and application and that are not widely known.

(Sobha Rani Cheruku and Venkata S Vanukuru) IBM DB2 Text Search is integrated with DB2 V10.5 and has been available since V9.5. It is equipped with a highly sophisticated, feature-rich, full-text search server and provides powerful indexing and search capabilities. This article describes various met

(Dave Beulke) The race is on among all the vendors to lock your new Big Data project in to their architecture, platform, and support contracts. All the open source Hadoop derivatives have boiled down to the leaders of Cloudera Impala, Teradata SQL-H, EMC Pivotal (formerly GreenPlum) MongoDB, and on

(Willie Favero) DB2’s subsystem parameters (AKA DSNZPARM) just seem to be one of my favorite topics. I can’t stop writing stuff about them. It’s kind of amazing how so much can discuss about a bunch of parameters that can be listed on a mere 10 pages in the DB2 10 Installation and Migration Guide.