(Mike Ebbers, Renata DeSouza, Marcelo Lima, Peter McCullagh, Michael Nobles, Brandon Waters and Dustin VanStee) As activities in our world become more integrated, the rate of data growth is increasing exponentially. This data explosion is referred to as big data, which renders current data managemen

(Paolo Bruni, Willie Favero, James Guo, Ravikumar Kalyanasundaram, Ruiping Li, Cristian Molaro, Andy Perkins, Theresa Tai and Dino Tonelli) The IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator Version 3.1 for IBM z/OS (simply called Accelerator in this book) is a union of the IBM System z quality of service and IBM Ne

(Willie Favero) It’s time to roll out the big guns to give a preview of all the stuff that will be coming in DB2 11 for z/OS.

(Avinash Jhawar, Pabitra Mukhopadhyay, Abhinav Priyadarshi and Ravi SK Sinha) This article shows you how to connect JMS applications to WebSphere MQ using IBM Tivoli Directory Server for authentication and lookup. It includes configuration steps for WebSphere MQ and Tivoli Directory Server.

(Craig S. Mullins) In the first part of this series on the DISPLAY command, we focused on using DISPLAY to monitor details about you database objects. In today’s second installment of this series, we will look into using DISPLAY to monitor your DB2 buffer pools.

(Troy Coleman) I had the pleasure of attending IDUG’s DB2 Tech Conference in Australia earlier this month. There were numerous presentations on DB2 11, and since IBM is now making this information public, I’ll share with you some details about the upcoming release.

(Naresh Chainani, Weilin Lu, Alexandria Burkleaux and Matthias Nicola) You have probably heard how DB2 with BLU Acceleration can provide performance improvements ranging from 10x to 25x and beyond for analytical queries with minimal tuning. You are probably eager to understand how your business can

(Curt Monash) There’s a growing trend for DBMS to beef up their support for multiple data manipulation languages (DMLs) or APIs — and there’s a special boom in JSON support, MongoDB-compatible or otherwise. So I talked earlier tonight with IBM’s Bobbie Cochrane about how JSON is managed in DB2.

(Heath Kath) Big data: This term covers a lot of ground. With no definitive dividing line based on file size, data type, number of records, or job requirements, how do you know if you’re doing big data? Ask yourself, has the size or speed requirements of new analytic initiatives put serious strain o

(Vinod A. Valecha) Learn to configure WebSphere Adapter for JDBC to get complete tracing information for each JDBC call while interacting with a DB2 database, which results in faster problem analysis and resolution.