(Michael Sansoterra) Troubleshooting problems is often a costly component of application maintenance. Consider the case when the user reports an application crash. Exactly what program crashed? Was it the UI logic or business logic embedded in a service program?

(Craig S. Mullins) I get a lot of e-mail. Some of it is junk, but some of it contains questions on all sorts of issues. I cannot answer everything that comes into my in box or I wouldn’t have time to earn a living. But every now and then I will answer a question here on the blog.

(Ember Crooks) It has taken me a while to fully understand the difference between HADR_TIMEOUT and HADR_PEER_WINDOW. I think there is some confusion here, so I’d like to address what each means and some considerations when setting them. In general, you’ll only need HADR_TIMEOUT when using HADR and o

(Dave Beulke) Big Data drives the issue of disaster recovery to the front of the discussion. How critical or how much benefit your Big Data business application is to the bottom line of the business is directly proportionate to your Big Data disaster recovery planning efforts.

The capability to work directly with compressed data represents a dramatic shift for organizations. In this video presentation, listen to Paul Zikopoulos, Information Management WW technical sales and WW Competitive Database and Optimized Systems, and Sam Lightstone, distinguished engineer, DB2 busi

(Chris Eaton) I’ve done some blogging now about BLU Acceleration and I have a plan for more details to come in future posts. But first I wanted to turn my attention to competitive products and show you some of the advantages of DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration. First up; SQL Server 2012 with Column St

(Mandy Chessell and David Pugh) What if your organization could increase customer satisfaction with every customer interaction? What if your customer-facing teams had the information and insight necessary to delight your customers every time they made contact? What if you could proactively provide s

(Mark Connell and Shili Yang) IBM Business Process Manager includes an internal security provider for user access management. However, you may want to leverage an existing user registry, such as an enterprise user directory in LDAP, instead of recreating and maintaining the users and groups in the B

(Tom Rieger) The preponderance of big data and the capability to effectively collect, organize, and synthesize key data into information for analysis and query has managed to bring unprecedented challenges on existing relational database management systems.

(Alex Woodie) Good developers are always on the hunt for new tools that allow them to accomplish their everyday tasks faster, cheaper, or better. For IBM i developers who like to stay within the comfy confines of Eclipse, there’s a little-known database management utility called IBM Data Studio that