(Ember Crooks) Over the last few weeks, I’ve done some pretty in-depth coverage of the IBM DB2 Information Center. One commenter suggested I do similar coverage for the IBM DB2 LUW Support Portal, and it sounded like a good idea to me.

(Chen Wang and Zan Zhou) This article introduces the overall architecture of the Web services wrapper of the IBM InfoSphere Federation Server. It explains how to integrate data from web service providers by web service nicknames step-by-step. This article also introduces some of the restrictions of

(Chris Eaton) BLU Acceleration is actually the code name that was given to a set of technologies that were delivered in DB2 10.5. Why BLU? Well it’s a lot easier to say than “column organized, in memory optimized, actionable compression, SIMD exploitive, massively parallel, data skipping, easy to us

(Cindy Russell) Originally presented at the 2013 IDUG DB2 Tech Conference for North America, this webcast is now on demand for listening any time. Learn the foundation principles that are the underpinning of highly effective DBAs and how you can use them to transform your job., as you “do more with

(Martin Lansche and Paul Glezen) Recent fixpacks to IBM WebSphere Application Server versions 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5 include a new SAML Trust Association Interceptor (TAI) that introduces new advanced single sign on capabilities. The TAI includes many properties, and understanding what these options do an

(Guy Lohman) Want to know how BLU Acceleration REALLY works? Written by the researchers and developers that invented it, this highly technical overview is not really a white paper, but in fact a contribution to academic literature that was refereed by world experts and presented at the 39th Interna

(Cindy Russell) Learn from IBM Labs experts as they take you through a scenario of using DB2 tooling to speed and ease the process of adopting the game-changing BLU Acceleration.

(Chris Eaton) It’s been quite some time since I have written regular blogs here. I have taken the last year and a half off from blogging regularly but after doing it for 8 years (I started when blogging wasn’t really a popular thing to do) I figure it was ok to take a bit of a break.

(Dave Beulke) The last two weeks I talked about evaluating reporting tools, the different tools criteria categories, and determining the particular important sub topics that are unique to your company. This week we are going to talk about the Big Data itself, and four ways to determine the best area

(Zafar Gilani) Machine-generated log data is valuable in locating causes of various hardware and software failures. The information derived from it can provide feedback in improving system architecture, reducing system degradation, and improving up-time. Recently, businesses have started using this