(Robert Catterall) Plenty of folks know that LOB inlining is one of the really great enhancements delivered with DB2 10 for z/OS (it’s something about which I blogged last year).

(Willie Favero) There was something in the presentation of today’s announcements that showed up as no more than a sentence in a description of a slide. In fact, it’s not even in slides or in any of the announcement materials. However, the IBM web page related to it has been updated and it is a ch

(Alex Levy) This article demonstrates how to check LOAD and IMPORT operations through ETL calls to SYSPROC.ADMIN_CMD in a DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows database partitioning (DPF) environment. Using ETL calls, you can accomplish error checking with more control and precision than most ETL tools p

(Dave Beulke) Last week I talked about five new data management perspectives that are driving Big Data. In Part Two of Big Data New Data Management Perspectives I would like to focus on the Big Data analytics.

(Ember Crooks) The IBM DB2 Information Center is a wonderful resource if you know what you’re looking for. Unfortunately, sometimes you do not know exactly what you are looking for. A bit of knowledge about what is there, how it is organized, and how to most efficiently use the IBM DB2 Information C

(Andrew J. Howes and Grace Wong) IBM Integration Bus V9 (IBM IB) has new functionality to facilitate integration with IBM Business Process Manager Standard (IBM BPM). For IBM BPM business process definitions (BPDs) that require access to synchronous services, the IBM BPM user can simply define the i

(Troy Coleman) For years DBAs have used IBM DB2 Connect to develop applications that run on Linux, Unix or Windows and connect to DB2 for z/OS. But what about connecting an application that runs on z/OS to DB2 running on a LUW system or even a separate z/OS system?

(Willie Favero) Today’s discussion focuses around three APAR resolutions that came available the last weeks of May and June 2013. Although the title of today’s post is a tiny bit of a stretch, all three do have something to with some kind of pool in DB2.

(Robert Catterall) Recently I had an e-mail exchange with my friend, colleague, and fellow DB2 blogger Willie Favero, on the subject of DB2 for z/OS group buffer pool sizing. One of my messages was a little wordy (imagine that), and Willie responded with, "[This] reads like it could be your next blo

(Ember Crooks) Just a quick tip today. I’ve been dealing quite a lot with triggers lately, and found the -td option on db2look very useful. I hadn’t had cause to use it before, but it has now become part of my default syntax. In my case, I was moving 963 triggers from a development system to product