(Santhosh Kumar Kotte) Explore the functions of the Java Integration Stage (DataStage Connector) introduced in IBM InfoSphere Information Server version 9.1. This article addresses the Excel data source connectivity problem in older releases of IBM InfoSphere Information Server (7.5.x, 8.0.x, 8.1.x,

(Serge Rielau) Back in the early 1990s when I first started working on database language architecture, DB2 for Linux, Unix, and Windows was a new DB2 database manager (I believe we called it DB2 for common servers back then) and making a big jump in the SQL that it supported along with implementing

(Bill Cole) I admit it. I’m a DBA. I’ve been a production DBA answering calls at 2:00AM where some voice on the other end of the phone announces “there’s a problem in Production” or being awakened by a pager. Why do I tell you this? It’s because those bruises and scars inform what I write here.

(Jacob (Jake) Stoeffler and Eric Herness) This article provides background, insights, and a pragmatic set of techniques for installing application updates and product fix packs in WebSphere® Process Server V7.0 environments where continuous availability is desired.

(Vince Petrillo) In my last blog I focused on tooling support for the new DB2 BLU Acceleration and rightfully so. BLU Acceleration is a game changer and tooling support makes it even easier to use. I also want to point out there were many enhancements to Data Studio beyond support for BLU Accelera

(Ember Crooks) This series started with Explain Part 1 – Explain and the DB2 Optimizer. This is the second post in the series. I want to cover my favorite method for generating Explain Plans, and in the process, discuss some of the elements. I am a fully admitted command line junkie.

(Troy Coleman) This IBM Red Alert notification, “Potential loss of data for DB2 v10 users on z/OS 1.12 and 1.13 releases,” is dated May 29:

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something! Martin presented his approaches to application problem solving and tuning.

(Peter J. Jamack) Storing massive amounts of data is great until you need to do something with it. No incredible discoveries or futuristic predictions come from unused data, no matter how much of it you store. Big data can be a complicated beast. Writing complex MapReduce programs in the Java™ progr

(Craig S. Mullins) DB2 provides a way to change the way that a program or SQL statement acquires locks. That way is known as the isolation level and it can be set to specify the locking behavior for a transaction or statement.