(Dave Beulke) When determining the evaluation criteria for your Big Data project, you need to consider a range of different data inputs, their quality, and expected results. These aspects can span a wide range of topics and different areas. Discussing your Big Data evaluation criteria with manageme

(Troy Coleman) DB2 has long supported LOB and XML data processing. LOB support goes all the way back to the GA of DB2 6 in 1998. XML support, I believe, debuted in DB2 7 as a bolt-on using XML extenders.

(Cheung-Yuk Wu, Leif Pedersen and Cliff Leung) Learn how to create query workloads directly from your own SQL repository, without the overhead of archiving or staging your workload data. Leverage the Query Tuner user interface to define dynamic and static SQL statement filters, and tune the saved wo

(Ember Crooks) Somewhere along the line, I associated eAUTOMATICf settings for parameters with DB2Œs Self-Tuning Memory Manger (STMM). But the two are not associated. Sure, if STMM is set to ON, then some parameters set to AUTOMATIC will be tuned by the STMM, but many parameters can be set to aut

(Scott Hayes) 97% of our studio audience learned something! During this episode of The DB2Night Show, George Baklarz, IBM’s most frequent flier, shared with our audience great information about DB2 BLU Acceleration, pureScale enhancements, Oracle Compatibility Updates, JSON, DB2 Packaging Updates, a

(Jeff Hoy, Bill O’Donnell, Shane B. Weeden and Chunlong Liang) OAuth 2.0 service provider support was added as part of IBM WebSphere Application Server versions 7.0.0.25, 8.0.0.5, and 8.5.0.1. This article provides an overview of OAuth support highlighting architecture, new features, and the minimal

(Craig S. Mullins) The LOAD, REORG and REBUILD utilities all move data around. As such, there are some general recommendations that apply to most of these utilities. Let’s examine a few of them.

(Alex Woodie) The reasons why organizations undertake IBM i application modernization initiatives are as varied as organizations themselves. Sometimes, it’s people-driven, while other times, the technology itself needs a refresh. With 12 years in the modernization business, the folks at Fresche Lega

(Stevan Antic, Mike Koranda and Paul Stanley) This article describes the integration architecture between InfoSphere Streams and InfoSphere DataStage, and it provides step-by-step instructions for connecting InfoSphere Streams 3.0 applications with InfoSphere DataStage 9.1 jobs using the InfoSphere

(Joab Jackson) Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis.