(Susan Visser) Rick Swagerman who took over as the DB2 Tech Talks Host from Serge Rielau has just recorded two Tech bits. Tech bits are shorter recordings on topics related to DB2. These two bits are both conversations with IBM Champions to hear their impressions of the latest technology being de

(Ember Crooks) We’ve reported this issue to IBM, but since we’ve run into it several times across more than a year, and in multiple different Fix Packs of Commerce, I thought I’d share it in case someone else runs into it. The main way it manifests initially is like this:

(Robert Catterall) I’ve been working with DB2 for z/OS for about 25 years. During most of that time, I’ve been actively engaged in performance tuning work — specifically, performance tuning as it pertains to the CPU and elapsed time associated with application access to data in DB2-managed database

(Frank Fillmore) A few weeks ago a customer was confronted with a common challenge. They had to move terabytes of data – billions of rows – from DB2 for LUW to DB2 for z/OS. I suggested a “cursor-based load” (aka the “cross-loader”).

(Kevin Kepros) The IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services 5.0 product (also known as C&DS 5.0) is a JEE-based application that can be leveraged by other IBM SPSS products to provide enhanced capabilities. As a JEE-based application C&DS requires an application server to run on, and the logic

(Ravi_M) IBM DB2 pureScale (also known as DB2 application cluster transparency) feature introduced clustering technology to DB2 on distributed platforms, so you can deploy continuously available and scalable database clusters. The technology is based on the IBM DB2 for z/OS architecture that busines

(Henrik Loeser) One of the frequent questions during bootcamps is about what tools are available for performing tests, especially driving workloads against a DB2 database. In an older article I pointed you to the Workload Multiuser Driver (WMD) and to the TPoX-included workload driver, both free, op

(Jason K. Yong and Stephen Willoughby) This article shows you how to create a web service proxy in WebSphere DataPower for a web service registered and governed in WebSphere Service Registry and Repository. It also shows you how to attach a service-level mediation policy to the service in WebSphere

(Dave Beulke) The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) North American conference is always full of great DB2 Family presentations. I try to go through all of them because they are always full of great ideas, best practices, hints and tips. I guess that’s why IDUG celebrated both DB2 for z/OS’ 30-year

(Cristian Molaro) DB2 for z/OS is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. When released, DB2 was designed to serve as a data warehouse. With time and development, DB2 evolved into the state-of-the-art Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and data warehousing engine that we know today.