(Sergio Dias) IBM Informix version 12.10.xC1 comes with striking new features and enhancements in existing features—as well as a few features or products that were removed. Understanding the new, enhanced, and discontinued features is crucial for better planning and determining which functions shoul

(Ember Crooks) This post comes out of one of the more challenging technical problems I have encountered recently.

(Philip Nelson) It is rare that Information Management topics become discussion points in the mainstream media; however, Big Data is a popular topic that has even made it onto BBC’s “Start the Week” discussion program on BBC Radio 4: right at the heart of the establishment.

(Ajith Kumar Punnakula, Rahul Jain and Balaji Kadambi) Business applications commonly need to reuse aggregated or processed data from a set of data sources over a single series of operations. An example for this could be generation of reports for analysis and decision making. In order to support thi

(Ruiping Li) Business analytics plays a crucial role in today’s workplace. The performance and cost of the DB2 Analytics Accelerator opens up unprecedented opportunities for enterprises to make use of the data on the IBM System z platform.

(Craig S. Mullins) DB2 augments resource serialization using claims and drains in addition to transaction locking. The claim and drain process enables DB2 to perform concurrent operations on multiple partitions of the same table space.

(Karl Gaffney and Daniel McGinnes) When many applications are deployed and running concurrently in an IBM WebSphere Application Server environment, it is often desirable to determine which of these applications are consuming CPU resources. This is especially true if it is suspected that one or more

(Henrik Loeser) From time to time my colleagues and I get contacted on how to set up and tune DB2 for use with Temenos T24. The latter is a core banking system and in use worldwide. And it uses XML as internal data storage format which makes it an ideal fit for DB2 pureXML (both on z/OS and on Linux

(Troy Coleman) Since IBM unveiled its big data strategy, there’s been an interesting response. Some have focused on the role of the DBA, wondering if advancements like IBM Data Analytics Accelerator for z/OS (IDAA) and Netezza, which are designed to eliminate concerns over index design when storing

(Philip Howard) Readers will be aware that there has been some confusion about the support for JSON (JavaScript Object notation) documents in the latest release of DB2.