(Scott Hayes) 96% of our studio audience learned something! During this special episode of The DB2Night Show, Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst with Forrester, shared with us his perspectives on Database Performance Trends. Learn about new application demands and workloads, mobile devices, virtualized

(Frankie Sun, Jason Woods and Jo-Ann Woods) The DB2 pureScale Feature keeps your distributed database system available 24×7. WLB, ACR, and client affinities provide uninterrupted service during both planned and unplanned outages. If a member fails, applications are automatically rerouted to other DB

(Cindy Russell) Join IBM Distinguished Engineer Berni Schiefer for a Technical Tour of the all new DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration.

(Susan Visser) There are several communities built around DB2 that many people are participating in. It may not be clear which is the best community to be involved with. We had a discussion with several people at IDUG last week and the discussion went into the pros and cons of forums.

(Martin Lansche) IBM WebSphere Application Server stores system passwords in files that are simply encoded. To support clients who want to implement their own password storage mechanism, WebSphere Application Server has provided a System Programming Interface (SPI) to do so. Encrypting these system

(Brendan) In preparation to allow DB2 job to remotely execute SSIS packages several configurations need to be put in place mostly on Windows side.

(Ember Crooks) We bandy about the term “online” reorg. But you’d be surprised how often there are issues with that. IBM officially calls it an “INPLACE” reorg. Read on to understand exactly when it is fully online and when it is not.

(Supal Chowdhury and Divakar Maddikera) In Part 1 of this series, a sample business case scenario illustrated the best approach for designing and creating a technical specification of an application using IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Collaboration Server v10.0. Part 2 examines the implement

(Serge Rielau) Are you writing SQL applications that need to be portable across DB2 platforms? Are you looking for information to help ensure your DB2 applications are portable?

(Dave Beulke) The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) North American conference celebrated both DB2 for z/OS’ 30-year anniversary and its own 25-year anniversary last week in Orlando.