(Seeling Cheung, Luciano Resende, Scott Lindner and Cynthia M. Saracco) Exploring big data and traditional enterprise data is a common requirement of many organizations. In this article, we outline an approach and guidelines for indexing big data managed by a Hadoop-based platform for use with a dat

(Patrick Titzler and Hassi Norlén) In this article, learn to use IBM InfoSphere Workload Replay to validate the performance improvement of InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner (OQWT) driven implementation of DB2 with BLU Acceleration on your production databases. The validation is done by measuring

(Craig S. Mullins) The longer a lock is held, the greater the potential impact to other applications. When an application requests a lock that is already held by another process, and the lock cannot be shared, that application is suspended. A suspended process temporarily stops running until the loc

(Troy Coleman) IBM announced the DB2 11 for z/OS Early Support Program last fall, and a select group of clients are now participating in the program. I want to revisit the announcement letter to show you how IBM is positioning DB2 11.

(Junmin Liu) This article presents a browser cache solution to reduce server requests, improve the speed of auto-suggest, and implement dynamic SKU suggestions on the quick order page of a WebSphere Commerce starter store. WebSphere Commerce V7.2 includes a search box in the site navigation header t

(Dean Compher) In this article I will provide examples of how to do a variety of day-to-day DBA activities in Data Studio. I will discus how to easily gather information about your database and even how to generate an entity/relationship data model diagram to visualize the schema. Examples include

(Willie Favero) The April 2013 product publication updates are now available. There were no updates for DB2 10 or DB2 9 for March 2013. The “almost new” tradition continues with the pub folk publishing documentation updates on a near monthly bases…..

(Jack Vamvas) Creating a backup and restore policy based on service level agreements, Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) is a critical part of DBA work. Another long-term but important Backup and Restore component is devising a Backup Retention Policy.

(Anson) I think that you have all seen the various announcements and press around the new DB2 10.5 and all the various features and functions. I wanted to dive a little bit deeper on the DB2 Advanced Recovery Feature.

(Roman Melnyk, B.) This article outlines the key features and enhancements in IBM DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. To be released in June, this latest version delivers a wide range of new function that directly addresses your business needs in the areas of cost reduction, application performan