(Robert Catterall) There’s an interesting application performance situation that I’ve encountered several times over the past twenty years or so, most recently a couple of weeks ago. I was talking with a DBA over lunch at a regional DB2 users group meeting. He mentioned that he and some of his colle

(Abhinav Priyadarshi, Harish Shenoy and Ravi SK Sinha) This article shows you how to use IBM Worklight and the Worklight server to develop hybrid mobile applications that invoke enterprise services deployed on WebSphere Message Broker. The integration with WebSphere Message Broker addresses any ente

(Willie Favero) DB2 10 for z/OS is just loaded with little gems. So many so, that sometimes I just mess up their descriptions. That’s what happened during my IDUG presentation today on a DB2 10 EXPLAIN feature. I took two very cool concepts delivered by DB2 10 and reversed their descriptions:

(Scott Hayes) 100% of our studio audience learned something! During this unique episode of The DB2Night Show, Michael Krafick, Sr. DB2 LUW DBA, DB2 comic, and database obedience trainer shared with us his “school of hard knocks” lessons learned about achieving maximum, remarkable, awesome performanc

(Kathryn Zeidenstein and Shengyan Sun) This article gives you a step-by-step overview of using the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) accelerator that is included with the standard InfoSphere Guardium data security and protection solution.

(Susan Visser) Just in time for IDUG, Paul Zikopoulos and his team of co-authors have created a new ebook for you to deepen your skills in regards to the latest release. Here are some details about the flashbook:

(Michael Krafick) I would love to say that the biggest technical challenge of my career was some massive data warehouse or an OLTP database with an insane number of transactions per second. Heck, I’ve even had the distinction of working on the second largest DB2 database in the world (at that time).

(Wiliam Righi) IBM DB2 10.1 for Linux, Unix and Windows has introduced the Continuous Data Ingest feature. The INGEST command provides an alternative to the known methods of previous DB2 versions: IMPORT and LOAD.

(Craig S. Mullins) In the first three installments of this series on DB2 locking we have looked ata broad overview of locking (part 1), table and table space locks (part 2) and the difference between locks and latches (part 3). Today we will move ahead and discuss page and row locking.

(Mario E. De Armas, Steve Groeger, Phil Schaadt, Richard Duran and Deborah Zippel) Starting with the releases of IBM WebSphere DataPower firmware V5.0 and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V8.0, IT service developers and policy administrators can now attach and affect Enterprise Service Bus