(Martin Hubel) 92% of our studio audience learned something! Gerry showed the steps to properly enable hints in DB2 10 for z/OS, talking about maintenance levels, and showed the benefits and pitfalls of hints in DB2 10.

(Philipp Spaeti) This article provides an overview of the benefits that a company can achieve by introducing IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator in batch processing systems. The example given is based on a real implementation done at Swiss Re, a major re-insurance company based in Zurich, Switzerland.

(Craig S. Mullins) Today’s post is the second in our DB2 locking series and it covers the topic of table space and table locks.

(Michael Sansoterra) If you’ve been waiting for a DB2 for i feature that is unprecedented in power and simplicity, get ready to become “unhinged.” Further, prepare to hammer on your IBM i admin to install the latest database fixes, because DB2 for i 7.1 Group PTF Level 22 introduces a suite of funct

(Senthil Nathan and Glenn Hochberg) The Python programming language is a popular choice among enterprise developers to quickly put together working solutions. Many companies adopt Python to build IT assets for regular use.

(Dave Beulke) At the BLU acceleration technology briefing, I was able to talk to a wide variety of analysts from many well-known firms along with other architects, consultants and industry practitioners. Everyone was talking about the IBM BLU technology for Big Data that I blogged about earlier, bu

(Ember Crooks) Go-lives bring all kinds of opportunities to find problem SQL. A new site going live or a new site design going live can put a completely different load of SQL on a database. Depending on the level of load testing done, there can be some problems still to find.

(Dinesh G Shetty and Vineet Gupta) To reach new channels of mobile customers, organizations are investing in exposing existing IT assets via web APIs, making their business available instantly on mobile devices. IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Live Web API Services is a cloud offering that enables organizat

Discover the best practices for IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and IBM InfoSphere Warehouse products. Get practical guidance for the most common DB2 product configurations and use this knowledge to improve the value of your DB2 data servers.

(Susan Visser) IBM is sponsoring a technical DB2 workshop at the upcoming IDUG DB2 Tech Conference in Orlando, Florida. Taught by IBM DB2 technical experts Chris Eaton, Danny Arnold and Eric Alton, this workshop covers key features from the recently announced DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration as well