(Roman Kharkovski) Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is by definition required to provide universal connectivity to many different systems that the enterprise needs to connect together.

(Alberto Ortiz) Develop IBM InfoSphere DataStage jobs that can be called from a command line or shell script using UNIX pipes for more compact and efficient integration. This technique has the potential of saving storage space and bypassing landing intermediate files that eventually will feed an ETL

(Philip Nelson) Unless you’ve been living on a desert island, you can’t have failed to have noticed that the current hot topic is “Big Data”. It even featured in a program on BBC Radio 4, which must the first for an IT topic !!!

(Kent Milligan) The recently announced Technology Refresh 6 for the IBM i 7.1 release includes an enhancement that allows users to directly control the short system name that is used SQL tables, views, and indexes.

(Shishir Narain and Thai La) The earlier articles in this series introduced how Java-based batch programming can be done with IBM WebSphere Application Server, and discussed the available programming models and various advanced capabilities of the WebSphere Batch feature, such as parallel processing

(Willie Favero) If you grew up in the US, you probably remember the round navy blue container with the little girl and umbrella on it spilling salt behind her. The phrase until the picture was “When it rains, it pours”. I think we have since lost sight of the original intent with this cute play o

(Dave Beulke) At the BLU acceleration technology briefing last week there were additional impressive technologies unveiled. IBM’s Big Data solutions showed better outcomes for the beta customers talking during the sessions and along with these three following different solutions should be consider

(Troy Coleman) On March 25, IBM posted a Red Alert for customers running DB2 10 for z/OS data sharing environment. See this detailed description.

(James Buck) SQL’s version of a logical file is a view. Although a view is conceptually similar to a logical file, SQL’s greater flexibility and ability to use functions and expressions make views far more powerful than logical files.

(Anson Kokkat and Soid Quintero) It is important to have an up-to-date and consistent backup available so that you can speed database recovery times. IBM DB2 Merge Backup for Linux, UNIX and Windows gives you alternative strategies to eliminate the need to take regular DB2 full backups and instead u