(Jack Vamvas) Checking for read only on the Linux file system is required when investigating certain DB2 problems especially disk errors.

(Susan Visser) The launch of DB2 on June 7, 1983, marked the birth of relational database as a cornerstone for the enterprise; 30 years later, DB2 for z/OS is still the undisputed leader in the RDBMS market and the envy of its competitors when it comes to total system availability, scalability, secu

(Peter Broadhurst) Common requirements in new enterprise projects include continuous availability to send MQ messages, high availability for individual persistent messages, linear scale of throughput, consistency between different MQ installations, and reduced complexity for administrators.

(Tony Baer) The title of this post is a paraphrase of a question raised, by IDC analyst Carl Olofson at an IBM Big Data analyst event earlier this week.

(Mark Simmonds) For many organizations, the IBM System z platform holds the mission-critical information that forms the basis of key decisions. It might not be surprising, then, that more and more organizations that use System z are moving analytics and decision engines closer to the rich source of

(Predrag Maksimovic) The Oracle Connector is a connectivity component in IBM InfoSphere Information Server. It is utilized by IBM InfoSphere DataStage and other products in the Information Server suite to perform extract, lookup, load, and metadata import operations on Oracle databases.

(Jack Vamvas) As table data changes , logically sequential data may be on non-sequential physical pages. The database needs to perform added reads . Table Fragmentation leads to a slower response time.

(Susan Visser) I’d like to introduce you to BLU…. or to be more exact, DB2 with BLU Accelerator. This is an incredible piece of technology that was created by technical geniuses from IBM.

(Ajay Sood) Large numbers of extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs need to be validated during the following two common job lifecycle scenarios: Migrating ETL projects/jobs from older version to a new version, or moving jobs from development to QA to production.

(Paolo Bruni and Glenn McGeoch) Business agility is essential to client success in the fast-paced, competitive, and highly regulated global business climate of today. To grow and thrive, clients must effectively adopt and apply modern techniques (including analytics) to gain and sustain a competitiv