(Jacques Roy) This article shows you how to connect and use IBM Informix as a data source or data target with IBM InfoSphere Streams. It covers the use of both the Informix-specific protocol and the more general IBM Common Driver protocol used by several IBM database products. After reading this art

(Roman Kharkovski) Back in 2007 Kevin Kelly in his TED talk has made predictions about the future of the Internet. It turns out he was right. Applications talking directly to each other are a norm today.

(Henrik Loeser) This morning I answered an interesting DB2 XQuery/SQL question about parameter passing. The core issue was related to the different data models and bridging them when data is passed from the SQL world to XQuery or back.

(Andres Voldman and Li Liang) This article discusses the optimization of the IHS access logging features of the WebSphere Commerce sites. Optimizing the logging features will help to troubleshoot general problems, and analyse performance and security issues such as determining response time, respons

(Susan Visser) What great talent we have in the DB2 community! We know the names of many of the long term contributors to the community, but the health of a community is in it’s newcomers. I want to give my thanks to Scott Hayes, IBM Champion and producer of the DB2’s Got Talent competition. With

(Jack Vamvas) Taking a OFFLINE DB2 backup requires shutdown of all database connections . Often you’ll see the SQL1035N The database is currently in use mesage.

(Mario Briggs, Priya Ranjan Sahoo and Farzana Anwar) Beginning with DB2 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, DB2 has supported RDF data and SPARQL application development. In this article, learn about important enhancements for RDF application development that were added in DB2 10.1 Fix Pack 2.

(Mary E. Shacklett) Are three data centers better than two for Disaster Recovery (DR)? Using technologies such as Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS), which facilitates near continuous availability, more organizations are aiming for uninterrupted uptime.

(Willie Favero) An interesting title for a blog post? The word “update” implies I have discussed real time statistic before; I have not. Although, I wish I had. In fact, it’s getting ever more difficult to come up with an original DB2 for z/OS subject to write about. It sometimes seems like every

(Pirabu Pathmasenan and Raki Robert) IBM Netezza is known as the simple data warehouse appliance for serious analytics. Customers using Netezza have been looking at ways to leverage InfoSphere Optim to create their right-sized environments with realistic data for application testing and development.