(Rajesh Rao and Catherine Rivi) Ensuring rule accuracy is an important part of rule development in WebSphere Operational Decision Management. This article demonstrates how a dynamic domain populated from a Microsoft Excel file can be used to reduce inaccuracies when authoring rules.

(Scott Hayes) 100% of our studio audience learned something! Today’s presentations were fantastic! This show contains a buffet of DB2 tips and advice on Migrating Databases, Restrictive Databases, Isolation Levels, Altering Data Types, The Secret, and SQL for DBAs!

(Ember Crooks) I don’t often make changes to existing tables. The WebSphere Commerce database comes with defintions in place. We make customizations that are largely adding columns or adding tables or adding indexes. It is pretty rare that we have to alter one of the handful of custom tables in some

(Srinivasa Rao Kuchi, Nancy L. Navarro, Subhrata Parichha and Ilan Prager) IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary 9.1 uses the Simple and Protected GSS-API Notification (SPNEGO) support provided by WebSphere Application Server to enable configuration of a seamless single sign-on environment for InfoSphere

(Frank Fillmore) One of the challenges of Big Data is, well, its bigness. There are two approaches you should consider – one fairly new, the other not yet delivered – for your data volume issues on DB2 for z/OS.

(Paolo Bruni, Edwin Holt, Jan Larsson, Craig McKellar and Fabricio Pimentel) IBM DB2 Tools for z/OS support and use the most current versions of DB2 for z/OS. These tools are integral for the administration of the DB2 for z/OS environment and optimization of data performance. In addition, the IBM po

(Tansel Zenginler and Kathryn Zeidenstein) IBM InfoSphere Guardium offers enterprise-wide data activity monitoring for data protection and auditing. Two critical elements to consider for a successful enterprise implementation of InfoSphere Guardium for enterprise-wide data protection and audit inclu

(Scott Hayes) Perhaps you’ve read or seen the “official” IDUG Top 10 Reasons for attending this great conference. Here are the “unofficial” Top 10 reasons from my point of view. Whether your company sends you or you have to spend your own dime to invest in your education and career, just get here.

(Dave Beulke) Processing rows inside the DB2 engine is always faster than trying to do the same processing within an application program or outside of DB2. A common program performance mistake is executing two SQL statements and then matching or merging the data inside the application.

(Andrew J. Howes and Philip Norton) WebSphere eXtreme Scale enables the caching of large amounts of data to help improve performance when using services.