(Lockwood Lyon) The most important goal for a tech support team is to give management the data they need to prioritize the team’s work.

(Ilene Seelemann) IBM Installation Manager is the technology for installing and maintaining IBM WebSphere Application Server V8 and later. Typically, Installation Manager is installed on every production system with the products whose lifecycle it is used to govern.

(Michael Sansoterra) Many programming languages, such as Visual Basic, C#, Java, JavaScript, and others, have a “split” function. Split allows a developer to take a single string containing a delimited list of items and separate the individual items into a dynamically sized array. Every so often, I

(Philip) Don’t know how your tables are growing or shrinking over time then this article should help you, and it uses built in DB2 administrative view called SYSIBMADM.ADMINTABINFO so nothing too complicated to do here; full details about SYSIBMADM.ADMINTABINFO can be found in the IBM Help Centre.

(Sonali Surange) Machine logs from diverse sources are generated in an enterprise in voluminous quantities. IBM Accelerator for Machine Data Analytics simplifies the task of implementation required so analysis of semi-structured, unstructured or structured textual data is accelerated.

(Brian Fairchild) At Xtivia, we monitor and support multiple clients that use Lawson applications with a DB2 LUW (Linux, Unix and Windows) database back end. I wanted to share some of my experience and lessons learned over the years.

(Jack Vamvas) Question: How can I find out the maximum amount of connections allowed on a DB2 database?

(Aslam Nomani, Saroj Tripathy, Sumair Kayani and Ian Boden) The DB2 pureScale feature leverages the IBM Storwize V7000 storage system synchronous remote copy function like Metro Mirror to maintain an identical copy on primary and secondary volumes for disaster recovery purposes.

(Jim Staton) In my previous article, “Reuse Your RPG Code with SQL User-Defined Functions,” I discussed how you could reuse RPG business logic in SQL by taking an RPG program or service program that returns a single value and then using the SQL CREATE FUNCTION command to make the business logic avai

(Kenneth Stephen) Java EE 6 includes a new set of features and services called Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI). CDI relies on and provides services to other technologies introduced in Java EE 6.