(Philip) Previous to one of my work colleagues of more years experience in working with LINUX and UNIX enlighten me to this most useful command I believe most of you out there like me would fall into four camps:

(Manjula Panthagani and Sanjit Chakraborty) In this tutorial, you’ll learn about IBM Informix Data Warehousing concepts and the tools that you can use to create data warehouses and optimize your data warehouse queries. This tutorial prepares you for Part 7 of the System Administration Certification

(Martin Hubel) 100% of our studio audience learned something! Namik presented the advantages and improvements in the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA),including improvements introduced after V2.

(Willie Favero) Today we are working with bright colors… my attempt to emulate my computer screen when I connect to TSO. This is also my attempt at looking at a couple of messages from some DB2 –DISPLAY commands, the –DISPLAY DD and –DISPLAY THREAD.

(Piotr Pruski and Andre Albuquerque) This tutorial introduces the concepts of authentication, authorities, privileges, audit facility, trusted context, RCAC, and LBAC as they relate to DB2 10. It is the seventh in a series of tutorials designed to help you prepare for the DB2 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, a

(Lockwood Lyon) Let’s assume that as a DBA you are given the assignment of performance tuning in the DB2 z/OS environment. Is there more than one way to do this?

(Puneet Sharma, Srinivasa Parkala and Somak Bhattacharya) The Policy Monitoring component is introduced in IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) v10.1 release. Using IBM Cognos Business Intelligence reporting tools, Policy Monitoring enables organizations to report on data quality by using agg

(Jeff Berger and Paolo Bruni) The tight integration that IBM DB2 for z/OS has with the IBM System z architecture and the z/OS environment creates a synergy that allows DB2 to use advanced z/OS platform functions. This synergy includes the enterprise storage systems.

(Willie Favero) Today’s blog post discusses two DSNZPARM keywords (MAXCONQN and MAXCONQW on the DSN6FAC macro) that were introduced on December 13, 2012 via APAR PM43293 to improve management of (distributed) database access threads (DBATS).

(Henrik Loeser) Right now it is not the time for outdoor playgrounds in Germany, but nonetheless: Have you ever watched parents on a playground? They make up an excellent analogy to how some of the DB2 components work.