(Mike Barrie, Moditha Sanjay De Costa, Gowrimani Gopalakrishnan and Murali Neralla) The Temenos T24 core banking application is a critical application for the banks that use it and has a primary focus on providing an appropriate level of high availability and disaster recovery.

(Amol D. Barsagade) This article illustrates the process and methodology for migrating from Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 12.x/15.x to DB2 9.7.x/DB2 10.1.x. The purpose is to enable you to perform successful migration to DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows by following this processes and meth

(Susan Visser) The IDUG DB2 Tech Conference 2013 is scheduled for April 29 – May 3, 2013 in Orlando, Florida. Make your plans to attend now. The IDUG.org website has been updated with detailed information about the conference, including:

(Dave Beulke) As your Java workload continues to grow, your application monitoring and SQL performance needs to be improved within the system and application coding. The following techniques will help you monitor, improve and streamline your DB2 Java application performance.

(Jack Xia and Anthony Corrente) IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows has a number of options to provide high availability for production systems such as high availability and disaster recovery (HADR), DB2 pureScale, and DB2 MSCS. This article shows you how to set up a DB2 cluster in a virtual Micros

(Thuan Bui) IBM DB2 10 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition (AESE) is a complete database solution that provides a host of development, optimization, and management tools for use with data-intensive applications.

(Erik Wiedenman and Wei-Dong Zhu) This IBM Redbooks Solution Guide provides an overview of the IBM Content Navigator, which is a ready-to-use, modern, standards-based user interface that supports Enterprise Content Management (ECM) use cases, including collaborative document management, production i

(Ed Lynch) The IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) is a workload optimized appliance that uses both System z and Netezza technologies. In this article, learn how to maintain IDAA in configurations other than the standard configuration of connecting a single IDAA to a single DB2 subsystem or to a si

(Robert Catterall) Effective regression testing, and comparative application testing in general, depends largely on your ability to reproduce in a test environment a workload that closely mimics the production application workload of concern.

(Miao Zheng, Ning Jiang Bin, Song Xiao Yu, Serge Bourbonnais and Yi Jin) Understanding the impact of workload and database characteristics on the performance of both DB2, MQ, and the replication process is useful for achieving optimal performance.