(Mohamed Soliman) This tutorial introduces the set of monitoring tools available with IBM DB2® 10.1 and shows how each is used to monitor how well (or how poorly) your database system is operating.

(Willie Favero) Start 2013 the right way with this webcast discussing what’s happening with DB2 for z/OS. Jeff Josten, Chief Architect for DB2 for z/OS at IBM’s Silicon Valley Lab, is the scheduled speaker.

(Martin Hubel) Cristian spoke about the importance of rebinding to obtain DB2 10 performance benefits, plan management, and the new Bind features in DB2 10 for z/OS. Watch the replay…

(Kent Milligan) SQL procedures and functions have been supported by DB2 for i for many releases. This support enables developers to create procedural SQL objects like the example procedure shown in Figure 1.

(Susan Visser) Are you planning to go to the IBM Connect event this year? It’s coming up soon: Jan 27 – 31 in Orlando, Florida.

(John Haldeman) Many organizations use production data to populate their test environments. The problem with this is that if there is sensitive data in your production environment, then you are exposing that data to software developers and testers.

(Robert Catterall) First, my apologies for having let so much time go by since last posting to this blog. The fourth quarter of 2012 was a very busy time for me. The pace is a little less frenetic now, and I should be able to resume blogging here on a fairly regular basis (I hope to post an entry he

(Bedoya Hernando) IBM DB2 Web Query for i offers a set of modernized tools for a more robust, extensible and productive reporting solution than the popular Query for System i (also known as Query/400) tool.

(Philip J. McCormick and Andrew Borley) This article introduces the concept of user contexts and describes how to implement them in WebSphere ESB flows. User contexts are the only method for passing data that are not part of the message payload between multiple WebSphere ESB flows.

(Paul Mayhew) Have you ever wondered what the busiest tables are in your database?