(Susan Visser) There are three DB2 Symposiums planned for the first half of 2013. Hopefully you’ll be able to attend one of these as they are a great way to hear from industry leading experts on topics that most concern you.

(Vinit Kharche) This document describes a technique to set dynamic default values for date prompts using a combination of prompt macros and JavaScript.

(Carol) A forthcoming date for your diary that you won’t want to miss: on Friday 11th January Triton’s very own Iqbal Goralwalla, Head of DB2 Midrange and Managed Services, will be presenting once again on DBI’s DB2Night Show.

(Brian Fairchild) I’m working on a data purging project for one of our clients and I’ll blog as it progresses. The first step was to find the oldest data in the database and let the application team look it over to decide what can be purged.

(Tom Alcott) Answers to more very frequently asked questions about IBM® WebSphere® Application Server, including how to run it over multiple data centers, which JDK to use, and why (and when) you should migrate to Version V6.1.

(Patrick Titzler and Hassi Norlén) InfoSphere Optim Workload Replay for DB2 for z/OS (Workload Replay) extends traditional database test coverage. Now you can capture production workloads and replay them in your test environment without the need to set up a complex client and middle-ware infrastruct

(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. DB2 Web Query for i preserves investments in the reports developed with Query/400 by offering

(Willie Favero) 2012 comes to an end today. Many have the day off, some don’t but aren’t getting much work done anyway, yet others still have things to complete to finish up their year. With all that in mind, I thought a short yet still handy post would be perfect to cap off the year.

In this particular scenario, a support analyst is presented with a situation where any user that attempts to access the IBM Cognos portal receives an HTTP 500 error.

(Frank Fillmore) In cooperation with IBM, The Fillmore Group performed a proof-of-concept for a large, well-known midwestern retailer in 2011 to demonstrate the use of IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Event Publisher (EP) feature to feed OLTP data into a Netezza appliance.