(mkrafick) The holy grail of I/T is to be up all the time with no user impact. As most companies mature in the I/T area there is a shift from reactive tactics to proactive measures. There is a strong desire to be an industry leader and adhere to a “Five 9’s” mentality. The “Five 9’s” is a desire for

(Sheng Bo Hou) OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. All resources are managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering users to provision resources through a web interface

(Babita Sonavane and Smitha Pambalath) Developing high performing JDBC applications is not an easy task. This article helps you gain a better understanding of the factors that contribute to your JDBC application performance using the IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ to access DB2 and Informi

(Mitesh Shah) Whether it’s about managing database archive life cycle, application decommissioning, or test data management using InfoSphere Optim, the performance challenges remain the same. A narrow maintenance window, moving billions of rows, complex architecture, and limited hardware resources a

(Troy Coleman) IBM Spatial Support for DB2 for z/OS provides a set of spatial data types that can be used to model real-world entities — anything from the locations of customers, the boundaries of parks and the path of cable lines.

(Cindy Russell) Architect Walid Rjaibi explains the new Row and Column Access Control features in DB2 10 for Linux UNIX and Windows that take security to the next level.

(Robert Catterall) A DB2 for z/OS DBA contacted me a few days ago and posed a seemingly simple question, the answer to which ended up being a little more involved than might be expected. The DBA’s query: how can one alter a table that has a clone?

(Willie Favero) The December 2012 product publication updates are now available. It looks like the DB2 Publication’s Team managed to get all of the most popular DB2 product publications (or at least the most popular in my opinion) updated just in time for the Holidays, just days before Christmas.

(Paul Turpin) One of the most challenging parts of index design is verifying that IBM® DB2® is using a particular index in a way that was intended. Explain output for an SQL operation can show whether an index is being utilized, but it can be extremely difficult and time consuming to generate Explai

(Carol) Fresh from presenting at the IDUG DB2 Technical Conference in Berlin last month, the IDUG President Joe Borges invited Triton Director Julian Stuhler to comment on the forthcoming launch of DB2 11 for z/OS, planned for March 2013. Julian is a recognised DB2 expert and IBM Gold Consultant wi