(Dave Beulke) One of the presentations that I did at the IDUG Berlin conference was “Java DB2 Developer Performance Best Practices.” This speech covers all the interesting Java application designs, coding consideration and database related best practices I have found over the years doing applicatio

(Troy Coleman) Last week I posted a lengthy list of stored procedures that can be used to help with administrative tasks. What follows is a much shorter list of some stored procedures that are used to manage performance.

(Keerthana Sharath and Pritesh Parmar) This tutorial describes an easy and efficient caching mechanism based on DynaCache for IBM Business Process Manager V7.5. DynaCache enhances application performance and provides the flexibility to load or flush cache contents at runtime.

(Willie Favero) It looks like an all DSNZPARM APAR Friday today. I have two APARs, both dealing with ZPARMs in one way or another, one is a HIPER, and both sound pretty interesting.

(Susan Visser) DB2 10.1 Fundamentals – Exam 610 Start with this exam. It contains questions for concepts that are common across all platforms that DB2 runs on. There is a heavy SQL component to the exam, and most people who use DB2 daily should find this exam fairly easy.

(Robert Catterall) I was recently involved in an interesting DB2 for z/OS performance analysis effort. An organization had moved a DB2 data sharing group from one Parallel Sysplex mainframe cluster to another (if you aren’t familiar with DB2 data sharing, you can check out an introductory blog entry

(Willie Favero) I received a question last week asking how a checkpoint affects when a page set is switched from read/write to read-only processing. The original question also contains stuff about PCLOSET, PCLOSEN. I have kind of paraphrased the question to reduce its length.

(Sundari Voruganti and Kathy Zeidenstein) In this article, you will learn how InfoSphere Guardium provides database activity monitoring and auditing capabilities that enable you to seamlessly integrate Hadoop data protection into your existing enterprise data security strategy. You will learn how to

(Philip Howard) IBM’s Information on Demand conference was, as usual, informative though it’s sometimes difficult to keep track of all the new releases unless you attend the press conference (which I don’t) and even then you don’t get what was released the previous week.

(Jonathan Lidaka) This detailed, step-by-step guide explains how to customize your IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0.0.2 Web experience by using the new modularized theme framework.