(Dave Beulke) As I get ready to travel to IDUG Berlin I look back at the Information on Demand (IOD) conference and remember the importance of all the components that enabled the conference theme, Big Data Analytics.

(Troy Coleman) DB2 provides stored procedures that can be called in application programs to perform administrative functions. Here’s a list of these procedures. For detailed descriptions and a complete list of the parameters used by these procedures, see the Administration Guide.

(Yuki Miyata) Learn some best practices that are useful for developing patterns for IBM PureApplication System In this article, the author introduces how to configure and use the Custom Workload Standard, a new function for building databases with a virtual application pattern.

(Richard Wozniak) In Part 1 of this article, we explored why some organizations—such as high-value arbitrage traders working for large investment firms—need ways to accommodate time-series data types in their databases. And we highlighted some of the key capabilities that made IBM Informix TimeSerie

(Adrian B. Jordan and Barry Pellas) Learn how to use the IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and WebSphere Portal Server (WPS) migration framework to quickly and easily move WAS and WPS on z/OS from WPS v6.1.5 on WAS v7.0 to WPS 8.0 on WAS v8.0.

(Scott Hayes) 97%% of our studio audience learned something! Leon gave us a fantastic presentation on BIG DATA. Not only did he explain what it is and why it is important, but finally, at last, some explained DB2’s relationship with BIG DATA!

(Lydia Parziale, Dan Davenport, Eduardo Kienetz, Tito Ogando, Manoj Srinivasan Pattabhiraman and Srivatsan Venkatesan) IBM z/VM 6.2 introduced significant changes to z/VM with a multi-system clustering technology that allows up to four z/VM instances in a single system image (SSI) cluster. This tech

(Paul Lee, Steve Raspudic and Qiao Chu) This paper describes a distinct configuration of an automated IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows software failover solution that uses shared disk storage.

(Piyush Chordia) DB2 databases can be configured for different logging mechanisms like circular and archival logging. These mechanisms can be changed for a database at any point after the database is created. By default while creating a database in IBM DB2, db logging method is set to “Circular” log

(Willie Favero) I was recently asked what changes, if any, we made to the DB2 utilities when we used them to run against our 10 TB fact table during our data warehouse performance testing? I’ve decided to start posting my answers here, along with replying to the individual via e-mail. Now, if I’m