(Fenglian Xu, Sushain Pandit and Dan Mandelstein) IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Reference Data Management Hub v10.0 (RDM), released in July 2012, is a new product providing a series of features that are essential to seamlessly managing reference data in the information landscape across

(Ember Crooks) Every time I write a query for my own use, I tag “with ur” on the end of it. It is such a habit that the most common reason my “describe table” commands fail is because I added “with ur” on the end. I also teach my developers to use “with ur” any situation where they don’t know […]

(Dave Beulke) It was a good Information on Demand conference with Information Management, Business Analytics and Big Data taking their turns as the most important subject. Even the thoughts I mentioned in last week’s blog about management by magazine indicated by the latest Harvard Business Review

(Jian Feng Cai) In this article, you learn how to develop the Execution Object Model (XOM), Business Object Model (BOM), and rules for implementing dynamic forms in WebSphere Operational Decision Management V7.5. Using a simple web-based questionnaire as an example, the article demonstrates how to r

(Willie Favero) I couldn’t decide whether to post this at first, thinking it might be too specific. Then I started getting (and reading) questions about stored procedure and figured you all had a delete button. For those not using stored procedure, you all can just skip this one.

(Troy Coleman) Chapter 9.9 of the “DB2 10 for z/OS Technical Overview” has a lot of good information on DB2-supplied stored procedures. The first section of this overview (9.9.1) examines installation and lists several IBM manuals and Redbooks with more information. It also covers something I wanted

(Willie Favero) Here’s an interesting HIPER (High Impact or Pervasive) APAR that anyone who has recently migrated to DB2 10, conversion mode (CM) and above, should check out.

(Petter Enqvist) With the IBM InfoSphere MDM Reference Data Management (RDM) Hub, customers can apply a master data management (MDM) approach to managing their reference data.

(Mario Briggs, Rajendran Appavu, Farzana Anwar, Ganesh Choudhary and Priya Ranjan Sahoo) The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of W3 specification standards that enable the exchange of data and metadata. Using IBM DB2 10 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Enterprise Server Edition, applicat

(Ember Crooks) I have a client that has been having some issues that cause both HADR servers to go down at the same time. Ignoring for the moment that it’s a bad idea to share resources that can cause this to happen, they seem frustrated that when both servers come back up, DB2 does not automaticall