(Dave Beulke) Big data continues to be all the rage for government, private and public companies as the new vendors scramble to make their products work and others rebrand last year’s to handle bigger data than their competitors. The problem is that new and old vendors are still missing the scalabi

(Ted J. Wasserman) A series of articles about IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2 UDB) V8.2 security features would not be complete without a discussion of the different administrative authority levels and privileges. This article is the fourth part of a series that examines

(Ember Crooks) This post is specific to WebSphere Commerce. I ran into a new stagingprop failure today(which doesn’t happen all that often anymore), and it taught me something about custom staging triggers, too.

(Dmitriy Beryoza, Shilpa Bhimavarapu, Alan Blake, David Cushing, Vlaunir Da Silva, Mario Daigle, Avery Hagleitner, Ian Henderson, Beth Jubera, Skyla Loomis, Chris McPherson, Steven Rogers, Carlos Ruiz and Christopher Yao) IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) provides a proven enterprise BI platform

(Jin Shang, Xiaocheng Wang and Da Zhang) WebSphere Adapter for JDBC runs on IBM Business Process Manager V7.5 and enables bidirectional communication between databases and applications. Beginning with IBM BPM V7.5, WebSphere Adapter for JDBC added a built-in paging query functionality. Learn how to

(Henrik Loeser) Last week during a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) with an ISV we tried to port and deploy database objects from Oracle to DB2. During some testing I ran into a strange error (at least at first) and only stepping back and getting some coffee helped to explain it. Can you guess what went wrong

(Troy Coleman) IBM recently announced the DB2 11 for z/OS Early Support Program (ESP). Selected ESP participants are able to utilize the next version of DB2 prior to its general availability. Contact your IBM representative for details.

(Henrik Loeser) IBM PureData System for Transactions and IBM PureData System for Analytics are two new categories of IBM’s expert integrated systems, the so-called PureSystems.

(Judy Fainor) In Part 1 of this article, we explored two different strategies for provisioning test data using the IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management solution—cloning and subsetting production data.

(Maksym Petrenko, Amyris Rada, Garrett Fitzsimons, Enda McCallig and Calisto Zuzarte) This paper provides best practice recommendations that you can apply when designing a physical data model to support the competing workloads that exist in a typical 24×7 data warehouse environment.