(Troy Coleman) IBM recently announced the zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12), an enterprise system that provides cloud computing capabilities. Here’s a nice overview, and here’s Willie Favero dissecting the name.

(Ember Crooks) This error is usually encountered on a grant statement. DB2 does not require that you specify whether you are granting to a user, a role, or a group, so DB2 must determine which one you mean when you do the grant statement.

(Michael Schulz) IT systems do fail. It’s not a question of if, but rather when. Being prepared for such failures is necessary in today’s enterprise landscape, where data is critical to operations. IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows provides multiple ways to prevent interruptions to data availabili

(Roger E. Sanders) This article is designed to introduce you to the concept of data consistency and the mechanisms DB2 uses to maintain data consistency in single- and multi-user database environments. This will also help you prepare for Section 6 of the DB2 10.1 Fundamentals certification exam (Exa

(Dave Beulke) Building a big data warehouse with billions of rows always needs an extra bit of attention to get the best performance out of the database processing. Application programming is always interesting as the efficiency of the code and the DB2 data types handled by the application code are

(Alex Woodie) Oracle last week unveiled GoldenGate 11g Release 2, a new release of its real time data integration tool, which is commonly used to load large amounts of data, often for business intelligence or disaster recovery purposes.

(Sharad Chandra and Sheng Ping Zhang) This article provides steps to integrate IBM Business Process Manager V7.5 with a JNI implementation based on a Windows platform by creating a native DLL library using JNI, configuring the library in IBM BPM to generate Java Integration Services, and integrating

(Phyllis Donofrio) This series of articles is intended to help new CICS support people understand the basics of the product, and how it has evolved into the strong, robust software it is. It’s intended to help with basic concepts, underlying components that may not be intuitively obvious, and daily

(Tiju Francis) Migration from Oracle Database to IBM DB2 on z/OS is not completely seamless and must be planned carefully. Administrators may face issues when migrating from Oracle to DB2 on z/OS due to locking differences between the two databases (see Table 1). However, these issues can be mitigat

(Vlad Barshai, Yvonne Chan, Hua Lu and Satpal Sohal) The IBM DB2 pureScale feature offers clustering technology that helps deliver high availability and exceptional scalability transparent to applications. The DB2 pureScale feature helps you to meet your business needs around availability and scalab