(Susan Visser) Join host Serge Rielau with guests Holly Hayes and Cliff Leung for a deep dive into IBM InfoSphere Optim solutions that offer the state of art performance monitoring and optimization technology for DB2 for LUW.

(Ember Crooks) This is a new format for me – Focusing on a single error message I’ve seen recently and probably frequently. It’s a short entry for this one. I’m not sure of the value of this. I can get most of this from the info center. But I think about when I search on things in other areas and […]

(Awajeet Arya) In this article, learn to trace JDBC calls using a data replication product from IBM: InfoSphere Change Data Capture (CDC) with DataDirect Spy for JDBC for Oracle, Sybase, and SQL Server.

(David Hare) IBM WebSphere Application Server supports an ever-growing range of applications, each with their own unique set of features, requirements, and services. Proper performance testing and analysis on each of these applications is essential to ensure they are performing at their maximum pote

(Willie Favero) It was close once again; we almost made it out of the month of July with no publication updates. However, once again the crew that keeps all the DB2 for z/OS product documentation up to date managed to take on a couple of the pubs before the month ran out to continue their traditi

(Paolo Bruni, Marcos Caurim, Elise Gotay, Susan Lawson, Glenn McGeoch and Rebecca Poole) It is well known that, today, speed to market, flexibility, and cost reduction, in this or any other order, are top concerns common to all IT executives. If significant resource investments are already placed in

(Susan Visser) I know it seems early to start planning for a fall conference, but I’m sure you’ll agree that time flies! Not only does it fly, but it takes time to put together a justification proposal to attend the conference and to get it approved.

(Ember Crooks) The utility heap is used by – surprise, surprise – utilities. Load, Backup, Restore, Redistribute, Compression Dictionary Creation, and Online Index reorg operations each use memory from this heap.

(Matthias Nicola and Martin Sommerlandt) The new temporal features in IBM DB2 10 provide rich capabilities for time-based data management. For example, a date range can be assigned to each row of data to indicate when a row is deemed valid by your applications or business. Tables enabled to track su

(Philip) A few weeks ago I watched an excellent presentation by Melanie Stopfer from IBM on the IDUG website. I have just tried to find it again and currently you can still watch it again, click here and click on the link about two thirds of the way down the page and you too can still watch the exce