(Michael McGeein) This document provides an overview of the concepts, color schemes, and files used for skinning in IBM Cognos Business Insight.

(Serge Rielau) This two-part Tech Talk series is a great way to start your preparation for the all new DB2 10 for Linux, UNIX and Windows 610 Fundamentals certification exam.

(Robert Catterall) Recently I got a question from a mainframer who was seeing rather high CPU times for the DB2 DDF address space. DDF, of course, is the distributed data facility — the DB2 component that handles communications with client systems (usually application servers) that send requests to

(José De Jesús) This article series explains the basics of cloud computing, beginning with some of the underlying technologies that support a cloud environment. Along the way, you will also see where some of IBM’s key cloud offerings fit into the picture and how they can help you be successful in th

(Ember Crooks) First, a disclaimer. This process is only going to work for tables in AST tablespaces. It also will only work for tables that are not MDC, and do not have a clustering index. It will work for most WebSphere Commerce 7 tables. This is intended as a simple instruction set – assuming you

(Michael Sansoterra) In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the DB2 for i developer’s newest friend, the XML "slicer and dicer" table function: XMLTABLE. XMLTABLE is powerful because it can read an XML document and convert its content to a tabular format that can participate in a query with relation

(Marc Reed) Unbalanced hierarchies are often found within OLAP data sources. One of the most common examples is a Chart of Accounts dimension. These are dimensions where not all members drill to the same depth as each other. This document illustrates the use of dimensional functions to return all le

(Kent Milligan) The GA version of the DB2 for i 7.1 release simplified access to DB2 objects on remote systems by eliminating the need for explicit remote connections with the new three-part name support. Instead of developers having to use an extra CONNECT or SET CONNECTION statement to explicitly

(Cristian Molaro) IBM DB2 for z/OS and IBM System z are already the platforms of choice for decision support environments worldwide—and DB2 has been adding warehousing and analytics-specific functionality with each new release. Today, it is possible to build an end-to-end enterprise warehousing solu

(Lei Zhi and Jinzhu Zhang) IBM Database Patterns provides solutions to easily provision and manage databases on IBM Workload Deployer (IWD) in a private cloud. In this article, learn how to create database images and new databases using database images in IBM Database Patterns 1.1.0.1.