(Dave Beulke) Watching the Facebook IPO and followed by all the Morgan Stanley, NASDAQ and other parties bickering, pointing fingers and preparing lawsuits reminds me of many of the struggling IT projects that I have assisted with as a DB2 consultant.

(Tom Alcott) IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 is a major release that offers dramatic run time improvements, plus simpler and easier ways to develop and deploy applications. This article presents a high level glimpse of some of the new technical features and enhancements that make these improve

(Matthias Nicola) First, let’s revisit the concept of inlined XML storage and then discuss the pros and cons of inlining.

(Thuan Bui) Testing of enterprise changes are costly and difficult tasks for IT organizations. See how an IT team at a fictitious outdoor equipment retailer uses IBM InfoSphere Optim Query Capture and Replay to reduce costs and mitigate risks with realistic testing.

(Henrik Loeser) After discussing hidden (non-visible) columns last week, indexing something non-existing fits into the same theme. Let’s shed some light into this seemingly mysterious topic…

(Ember Crooks) Managing DB2 licenses isn’t exactly the glory work of DB2. It’s not fun, and the only scenario you might come out of messing with them with Kudos is if you’re dealing with an expired Try&Buy license – and then only if it’s someone else’s fault there was a Try&Buy in the first place.

(Charlie Wang, Mike Springgay, Aslam Nomani and Frankie Sun) This paper describes the concept of DB2 workload balancing (WLB) and client affinities. This paper provides detailed examples to illustrate how to enable and use these features to access DB2 pureScale cluster from WebSphere Application Ser

(Craig S. Mullins) Up until DB2 10, all DB2 data was retrieved using some form of indexing or scanning. With DB2 Version 10, a new access method called hashing is available. Of course, referring to hashing as “new” is somewhat disingenuous because it is an old, time-tested data processing technique.

(Susan Visser) The next DB2 Tech Talk is in two parts and is about one of my favourite topics: DB2 Certification.

(Benjamin Parees, Wanjun Wang and Ramakrishna Boggarapu) IBM Web Content Manager in IBM WebSphere Portal can make use of dynacache instances to store rendered content retrieved from Web Content Manager when advanced caching is enabled.