In this webcast, Serge Rielau, SQL architect for DB2 for LUW, does a "deep dive" on the compatibility features of the new DB2 10 and how they can help to move applications to DB2 10.

(Sherif Sakr) Select the most suitable MapReduce implementation for large scale data analysis jobs based on your skills, preferences, and requirements. MapReduce is a simple and powerful programming model that enables the easy development of scalable parallel applications to process vast amounts of

(Dean Compher) DB2 v10.1 became available on 30 April 2012 and has TON of new features and improvements, some of which you can begin taking advantage of without doing anything other than upgrading your database. As with the past “features” articles, this is a summary of the new features in v10.1 th

(Klaas) After being a computer operator I made my first steps into the beautiful world called Data Management. Not with DB2, that wasn’t born yet, but with IMS.

(Robert Catterall) Who makes DB2 for z/OS a great database management system? Well, the IBM DB2 developers, of course. But who else? You, that’s who. You, the users of DB2 for z/OS, have provided IBM with a steady stream of enhancement requests since the product was introduced in 1983.

(Lohith) I have given the environment details for the migration. Now will move to the technical part of the migration.

(Jeyabarathi Chakrapani) Concurrent I/O is a feature that was introduced in UNIX and Linux platforms mainly for the benefit of relational database systems. This article explains the difference between the I/O mechanisms available with UNIX and Linux file systems, and shows how concurrent I/O technol

Conor O’Mahony, Program Director in the IBM software group, discusses migrating from Oracle Database to IBM DB2 and how Oracle DBAs can use their skills against DB2.

(Julian Stuhler) Whether your business is planning to implement DB2 10 for z/OS in a matter of months or years, there’s no getting away from the amount of preparation work that can and indeed, should be done sooner rather than later.

(Mario E. De Armas, Thomas Burke, Evan Jardine-Skinner and Dave Spriet) Starting with the release of IBM WebSphere DataPower firmware V5.0 and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V8.0, IT service developers and policy administrators can now attach and affect ESB behavior related to Service Lev