(Ember Crooks) This is a duplicate re-post, trying to deal with facebook link sharing issues. Ifm constantly discovering new features. Youfd think at this point that Ifd know the contents of the /opt/IBM/db2/V9.7/bin directory by heart. Especially since I intentionally went through everything in

(Dave Beulke) The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) conference was last week and one of the great traditions is talking with all the DB2 vendors at the conference. Getting the latest information and understanding of their product strategies, directions and enhancements can be great for planning y

(Glenn Galler and Ron Bisceglia) Every customer needs a disaster recovery (DR) plan. The strategy will differ from one customer to the next. For IMS, there are two types of disaster recovery solutions: IMS-specific and storage mirroring.

(Troy Coleman) Are you new to DB2 for z/OS and looking for that ONE document that holds all the information you’d ever need to know about DB2 for z/OS? Are you an experienced DB2 for z/OS professional who wants to take advantage of new DB2 10 features?

(Scott Hayes) WOW! I think Maria’s talk today was one of the best on DB2 pureScale that I’ve ever seen. Maria covered everything important – from the hardware required, to installation commands and advice, configuration, monitoring, and more.

(Chin Huang and Ton Ngo) The introduction of IBM PureSystems — an expert, integrated, enterprise-level family of cloud system that encompass applications, services, hardware, and even the expertise (delivered in the form of best practices patterns) — takes cloud computing to new heights.

(Thuan Bui) Learn how the staff at a fictional organization uses various InfoSphere Optim tools that are included in the DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition to gain more value from their business-critical applications.

(Susan Visser) Last week at the IDUG Conference, we handed out 250 copies of this new Flashbook to attendees. It was fun & exciting. Here’s a photo:

(Pavan Kini and Siddharth C. Ravikanthrao) This article describes the various subscription models in WebSphere Commerce and their characteristics that define them. It also covers how to extend the subscription capabilities to model other types of subscription, including a case study of a sample even

(Ember Crooks) This post is specific to WebSphere Commerce. In my experience, usually when Clients upgrade from one WebSphere Commerce version to another (with 6 to 7 being the current focus), they also upgrade or change DB2, the OS, the Hardware – basically everything. To that end my upgrade experi