(Serge Rielau) A few years ago I sat in a customer briefing and the customer representative described their database philosophy as “pack rats”.

(Willie Favero) It was close; we’re almost out of April. However, the crew that keeps all that DB2 for z/OS documentation up to date slipped in an April refresh of the product publications just under the wire keeping up the newly established tradition of publishing documentation updates on an almos

This document describe troubleshooting method of an issue connecting to Teradata.

(Ember Crooks) This post is specific to WebSphere Commerce. NEVER drop a WebSphere Commerce base index. I believe I’ve stated this in at least one previous blog entry.

(Jeff Berger and Paolo Bruni) The tight integration that DB2 for z/OS has with the System z architecture and the z/OS environment creates a synergy that allows DB2 to exploit advanced z/OS platform functions. This synergy includes the enterprise storage systems.

(Christina Lau, Valentina Birsan and Bhadri Madapusi) This article looks at two new capabilities that were recently added to the IBM SmartCloud: the Image Construction and Composition Tool (ICON) and IBM Business Process Manager images. Together these features can help you develop and deploy your ow

(Willie Favero) If you are interested in improving the performance of your partition REORGs, here’s a code update that should be of interest. All you need to do is stay current on your maintenance and add an additional keyword here and there. Magically, you have better performance.

(Robert Catterall) In part 1 of this three-part series on leveraging Big Memory (i.e., a large z/OS LPAR real storage resource) to enhance DB2 workload CPU efficiency, I focused on getting the most out of a DB2 buffer pool configuration without increasing its size (this by adjusting certain threshol

(Arvind Gupta) The automatic maintenance capabilities of IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows relieves DBAs so they can focus on other vital tasks, such as maximizing performance. This article demonstrates how to configure automatic maintenance capabilities in DB2 for performing database backups, ke

Technical tour of the details behind IBM DB2 10 and IBM InfoSphere Warehouse 10 new product releases as announced on April 3rd. We will cover powerful new features such as: