(Ember Crooks) I’ve actually been hating db2haicu lately. I had 3 different environments where I had to set it up over the course of about 2 weeks, and none of them went simply and smoothly. As of the writing of this post, I’ve managed to get one working by myself and one working with the help of on

This document is intended to provide a troubleshooting methodology which incorporates publically available utilities to diagnose and resolve an issue identified within a specific use case.

(Vijay Sitaram) It seems like yesterday when we took the wraps of DB2 V9.7 for LUW. I admit it is a kid in the candy store moment every time I get my hands on a newer version of DB2. The new features and enhancements in this new release address the needs of our business, directly improving availabil

Chris Eaton of IBM discusses why you should consider migrating from Oracle to DB2.

(Charles Le Vay and Thomas Gissel) The 7.1.1 release of IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale introduces an additional in-memory model for elastic caching called IBM eXtremeMemory, which enables you to utilize the system memory outside of the Java heap as elastic cache. This allows for smaller Java heap sizes

(Frank Fillmore) The recording of April 5, 2012 webinar “IBM 2012 Information Management Product Strategy and Portfolio Overview” is located here.

(samkumar) So I am back with some tips to improve insert performance… I am wondering why I did not choose this for my 2nd chance @ db2night show’s DB2 has talent…

(Frank Fillmore) The recording of the April 5, 2012 webinar “DB2 AESE – Why You Should Consider It” is located here.

(Willie Favero) First one; a DB2 supplied stored procedure could flood your dynamic statement cache with SQL. If you rely on the statement cache to minimize dynamic bind times, this one could be a biggie… after all, the statement cache is a wrap around buffer. When all the space is used up, it j

In this scenario, a support analyst is asked by a customer how to easily and quickly update an image path found in several reports. This scenario is resolved by using the Dynamic Report Specification Updater Diagnostic utility.