(Troy Coleman) Last week I mentioned IBM’s free DB2 10 migration planning workshops. IDUG has its own offering for those who will be attending the group’s upcoming conference.

(Paul Ray) This article describes the WebSphere Cast Iron Management API and shows you how to use it manage and monitor a WebSphere Cast Iron environment. The article also shows you how to configure an orchestration to automate the export of a Cast Iron repository, without having to write the code t

(Willie Favero) DB2 comes in two favors, one for z/OS and the other for LUW (Linux, UNIX and Windows). this blog focuses on DB2 for z/OS… at least most of the time. However, there are those times when the LUW side does something so very cool, I have to make mention of it.

(Henrik Loeser) IBM today announced the next version of DB2, DB2 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (the press release is here). If you, like I, worked with the new version already as part of the alpha and beta programs, you couldn’t await talking about the great new features. Some of them are listed

Betty Patterson, Chief Architect of IMS at IBM, talks about the capabilities of IMS and introduces IMS 12.

(Willie Favero) DB2 10 has been great for my DSNZPARM presentation. There were so many new ZPARM keywords delivered with the DB2 10 base release and even more new DSNZPARM keywords showing up in APARs since general release (GA).

In this particular scenario, a support analyst is presented with a situation where all IBM Cognos Power cube data sources are failing after the IBM Cognos BI application was migrated from one physical server to another.

(Doug Henschen) IBM announced a significant upgrade of its DB2 database and supporting InfoSphere software on Tuesday, packing it with performance improvements for both transactional and data warehousing operations.

(Cindy Russell) IBM DB2 Tech Talk: Data Archiving Best Practices is a very intresting overview of factors to consider in governing your data.

(Avinash Jhawar, Pabitra Mukhopadhyay and Ravi SK Sinha) This article shows you how to configure WebSphere Message Broker Hypervisor Edition as a service in a cloud environment, using VMware ESX V4 (a 64-bit x86 processor). Topics include configuring Hypervisor Edition on a virtual machine, implemen