(Ember Crooks) Specifies the maximum amount of memory to use for a list of locks within the DB2 database. DB2 stores lock information in-memory in this one location. The locklist is not written to disk.

(Willie Favero) You would be surprised how many times a question comes up about DB2 Accounting Class 2 “Not Accounted Time”. People want to know what that other time is. You know, that time that is not talked about and ends up being unaccounted that makes up the rest of the Class 2 Accounting data.

A client calls IBM Cognos support and indicates one of their IBM Cognos BI servers in a multi-server environment will not start. The support analysts leverages the IBM Cognos BI Diagnostic Tool to gather information to solve the case.

(Elder Ribeiro Lira) Video from DB2’s Got Talent 2012 finalist.

(Robert Catterall) If you are a DB2 for z/OS DBA or systems programmer, chances are that a good bit of what you do is focused on improving the CPU efficiency of your organization’s DB2-accessing application workload.

(Sailaja Bandlamoori and Timmy Nguyen) XenApp Citrix is becoming a common environment for delivering virtual IBM Eclipse-based tools, including IBM Data Studio full client for Windows®, as an on-demand service to any user, anywhere in the industry. There are a few challenges using XenApp. This artic

(Willie Favero) Or should I use the term plan management, or maybe package management, plan stability, or even package stability? This feature has more names than a spy in an Ian Fleming novel. Of course, it doesn’t matter what you call it, the bottom line is this process has to be one of the coo

(Dave Beulke) These days Java systems have grown within the corporate software landscape because they provide a flexible language for running programs on all types of platforms. Unfortunately, the Java language, like any software language, can suffer from bad design, coding and performance.

(Abhilash Usha) This tutorial describes how to develop a simple Java batch application using IBM Rational Application Developer 8.0.2 as the development environment and WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid 8.0.0.1 as the runtime environment. In addition, the application uses the Parallel Job M

(Henrik Loeser) Today, I want to point you to something very basic, something that many of us take for granted: Multi-language support in the DB2 Information Center. When you click on the link in the previous sentence, a new window should open and the DB2 Information Center with a page about its fea