(Kim May) IBM introduced the DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edtion (AESE) in late 2010, bundling Optim tools, compression and replication for high availability and disaster recovery in with the features in DB2 Enterprise Server Edition.

(Troy Coleman) DB2 10 is the most significant release IBM has shipped and this is reflected in its rapid adoption rate. Based on the number of customers I hear from who have either upgraded or say they’re in the process of migrating to DB2 10, I can’t think of another release that’s been so quickly

(Robert Catterall) If you’re a mainframe DB2 person, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of an IBM software offering called DB2 Sort. If your knowledge of DB2 Sort doesn’t extend much beyond "I’ve heard of it," you may have this vague idea that the product speeds up IBM DB2 for z/OS utility sor

(Mohammed Yacoob) IBM InfoSphere DataStage integrates data across multiple high volume data sources and target applications. It integrates data on demand across many systems via a high performance parallel framework, extended metadata management, and enterprise connectivity. This technical tip intro

(Kim May) Frank delivered a terrific summary of the products in the Information Management portfolio at a lunch event at Baltimore’s Cinghiale restaurant earlier this month. Unfortunately, we can’t offer everyone lunch (sorry!) but we will offer a repeat presentation via webinar on April 5th.

(Ember Crooks) I read an article from Craig Mullins on “Working with variable data“. The rest of this post is going to assume you’ve read it, so click through and then come back.

(Ben Thompson and Matthew Golby-Kirk) This series of four tutorials demonstrates the new support for Microsoft .NET in WebSphere Message Broker V8. Part 4 shows you how to use the .NETCompute node for exception handling, using a scenario that builds in complexity as additional exception conditions a

(Willie Favero) If you use LOBs, are considering using LOBs, or are just a little curious about what’s new with LOBs in DB2 10 for z/OS, do I have a webcast reply for you…… Available from the DB2 for z/OS Best Practices website, this is .MOV file of a webcast given by IBM’s Jeff Berger on inline LOB

(Robert Catterall) Here is an interesting situation that exists at a number of DB2 for z/OS sites: an organization is licensed for the IBM DB2 Utilities Suite for z/OS, but opts to use utilities from another vendor for various DB2 database administration tasks (common examples are data load, table s

(Chris Howard) New to IBM InfoSphere® Streams 2.0, the introduction of the metrics component provides runtime access to system and user-defined statistics than can be used to monitor the inner workings of your Streams application. This article outlines the new metrics system and describes how to acc