(Susan Visser) After a long delay, I can finally announce that this long awaited book is about to publish and you’ll be able to buy it in time for the IDUG conference. The publisher has provided a 10% discount on all pre-orders. If you’re attending IDUG Denver this year, make sure you take the pre

(Henrik Loeser) The SQL standard offers many functions, some very useful are defined in part 14 of the SQL standard, “ISO/IEC 9075-14:2011 Part 14: XML-Related Specifications”. That part 14 was published 2003, so it is rather old. However, one of the gems in SQL/XML (the name for that XML addition t

(Ember Crooks) This post is specific to WebSphere Commerce. If you’ve always assumed that stagingprop copied the whole row and every change, I’ve found an execption. Stagingprop does not copy the OPTCOUNTER column.

(Shenfu (Mike) Fan) WebSphere Business Events V7 provides three methods to leverage a data source to enrich data after an event is received or before an action is sent: expression SQL, mapped keys, and mapped expression.

(Susan Visser) This book will publish in May this year, just in time for IDUG Denver, and for the first time, will publish under the IBM Press imprint:

(samkumar) I will share the story of my 2nd chance at DB2 has talent… A better experience and managed the time well… But everyone was at their best in that episode and for a moment I thought have a got a wildcard entry in final round of DB2 has talent…

(Ember Crooks) This is a new blog post format I’m introducing. I’m declaring Wednesday Parameter Day. That means each Wednesday, I’ll pick a parameter and cover it in excruciating detail. Some of the details will come straight out of the info center, but I’ll add my own experiences and insight geare

(Dave Beulke) The world witnessed the Microsoft Azure cloud outage earlier this week documented in this eWeek article on cloud computing , the outage was attributed to human error associated with leap year settings. Problems and changes within any infrastructure are inevitable, even within cloud com

This document is meant to supplement the Security and Administration Guide and Architecture and Deployment Guide which are part of the IBM Cognos BI product documentation. It will explain the concept of Dispatcher routing including load balancing and Advanced Routing.

(Susan Visser) Big Data can mean a lot of things to a lot of people; but one thing we’re sure of, it’s the hottest thing to hit the IT landscape. In this chat you’ll start with an introduction to Big Data so we’re all on common ground as to what it is, how to spot it, and what the opportunities […]