(Troy Coleman) The introduction of pureXML in DB2 9 for z/OS gave administrators a way to store well-formed XML documents in their hierarchical form and retrieve all or portions of these documents.

This article shows you how to implement the new WebSphere MQ V7 multi-instance queue manager feature on Linux. It provides high availability without using an HA Coordinator, by automatically switching to a standby server if the active server fails. The active and standby servers are multiple insta

(Richard P. King) The new IBM InfoSphere Streams transport that uses IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging provides access to InfiniBand communication links. These offer much higher throughput than, for example, 1Gb ethernet, but this higher throughput is not always achieved in practice, for a vari

(Robert Catterall) Do you use EXPLAIN output when you’re analyzing the performance of a query in a DB2 for z/OS environment? I hope so. If you do, you might be one of those who likes to retrieve access plan information by querying the PLAN_TABLE into which DB2 inserts rows when a SQL statement is EX

(Willie Favero) Yes, another addendum.. What can I say, I like the word…. err, I mean I like keeping things as complete as possible.

(Suman Kalia and Kevin Quan) A key issue during development and maintenance is “what-if” analysis: if you change an artifact, what other artifacts must you change to prevent errors and preserve consistency? The new WebSphere Message Broker V7 impact analysis feature has the answers.

(Radim Kolar) If you need to understand DB2 licensing, there is an excellent series of articles on IBM Developerworks written by Paul C. Zikopoulos.

(Dino Quintero, Bruno Alves, Thanh Lam, Sudipto Pal and Liviu Rosca) This IBM Redbooks publication addresses topics to leverage the virtualization strengths of the IBM Power platform to solve customer’s system resource utilization challenges, and maximize systems’ throughput and capacity.

(Paul Flores, Neeraj Singh and Yongli An) The Rapid Deployment Package (RDP) for IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server (MDM) solution addresses the needs of clients in the first phase of implementing initial load solutions. Using MDM, clients need to perform initial and delta loads, typically

(Willie Favero) At least from me… (smile)