(Edward J Pring) IBM InfoSphere Streams is designed for large streaming applications that may span many Linux servers. When developing applications for InfoSphere Streams, or if you are just evaluating the product, you may find it more convenient to install it onto a virtual machine. Installing onto

(Troy Coleman) Last week I discussed the real-time statistics tables, where to find them and what information is stored in them.

(Lockwood Lyon) A load test gives the database administrator quite a lot of valuable information and may make the difference between poor and acceptable application performance. Here are some proactive tips to make your IBM DB2 production implementation a success.

(Shan Yu) Representational State Transfer (REST) is the prevailing architecture style for designing distributed Web applications. This article series introduces how to use WebSphere Adapter, WebSphere Integration Developer, and WebSphere Process Server to build RESTful Web services and how to use en

(Keith McDonald) I’m going to interrupt the two-part description of the db2top Memory screen I started last Friday because I need to address something that’s been bothering me about db2top. Having worked on the DB2 for LUW Workload Manager’s statistics functions, I am sensitive to seeing potential m

(Robert Catterall) This is the second of a three-part entry on various factors you could consider in determining how (or whether) DB2 stored procedure technology might be employed in your organization’s application environment. In part one I described some advantages associated with client-side and

(Julian Stuhler) Last month, I covered IBM DB2 10 for z/OS: Justifying the Upgrade , and spoke briefly about the performance enhancements in that release that can help in justifying the upgrade to hard-nosed business execs looking for real return on investment for infrastructure projects.

(Keith McDonald) A well-tuned DB2 for LUW system strikes a careful balance among the various consumers of resources such as CPU, disk, and memory. Applications, utilities, and internal database processes all compete for limited memory resources. The db2top tool can give you insight into your biggest

This demo describes how new integration between Optim Performance Manager Extended Edition and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for Transactions can address the typical issues faced by IT staff when trying to isolate and diagnose a database transaction problem in complex application

(Willie Favero) You’ve listened in on the IBM teleconferences and webinars, you’ve heard the presentations at the conferences and user group meetings, and you’ve read all of the articles. You are now convinced that putting your next data warehouse on the mainframe (IBM System z) is without a doubt t