(Matthias Nicola) If you are using DB2 on the z/OS platform and haven’t had a chance yet to explore its pureXML features, consider attending the DB2 for z/OS pureXML Hands-on Lab at this year’s DB2 Users Group conference (IDUG).

(Marc Fasbinder) This article describes improvements in WebSphere Integration Developer V7 that include the installation and getting started process, the Patterns Explorer, the different editors, the help system, and other new features and functions.

(Rebecca Bond) With IBM DB2 9.7’s new compatibility and enablement features, DBAs tasked with moving Oracle databases to DB2 will find out-of-the-box “enablement” functionality that streamlines tasks and fast tracks time to completion.

(Keith McDonald) Today’s db2top screen is a very useful one for tracking down locking problems. You can use it to find lock waiters, lock holders and follow the chain from waiter to holder to diagnose the source of your long lock wait times.

(Ute Baumbach, Anshul Dawra, Kevin Beck, Randy Horman and Kathryn Zeidenstein) Optim Performance Manager for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows 4.1 is a major step forward in the database monitoring capabilities that were previously provided in DB2 Performance Expert for Linux, UNIX and Windows.

(Troy Coleman) If you’re new to DB2 for z/OS, you may have only heard about the real-time statistics tables. But where are they?

(Julian Stuhler) In an effort to make this blog a popular source for great technical information while attempting to keep it interesting, I try to occasionally get a “guest blogger” to write a post for me. Today’s post is just such a blog entry.

(Cynthia M. Saracco) Learn how to integrate business-critical XML data into your data warehouse using IBM InfoSphere Warehouse Design Studio and DB2 9.7 pureXML. This two-part article series provides step-by-step instructions for using pureXML as both a source and target data source for extract, tra

(david t) This video is a brief overview and demo of InfoSphere Replication Server’s scalability. It highlights the positive effect scalability has on maintaining low latency of data in target databases.

(Bill Langston) Analytics and business intelligence (BI) are center stage in IBM’s software and consulting strategy. Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of the IBM Software Group, recently said IBM views the broad analytics marketplace as a multi-billion-dollar business opportunit