(Pierre Berlandier) This article addresses a recurring question for the solution architect using a Business Rule Managment System (BRMS): how should I structure the rule repository and then carve out the rulesets from this repository in order to support the needed rule services? We explore different

(Leons Petrazickis) Data Studio is a free utility for managing DB2 databases. It has SQL and XQuery syntax highlighting, code validation, and tools for helping you build stored procedures and various other database objects. You can use it to explore a database by drilling down through schemas, table

(Conor O’Mahony) Last week, at an event that IBM hosted for analysts and press, there were some very interesting Twitter messages from John Rymer, Merv Adrian, and Carl Olofson, including:

The video demonstrates how DB2 pureScale ensures continuous availability by instantly recovering from member failures by automatically routing workloads to surviving members.

(Keith McDonald) The first time I used db2top’s Dynamic SQL screen, I tried the ‘X’ key to switch to extended mode and had no idea what I had just done. Everything was reordered, hash values seemed to completely change, and the values in the Num Execution column shot upward. Eventually, I realized w

(Sean Esson and Maksym Petrenko) IBM introduces DB2 Express-C for Lotus Foundations, which adds a fast and scalable database product to the Lotus Foundations family. This article provides an overview of the Lotus Foundations architecture and describes how the DB2 Add-on fits into this architecture.

(Robert Catterall) Over the past few weeks, I’ve had a number of interesting discussions with people from various organizations on the subject of DB2 stored procedures. These conversations have generally involved questions pertaining to the use of stored procedures in a DB2 environment.

(Scott Hayes) Did you miss today’s episode of The DB2Night Show™? We had a very special guest on the show – Adam Storm, Software Developer, DB2 Kernel Development, IBM Toronto Lab. Adam gave our virtual studio audience a great presentation on recent updates to DB2 LUW Autonomic Memory and the Self T

(Rajiv Madassery) This tutorial will provide step-by-step instructions to help you develop a business process application and then use Business Space powered by WebSphere V7 to frontend this application in managing and executing the process. The demo application will show a scenario involving a huma

(Keith McDonald) In the first post about the Tables screen, we examined the data that is available on small screens between 80 and 140 columns wide. In today’s post, you will learn about the gauge and aggregates that appear for larger screens. On such screens, you will be able to see the balance of