(Roger Bacalzo) This article discusses the storage mechanisms of IBM FileNet Content Manager and describes how to effectively use storage areas and storage policies with IBM FileNet P8 applications. It also discusses storage farming strategies to distribute I/O load and to provide for continuous sto

We’ve all done it. You see a great new feature in DB2 and jump headling into using it without fully appreciating all of the implications. Here’s a case in point:

(Henrik Loeser) When you enjoying a regular life, over time you usually accumulate a lot of stuff. Some (most?) of that stuff is rarely used, but you have to dust off or clean it anyway, you somehow pay for keeping it through shelves or cabinets you need, through rent or paying off credits.

(Diana Lau and Ying Sun) Using a customer relationship management (CRM) example, this article series shows you how to create a composite business application (CBA) in Business Space powered by WebSphere, enhance it in Business Modeler, and finally implement it in Integration Developer and WebSphere

(Robert Catterall) In the summer of 2008, I posted a blog entry on page-fixing DB2 buffer pools, a feature introduced with DB2 for z/OS Version 8. A recent discussion I had with a client about buffer pool page-fixing brought to light two aspects of this performance tuning option that, I believe, are

(Keith McDonald) Before we can examine the various interactive screens of data that make up db2top, we need to become familiar with one of the ways these data are presented – gauges.

(Hermann Voellinger) Learn how the process of scoping can yield business objects that will guide you to developing a meaningful logical data model. This tutorial uses IBM Enterprise Model Extender with IBM InfoSphere Data Architect to illustrate the scoping process.

(Willie Favero) Yup, you read that correctly. It’s never to early to start planning for your upgrade to the bigger and better DB2 for z/OS. There is another new release of DB2 on the horizon, DB2 10 for z/OS. With every new DB2 comes you migration/fallback PTFs; that stuff you apply to your existing

(Susan Visser) Back by popular request, the DB2Night Show is doing another CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS episode wherein a live performance health check will be performed for a real DB2 LUW production database. If you would like to see how this works, watch the replay of Episode #9.

(Krzysztof Dol) As productive databases containing important information systems rapidly grow larger and larger, automated space management becomes more and more important. Although Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) does not currently offer an integrated space management feature, it does already include