(Jiang Lu, Wilfred Jamison and Yuan Zhao) The WebSphere Business Services Fabric Industry Content Packs (Fabric ICPs) are a set of prebuilt accelerator assets for business process management (BPM). The content packs supports a set of industry verticals including Healthcare, Insurance, Product Lifecy

Uncle Fred always said, “There’s more than one way to milk a goat.” And there is certainly more than one way to tune DB2. But what is the most effective approach for your organization? Given the typically tight budgets in IT today, what tuning strategy will give you the most bang for your buck? (R)

(Rebecca Bond) In keeping with the Olympic theme, I have decided to hold my own Audit Log Olympic event.

(Sreeni Paidi and Sam Marino) This technical guide describes the process of enabling a PostgreSQL database application to operate under IBM DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. It addresses the differences between PostgreSQL and DB2, both in functionality and syntax, and provides the details needed

(Dave Beulke) Within the IBM Z Summit road show that was recently in Washington DC, the DB2 presentations highlighted a number of DB2 utilities improvements. All of these DB2 utilities improvements are integrated into the new DB2 10 but there were many that can be incorporated into DB2 9 and some ev

(Keith McDonald) In today’s post, you’ll see how to use the -a command line option to filter out inactive objects from your db2top output.

This three-part demo series introduces you to some of the features in Optim Development Studio available to develop a Java application that uses pureQuery annotated methods. The demo series uses the GSDB sample database, which is the sales database for a fictional company called Great Outdoors. In t

(Willie Favero) Over the last year I’ve been getting questions about the “other” EXPLAIN tables. The questions have ranged from “What are they?”, and “How do I create them” to “Where did they come from” and “What do I use them for?”. We so often make the assumption that everyone just knows the answe

(Keith McDonald) The -b option allows you to run db2top in “background mode”. In today’s post, we will examine what it means to run db2top in background mode and sample the various sub-options that let you customize background mode to your liking.

(Willie Favero) We (IBM) are great at presenting the value of DB2. We know DB2 pretty well, and tend to do a fairly good job of explaining the feature/functions of a new release, how to migrate to that new release, how to tune it, etc… you know, all of that good stuff. However, no matter how good