(Willie Favero) Testing for RSU1001 is now complete. It contains PE resolutions or HIPER/Security/Integrity/Pervasive PTFs and their associated requisites and supersedes through December 2009.

(Chen Wang, Zhuo Shao and Feng Feng Liang) In the framework of information integration, IBM InfoSphere Federation Server provides a flexible solution for integrating large numbers of heterogeneous data sources and consistent service as a whole.

(Rakesh Dash, Bernard Goelen, Vasfi Gucer, Rajesh K Jeyapaul, Sunil Kamath, Naveen K Bharatha, Michael Kwok, Anupama Padmanabhan, Punit Shah, Basker Shanmugam, Sweta Singh, Amar Thakkar and Adriana Zubiri) This IBM Redbooks presents a best practices guide for DB2 and InfoSphere Warehouse performance

(Keith McDonald) In today’s post, I look at using the -i option to control the rate at which db2top issues snapshots.

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

(Robert Catterall) Last week, I attended a 1-day IBM System z “Technology Summit” education event in Atlanta. It was a multi-track program, and the DB2 for z/OS track (“Track 2”) was excellent, in terms of both content and quality of presentation delivery (and it was FREE — check out the remaining

(Julian Stuhler) So, after many months of anticipation and “technology preview” presentations at various conferences, IBM have finally announced the start of the beta process for the new version of DB2 for z/OS. The product that went under the cunning codename of “DB2 X” has today broken cover as….D

(Georgiana Avram and Swetha Neelakanta) IBM Content Integrator (ICI) provides function that enables integrating content, such as documents and images, from different content repositories on different platforms. While ICI itself can be installed on different platforms, this article outlines the steps

(Troy Coleman) The Halloween Problem is the name given when a database update operation causes a change to the physical location of a row, potentially allowing the row to be processed in an infinite loop. See this wikipedia entry for more.

(Frank Fillmore) As you know, I work with IBM’s Q Replication technology – a lot. Q Replication functionality is delivered in InfoSphere Replication Server. The challenges are amplified when working on DB2 for z/OS with *really* large tables. One financial institution at which I am working has ta