(Vikram S. Khatri) This article presents a very simple and powerful tool that enables applications from Oracle to be run on IBM DB2 Version 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. The tool can also be used to move data from various other database management systems to DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and

(Curt Cotner) Our team blog coordinator has been getting on me about posting to kick off the new year and to reflect a bit on how things went last year. So let me try to do that as concisely as possible.

This video highlights how easily and instantly you can scale your workloads by simply adding a member to the DB2 pureScale cluster. It also shows how quickly DB2 pureScale recovers in case of a member failure.

(Troy Coleman) The DB2 Version 8 Administration Guide (page 54) introduces and defines the different DB2 index types.

(Conor O’Mahony) As many of you know, the features and functions in the mainframe version of DB2 (DB2 for z/OS) and the distributed version (DB2 for Linux, Unix, and Windows) have been converging for a number of years.

(Geoffrey Beers) In this document we discuss source control management (SCM) procedures in relation to WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) v6.2. We leverage the team development capabilities of WID and Eclipse using Subversion as the mechanism for remote source control management.

(Willie Favero) Over years I have received numerous request for information about learning the mainframe. Sometimes it comes from someone fresh out of university, occasionally it’s a question who has been working IT for a few years and is thinking of a possible career on the System z (the official n

This screencast demonstrates how easy it is to install DB2 pureScale on a cluster of servers.

(Paul Zikopoulos and Chris Eaton) In october 2009, IBM announced a new technology, primarily aimed at online transaction processing (OLTP) scale-out clusters, called IBM DB2 pureScale. DB2 pureScale is a new feature that provides scaleout active-active services for IBM DB2 running on AIX on Power Sy

(Scott Hayes) IBM Data Management Magazine Q1 2010 arrived today and I was excited to find an article on Unleashing the value of Solid State Drives. Of course, I was thrilled to see DBI’s new ad as well (grin). The article puts forth several good ideas about I/O tuning and begs for greater details.