(Troy Coleman) Recently I was reading the DB2 for Linux, Unix, Windows version 9.7 (DB2 for LUW 9.7) product overview when I noticed a section on deprecated features. What caught my eye was the title, “Control Center tools and DB2 administration server (DAS).” This section says that, starting with D

(Willie Favero) I know, you didn’t even know Workload Manager (WLM) managed buffer pools left, or possibly you didn’t know about this particular function at all. It wasn’t discussed all that much. Although announced with DB2 9 back in March 2007, it wasn’t quite ready for prime time like the rest of

(Shalom Momi Sabag) It has been a while since my last post, but since it was the holiday season, I assumed that nobody was reading blog posts anyway… 🙂

(Willie Favero) They say, all good things must come to an end. This old adage seems so appropriate for the software business. After all the talk about the coolness and usefulness of Optimization Service Center (OSC), it gets deprecated.

(Dave Beulke) As I have talked about in the previous weeks, DB2 Version 9 for z/OS has over 50+ great new performance features. Many of these features can really benefit your standard application performance; improve application response time and overall availability of your systems and data.

(Ericka Chickowski) As pundits ponder how IBM will leverage its acquisition of database security vendor Guardium to add more security features and functionalities to its in-house DB2 databases, now is the time for organizations to re-examine their DB2 security strategies. But many haven’t even tappe

(Hayden Marchant) Explore the new capabilities of the lineage functions of the IBM InfoSphere Metadata Workbench 8.1.2, including how to use extension mappings and data sources in the Metadata Workbench to extend lineage and how to manage them through the command-line interface. This article address

(Robert Catterall) A couple of months ago, I did some DB2 data sharing planning work for a financial services organization. That engagement gave me an opportunity to reflect on how far the technology has come since it was introduced in the mid-1990s via DB2 for z/OS Version 4 (I was a part of IBM’s

(Cynthia D. Sleigh and Iman Johari) Cognos Mashup Service (CMS) is a new Web service that is included as part of the IBM Cognos Software Development Kit. This article introduces CMS and explains its two different interfaces: REST and SOAP. The article shows you some of what you can accomplish with C

(Willie Favero) You might recall that back in November 2009 I published a post (How are you fixed for package space? ) about APAR PK80375 closing. This APAR delivered the the new DB2 function that allows for the DB2 Directory table space SPT01 to be compressed.