(Robert Andrews) When you create a dashboard in DB2 Web Query, it often contains a combination of graphs, reports, and, optionally, selection criteria. Because of changing criteria or business loads, the size required to display these reports changes. By default, Web Query uses fixed locations, whic

If you’re looking to upgrade to DB2 z/OS version 9 or already have but want to get more from your investment then book some time in your diary to attend these upcoming IBM Webcast events:

(Ya Xiao) This article describes message format differences between different versions of WebSphere MQ, and discusses changes to messages by WebSphere MQ during the message queuing process. The article is for developers who work with WebSphere MQ and want to understand the evolution of MQ message fo

(Dave Beulke) With all those year-end jobs running and the system already at 100% utilization there are not too many options for getting things to run faster.

(Willie Favero) Since DB2 V1.2, you’ve been EXPLAINing SQL, loading lots of interesting information in the DB2 plan tables. Since that first appearance of EXPLAIN, the plan tables have both grown in number of tables and the number of columns in each table. New columns were introduced in the plan tab

(Paolo Bruni, Marcelo Antonelli, Davy Goethals, Armin Kompalka and Mary Petras) IBM continues to enhance the functionality, performance, availability, and ease of use of DB2 utilities. (pdf)

(Scott Hayes) Do you have a table that has statistical mood swings? Sometimes the table has a few rows, and sometimes it has many? Or would you like to strongly encourage the DB2 optimizer to use available indexes? VOLATILE isn’t a nice description for a person, but you can assign this label to a mo

(Shalom Momi Sabag) In this post I would like to present to you a strange scenario involving DB2 space reuse which I was not able to reconstruct in a test system.

(Brien H. Muschett) Representational State Transfer (REST) is an important Web 2.0 technology that has become a popular alternative to other Web-based services, such as SOAP-based Web services and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). Many Internet-facing companies provide REST-based services; a common scenar

(Willie Favero) It’s a brand new year and it’s a brand new decade; 2010. I would like you to kick 2010 off by helping me (actually you’ll be helping the IBM Software Group) make our products and solutions along with your experiences using our products and solution a great thing by participating in a