There are many reasons to clone DB2 systems and refresh table spaces; create test environments, stage data-warehouse loads and offload business processed from production to other environments. Traditional methods are time-consuming, use large amounts of host processing resources and, when copying D

(Dan Burger) A statement of general direction is a fine tonic for IBM Power Systems i users, some of which are confused about IBM’s intentions with the platform. Last week, Ian Jarman, manager of Power Systems software and keynote speaker at the RPG & DB2 Summit gave i-centric attendees a glimpse of

(Thomas Gschwind, Jana Koehler, Janette Wong, Cedric Favre, Wolfgang Kleinoeder, Alexander Maystrenko and Krenar Muhidini) This series walks you through the IBM Pattern-based Process Model Accelerators V2.0 for WebSphere Business Modeler, a set of plug-ins for IBM WebSphere Business Modeler that add

(Craig Mullins) IBM is hosting a free webinar on November 3, 2009, offering a technical preview of the next version of DB2 for z/OS, currently known as DB2 X (but we all know, err, ah, think it will be called DB2 10).

(Lockwood Lyon and Lisa Westcott-Dryer) Applications running with dynamic SQL are ever-increasing. Without some methods to contain the onslaught of queries, performance drops and phone calls increase. What can a DBA do to remain sane and avoid a visit from the company’s vice president?

(Dirk Fechner) The DB2 Design Advisor represents a simple method to identify unused indexes. You can use Design Advisor to analyze a set of SQL statements and their execution frequency. As a result of such an analysis, the Design Advisor returns the following information: –Additional index defin

(Dave Beulke) This week IBM announced DB2’s newest feature, DB2 pureScale. This new feature within the DB2 Family of products represents the next step in overall database performance because of its unlimited capacity, application transparency and continuous availability. The DB2 pureScale feature

(Susan Visser) I know! We’re on a roll here with all the new books that are publishing or about to publish. October seems to be our big month!

(Rosaline Makar, Emad EL-Agouz and Allaa Ibrahim Mostafa) To allow iterative development, cross-product synchronization support has been added to both WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Integration Developer version 6.1.2.

Join IBM for this complimentary teleconference and learn what’s coming in DB2 X for z/OS to support your staff and your business. database administrators will find improvements in databse performance, scalability and availability, with many tasks simplified.