(Whei-Jen Chen, Jason Chan, Olaf Mueller, Malcolm Singh and Tapio Väättänen) Server virtualization technologies are becoming more popular to help efficiently utilize resources by consolidating servers. IBM, the first company that developed and made available the virtual technology in 1966, offers ad

(Craig S. Mullins) Although robust performance and administration tools are probably the best solution for gathering information about your DB2 subsystems and databases, you can gain significant insight into your DB2 environment simply by using the DISPLAY command. There are multiple variations of t

(Nik Kesic and Kendrew Peacey) Rapidly evolving client needs are driving advances in information technology that are making the world seem smaller and flatter. One of the basic underlying requirements of these needs is access to information anywhere, on any device, at any time. The U2 UniObjects for

Are you unsure which XML indexes you should create for your SQL/XML, XQuery workload? IBM XML Index Advisor for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows recommends the best set of indexes for your workload within your disk constraint. For DB2 pureXML, the tool outputs the DDL statements to create the recomm

(Robert Catterall) Last week I was again teaching a DB2 for z/OS database administration course, this time for the half of the client’s DBA team that minded the store while their colleagues attended the prior week’s class. As I mentioned in my last blog entry, the organization had recently completed

(Hyen-Vui (Henry) Chung, Charles Le Vay and Salim Zeitouni) This series describes how to use the IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1 Feature Pack for Web Services Service Endpoint Interface samples to achieve interoperability with Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation. Part 2 shows yo

(Brian Prince) Xkoto releases a new version of its GridScale software for IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server with new clustering technology. The company’s technology is also available on Amazon EC2, a move that could help organizations overcome barriers to running in the cloud, officials say.

We are listing below 50 Most Commonly Asked Interview Questions and Answers in DB2 Mainframe. The Questions are collected from various Interview Sources.

(Henrik Loeser) [Seems like it is benchmark day today] Version 2.0 of the TPoX benchmark (Transaction Processing over XML) has been released. In an earlier post I explained what TPoX is and why it exists.

(Amit D. Vashishtha and Qian Tang) This tutorial is the eighth in a series of nine tutorials designed to help you become familiar with all the different aspects of IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) and help you get ready for the IDS Fundamentals certification exam. In this part, which corresponds wi