DB2 for z/OS data sharing is well-acknowledged by industry experts for providing the highest availability, and addressing planned and unplanned outages.

(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

(Joo Guan Yap) With a good understanding of the tools and utilities that come with IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), you’ll find the database easier to monitor and administer. In this tutorial, learn about those tools. This is the seventh tutorial in a series of nine tutorials that will help prepar

(Stephane Journot) Disk storage is not cheaper, take place, make noise, so, for large warehouses (or huge volumes database), the cost of the storage become important. IBM DB2 have a solution, with the data compression named “Venom” technology, reducing storage requirements, improving I/O, and provid

(Ted Holt) It is my pleasure to feature a software tool that has proven very valuable to me. It’s called FROG. It runs on a PC and provides an SQL interface to DB2 for i. What’s more, it’s free. Let me show you one way I frequently use it.

(Adrian Mitrea) Virtual cubes are one of the new Cubing Services features in IBM InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7. A virtual cube provides a way to merge different cubes together to allow a single query destination that returns merged results from the cubes that compose it. Virtual cubes can be used to dras

(Willie Favero) Yes, I’m back looking for informational help once again. You all have always done such a great job in the past, so….

(Conor O’Mahony) According to his profile on it.toolbox.com, Lewis Cunningham is an “Oracle ACE, Database Architect and self-professed database geek”. Many people know Lewis as an influential influential voice in the database world. A couple of days ago, Lewis blogged about PL/SQL Anonymous Blocks (

(Gabi Nativ and Michael Fankhauser) IBM InfoSphere Business Glossary enables users to create, manage, and share an enterprise vocabulary and classification system. In version 8.1.1, the Business Glossary team introduced a REST API that makes glossary content easier to consume by enabling the develop

(Troy Coleman) Two weeks ago I noted that IDUG is accepting presentation abstracts for its next North America conference in May 2010. At the time I said that giving a presentation at a conference like IDUG is a great experience. Allow me now to elaborate.