(Johanna Angani and Sascha Laudien) When the data you’re monitoring gets too large to be easily displayed with pure WebSphere Business Monitor dimensions functionality without degrading performance and usability, you need a solution to limit the data. In this article, you’ll learn how to implement T

(Willie Favero) Here’s an interesting APAR that both my DB2 for z/OS Version 8 and DB2 9 for z/OS friends should be interested in. APAR PK62804 fixes a potential problem with a poor access path being picked for range and BETWEEN predicates due to a not that accurate filter factor.

(Fernando Echeveste) If your application inserts a large volume of rows into DB2 for i tables, the following features found on IBM i can influence the performance of your application:

(David Enyeart, Art Majtenyi and Vani Bhartipudi) In this series, you’ll learn about the dimensional analysis capabilities of WebSphere Business Monitor V6.2, including how to model your data to fully exploit the powerful dimensional analysis capabilities of Monitor dashboards.

(Craig Mullins) Lock escalation is the promotion of a lock from a row, page or LOB lock to a table space lock because the number of page locks that are concurrently held on a given resource exceeds a preset limit.

(Antonio Cangiano) Now that Mac OS X 10.6 is out, it’s time to leave the world of 32 bit computing behind. The pre-installed Ruby interpreter will run in 64 bit mode by default, so you may need to pay attention when installing some C-based gems.

(Matthew J. Margan) This tutorial is the sixth 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 with Part 3 of the

How many times have I asked customers for the DB2 diagnostic log file (db2diag.log) only to be told “it’s too large to send” or “it’s taking too long to open.” This is because the DB2 diagnostic files have been append only since time memorial, their growth only restricted by the maximum space availa

(Roger Miller) Customers are migrating more quickly to DB2 9 this year. The DB2 9 value is helpful for most customers, and the migration experience has been positive. Migration is a broad topic, so I’ll emphasize some keys to success, point to many resources, emphasize some important points and pr

(Stefan Abraham, Simone Daum and Benjamin G. Leonhardi) In the first two articles of this series, you learned about IBM InfoSphere Warehouse text analysis capabilities, how to use regular expressions and dictionaries to extract information from text, and how to publish the results with a Cognos repo