(Craig Mullins) In today’s blog entry we will discuss the basics monitoring and DB2 performance monitors.

(Lori Small) Prepare for the IBM Certification Test 992, IBM WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced V6.1, Business Analysis and Design. Learn about the predefined queries shipped with Modeler, as well as how to create and execute custom queries. You’ll also learn how to generate, print and export repor

(Willie Favero) If you have 8 minutes and 50 seconds available and you have any interest at all in pureQuery, I have an excellent podcast you should give a listen. It happens to be on a WebSphere System z website so it’s not something you might to stumble upon so I thought I would provide a pointer.

(Dave Beulke) Another place to look for performance results is to research the use of compression.

(Deb Jenson) This article provides a brief overview of the functionality and packaging of some of the key Data Studio products from the IBM integrated data management portfolio. The portfolio includes Data Studio Developer and Data Studio pureQuery Runtime, Data Studio Administrator, DB2 High Perfor

(Michael Sansoterra) Once again I am happy to report that IBM has provided us with a wealth of enhancements to DB2 in this monumental V6R1 release. Incidentally, in case you haven’t heard, IBM is now calling our favorite database by the name DB2 for i (formerly known as DB2/400 and DB2 UDB for iSeri

(Beth Pariseau) IBM Corp. today rolled out Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6, adding integration with the DB2 database, sub-file level data deduplication on TSM storage pools, and automated image-level backups of VMware virtual machines to the backup software application. (R)

(Massimiliano Carra) In this article, learn how to implement a basic Microsoft .NET search application using the IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition Web services interface. Besides providing a powerful Java Application Programming Interface that permits developers to integrate its search capabilities in

(Leons Petrazickis) DB2 v9.5 uses the Windows username as the default schema. Unfortunately, it does not support spaces in schema names. Accordingly, usernames – e.g. “Jane Smith” — that have a space can make DB2 unhappy.

There are three main mechanisms within DB2 that allow implementing a database security plan: authentication, authorization, and privileges. These mechanisms differ from those used in SQL Server.