(Ray Willoughby) Hi! It’s been a while since I posted an entry, and with the announcement of DB2 Optimization Expert for z/OS V2.1, I wanted to give you some highlights of what this release offers.

(Dirk Fechner) Ease the process of DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows data movement using the DB2 LOAD utility’s FROM CURSOR option. This article introduces the LOAD FROM CURSOR feature and provides usage samples for two interfaces, the Command Line Processor and the ADMIN_CMD stored procedure.

(Robert Catterall) Quite a few years ago (probably 15 or more), I sat in a hotel meeting room during an IT conference and listened to a presentaion on mainframe DB2 performance delivered by IBM’s Akira Shibamiya (still a DB2 performance guru extraordinaire). It was a typical Akira presentation, full

(Thomas Matthae) Learn how to use the ClusterIT utility, which is shipped with Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 10, IDS 11.10, and IDS 11.50, to easily set up an Informix server in a Microsoft Cluster Environment. This article walks you, step-by-step, through the procedure with explanations and the mea

(Roger Sanders) Whether you’re trying to fit certification into the last few weeks of this year or looking ahead to certify in 2009, take a spin through these sample questions. Each set of questions (and the detailed answers) will help you prepare for DB2 9 DBA testing. Once you’ve mastered these, b

(Willie Favero) This is one teleconference you want to make sure you mark on your calendar and get your registration in for as soon as possible. It’s an opportunity to find out more about stored procedures used as web services. The really cool part is that one of the best IBMers on the topic (if not

(Willie Favero) Today is a my first APAR Friday post for 2009. Unfortunately, because of last minute things to clean up at work yesterday before I knocked off for the day and my wife and daughters wanting burgers for dinner, I didn’t get a chance to finish this and get it posted on physical Friday.

(Willie Favero) I’ve noticed that lately lots of questions about upgrading to DB2 Version 8 are popping up again. We spend so much of our time (IBM time) promoting and discussing the most current release of DB2, DB2 9, that we sometime overlook the fact that we still have a lot of customers in the p

(Ute Baumbach) Hi, I belong to the DB2 Performance Expert development team, and one of my roles is to support customers and help them to get the most out of the product.

(Stephen Cox and Ben Thompson) This article shows you how to model and graphically map data in a database using WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.1.0.3 and WebSphere Message Broker V6.1. The article describes a data replication scenario that uses both products to select and insert data at two geo