(Willie Favero) When I get distracted, I get really distracted; for months sometimes. I was trying to pop these steps back into DB2 history off close together, all grouped over a few weeks. I guess I missed that plan big time. So, I’m back attempting to finish my little history lesson. After all, DB

(Vincent Petrillo and Brian Travers) Learn how to use the IBM Data Studio Administration Console for health and availability monitoring. Follow the generation of three simulated real-world server problem situations, see how the health and availability capabilities surface these situations, then use

(Craig S. Mullins) Real Time Statistics (RTS) have been available for several years now, but they are still only nominally implemented. Given all of the benefits that can be accrued by using RTS, it is flabbergasting that they have not been more widely embraced by DB2 administrators.

(Mark McConaughy) This article discusses practically everything a directory administrator needs to know about the archival logging method required to enable online backups. If you want to do online backups of your directory, you must configure archival logging of the database transaction logs. But a

(Roger Sanders) Spring is here, and daylight is lasting longer. Why not use the extra time to prepare for the DB2 9 DBA certificiation exam? Here are more sample certification questions from the book DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Database Administration: Certification Study Guide, published by

(Claudio Morgia) IBM WebSphere Registry and Repository (hereafter called Service Registry) enables you to store, organize and search technical documents about services, their relationships and their life cycles, in a governed manner. Service Registry is based on layered database technology that stac

(Troy Coleman) The word “fallback” can bring fear and stress to DB2 systems programmers who haven’t taken the time to plan the steps needed to return to DB2 Version 8 after migrating the catalog and directory to DB2 V9 compatibility mode. It’s rare, but if you experience a severe application or perf

(Robert Catterall) Over the past decade or so, DB2 disaster recovery (DR) has come a long way, especially where the mainframe platform is concerned. At least the DB2 for Linux/UNIX/Windows (LUW) folks had log shipping, which enabled organizations to get the backup data server at the DR site up and r

(Alex Woodie) Industrial Strength Software, a provider of programmer utilities and change management tools based in Illinois, recently introduced two tools designed to help System i shops get the most performance out of DB2/400. The new tools, called the DBAnalyzer (DBA) and DBOptimizer (DBO), work

(Ioana Ursu, Aakash Bordia and Eileen Lin) XML Federation in WebSphere Federation Server Version 9.5 allows you to seamlessly integrate with remote XML data from XML documents and DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2) sources enabled with pureXML technology. Not only can you use the SQL/XML and XQu