(Fred) It’s fun when somebody crashes a dull party, and very few parties have been more dreary over the past few years than the gathering of open-source monitoring tools that work out of the box with DB2 LUW. After deploying and customizing Nagios for a few of my DB2 customers, I felt the need to wo

(Willie Favero) something borrow, something blue… No, today’s APAR post has nothing to do with weddings… in fact, it has nothing to do with borrowing either. However, I have an “old” APAR, a “really new” APAR, and of course, they are all “Blue”…. see how well this stuff all fits together w

(Xiaomei Wang and Shirley Braley) Concerned about records compliance and legal discovery effectiveness? Challenged by maintaining consistent and reliable access to content items in various repositories? IBM Classification Module Version 8.5 can help you to address these issues. This new IBM Enterpri

(Anson Kokkat) Find out why IBM Rational Data Architect is gaining momentum as a database modeling tool that is optimized for IBM databases, yet also provides functionality to model other major database vendors such as Oracle. Look at alternatives to Oracle Designer, and see how keeping up with Orac

(Willie Favero) In our discussion of DB2 Version 1 Release 2 on Monday, I forgot to mention a significant change in V1R2 that most would have probably never noticed. It was one of those changes you got and had no control over but has improved your DB2 life ever since. It was a little thing called Pl

(Radhesh Kumar) If you are a DB2 DBA, most likely you have already used db2look to extract the DDL from a DB2 database. However, db2look can do more than just extracting the DDL. Sometimes you may want to create a test database similar to production database in order to test your applications and qu

(Rob Williams) Unlike some of the popular open source databases, DB2 supports ANSI windowing functions. Few people actually make use of its support as most people don’t know about it.

(Manoj K Sardana) I was a little busy from past sometime so didn’t get a chance to post anything. There are a lot new things I read from last 1 month. There are some interesting posts from Susan Visser about the availability of the books in India, about the salary survey, about IDUG and some polls.

(Willie Favero) After only 14 months, a new release (DB2 V1 R3) went GA on June 26, 1987. Even in that short period of time, there were lots of changes made to DB2. The GA announcement of DB2 V1.3 was also the end of service (EoS) announcement for DB2 V1.2. V1.2 would go out of service on June 30, 1

(Philip Nelson) I promised you two “cool new features” in my last post. I ran out of time after the first of these, and it has taken me a few days to get round to adding the second : so here it comes.