(Willie Favero) No, we’re not talking about Dolly the sheep. And yes, I know that isn’t all that funny, but it’s the best I can do from a hotel room with all the noise going on tonight. What I’m actually going to talk about this evening are the DB2 9 for z/OS cloned tables, a feature that will be ex

(Christian Matthys, David Bright, Carol Davis, Fabio Hasegawa, Philippe Jachimcsyk, Steve Lockwood, Thomas Marien, Julien Maussion and Stefan Ulrich) In order to improve the performance and operational efficiency of businesses worldwide, a customer using SAP wanted to establish a global business pro

(Rich Seeley) The popular image of a programmer hunched over a keyboard in a windowless cinder block bunker with pizza boxes being shoved under the door is very 1984 in today’s service-oriented architecture world. (R)

(Willie Favero) Are you curious about the possible performance improvements in DB2 9 for z/OS? Then I have just the thing for you. Akira Shibamiya, performance guru with DB2 for z/OS development, IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory, has a presentation out on the IBM DB2 support web page that you will want

(Vincent McBurney) Looks like the Information Server 8.0.1 is now available for AIX, Linux and Windows and can be downloaded from the IBM website.

(Vincent McBurney) IBM has been trailing Oracle in the data warehouse market share for years now. To make IBM products more attractive they have just put some shizzel into the DB2 warehouse offerings.

(Lisa A. Seacat) In Part 2 of this series, we’ll describe the SCA components that are generated when you migrate WebSphere InterChange Server collaboration objects to WebSphere Process Server.

(Damon Anderson and Bernie O’Connor) This case study of Anixter’s migration to DB2 for z/OSVersion 8 is presented largely in chronological order. It contains informationon our training, planning, risk identification and mitigation, installation, configuration, testing and implementation. We hope our

(Chris Eaton) Here is a very fast and very low overhead way to look at lock wait situations in DB2 using the db2pd tool. You can of course find locking information from the snapshot monitors or from the administrative views I described previously. But for those that like something very light weight

(Jignesh K. Shah) Every DBA or System Administrations or Software Developers find some need of “drilling-down” to the call-flow of how an application is interacting with the Operating System beneath it.