(Willie Favero) My entry today is a short update on what has been happening with the zIIP specialty engine as of the end of June. You may also want to take a look at my APAR update for the zIIP specialty engine (from 6/19/20006) post for additional information on zIIP APARs and the links to my post

(Daniel Martin) IBM Tivoli Monitoring is a family of products designed to monitor the health and performance of your enterprise applications. This article shows you how to access Q Replication monitoring information, how to bring this data into the Tivoli Platform, and how to use Tivoli alerts and s

(Willie Favero) So, you listened. You saved all of your V7 EXPLAIN data so you could compare it to the EXPLAIN output from your Version 8 rebinds. Your plan (no pun intended) should be to have both the old and new access paths (plan table rows) available so you can compare them. Of course, one essen

(Rica Weller, Cleberson Calefi, Kiet Nguyen, Robyn Nostalgi and Rajesh Pericherla) WebSphere for z/OS is a complex product made up of many components, similar to the human body. And, like the human body, WebSphere for z/OS can experience problems that need to be diagnosed and corrected. (R)

(Kim Moutsos) Working in MVS operations for a carpet producer in the early 1990s, Randy Wilson found himself on the third shift, with only four or five real hours of work each night. Some might have found the empty hours hard to fill. But Wilson used them as an opportunity — to read technical manual

(Wei-Dong (Jackie) Zhu, Carol Allen, Patrick Hofleitner and Doris Ming Ming Ngai) This IBM Redbook covers a variety of topics relating to the practical application of Content Manager OnDemand (simply referred to as “OnDemand”) for Multiplatforms Version 8.3 (also known as Version 7.1.2.5), z/OS Vers

(Willie Favero) You’re in V8 compatibility mode (CM) and you believed us when we suggested that you really should rebind your packages to take advantage of all the new optimization delivered in DB2 V8. . But is that really all you need to do? Well, maybe not.

(Chris Eaton) In DB2 v8 it was not possible to recover an entire database (from scratch) just from tablespace level backups. You had to start with at least a full backup image. Now in DB2 9 you can recover a database or even just a part of a database from scratch entirely from tablespace level backu

(Willie Favero) “Packages?” Yes, packages! Even though packages were first delivered way back in the fall of 1991—when DB2 was still called Database 2; all the way back to the delivery of DB2 Version 2 Release 3—there are still questions and misconceptions about how packages work.

(Paolo Bruni, John Iczkovits, Rama Naidoo, Fabricio Pimentel and Suresh Sane) DB2 provides functions to guarantee integrity at the system level and at the application level. From the system point of view, DB2’s integration with zSeries and disk storage architecture is the cornerstone for data in