Best DB2 Articles and News

Have you ever wished that DB2 had a feature that would save your company money, or perhaps make your job easier? IDUG is now starting a requirements process that will give you a stronger voice when communicating new ideas to IBM. This process will allow you to submit requirements to IDUG and have the IDUG Premier Membership vote to set a priority prior to sending them to IBM. Simply login to your member account and click on Product Enhancement Requirements in the left hand column to find out more.

Previously I posted about the basics of Backup in DB2 (part 1, part 2 and part 3). Now I’ll write about some recovery basics. I’m going to assume that you are using log archiving (otherwise you must

Redpaper, published: Mon, 21 Jul 2008

Jupiter was a joint project between IBM® and SAP®.

Redpaper, published: Thu, 17 Jul 2008

This IBM® Redpaper provides information about exploiting client load balancing and fail over capabilities across a DB2® data sharing group or a subset of the group members.

Redpaper, published: Mon, 14 Jul 2008

In this IBM® Redpaper, after some introductory background information on packages, we discuss the CPU utilization by packages related to two situations: when a small number of short-running SQL statements out of many SQL statements in a large package are executed and when a set of short-running SQL statements out of many different packages are executed.

Draft Redbook, last updated: Thu, 10 Jul 2008

- Creating cubes for fast access and multidimensional data analysis
- Getting more from your data warehouse - faster
- Alphablox, Cognos, and Microsoft Excel clients

Formerly known as DB2 Warehouse, InfoSphere Warehouse enables a unified, powerful data warehousing environment.

Redbook, published: Mon, 7 Jul 2008

- IBM InfoSphere DataStage overview
- Retail industry scenario
- IBM Information Server setups

IBM Information Server is a revolutionary new software platform that helps organizations derive more value from the complex heterogeneous information spread across their systems.