Why is System z essential to your business?Roads are old.  In antiquity roads were used for conquest and commerce.  They stretched from Rome to Hadrian’s Wall in Great Britain.  The Silk Road, comprising trade routes that knitted together...

Issue with Online Reorgs on Unformatted Event Monitor TablesThis is an issue I’m currently seeing on about 2 out of 3 9.7 databases. First, a little background. My reorg script determines if reorgs are needed using reorgchk formulas, and the last couple... ...

SmarterQuestions Video on Oracle to DB2 MigrationMy colleague, Kim May, and I were interviewed at last year’s IBM Information on Demand Conference (IOD) regarding an Oracle to DB2 migration project on which The Fillmore Group was engaged in...

DBA Best Practices?What are the things that you do, or want to do, on a daily basis to manage your database infrastructure? This blog entry is going to be a little different than my regular entries. I’m going to...

How to cut your WebLogic license and maintenance costs in half?I recently worked with an Oracle customer in Northern Europe helping them to replace WebLogic with WebSphere. You might ask why would a Fortune 500 company with significant existing investment of...

Managing a Virtual EnvironmentIBM has a facility that establishes performance-monitoring parameters through a set of profile tables. These parameters are activated and deactivated through the START PROFILE command....

DB2 LUW Performance Analysis and Tuning Workshop at IDUG NA, Denver, COIn 2010 and 2011, the "DB2 LUW Performance Analysis and Tuning Workshop" drew top attendance numbers in North America, Australia, and EMEA. For 2012, this IDUG Ed Seminar has been updated and is being offered again as session 212. Click Here for Details. THIS SEMINAR WILL NOT BE OFFERED AGAIN after 2012! This is your FINAL OPPORTUNITY to reap the rich benefits of this class!In this full day class, you will receive over three dozen SQL...

IDUG Denver Early Bird RegistrationFor those of you planning to attend this year’s IDUG Conference in Denver in May (Monday, May 14 through Friday, May 18, 2012), the early bird registration was officially opened today.   With...

Three Ideas to Maintain Database Availability and PerformanceOrganizational demands for application database availability, reliability and performance for petabytes of big data and 100s of billions of rows of information continue to rise. These trends are ramping up at a faster rate as web, mobile, social, unstructured and streaming transaction and...

DB2's GOT TALENT 24 FEB 10am CST - GREAT TOPICS!Please join The DB2Night Show™ this Friday 24 Feb 2012 at 10am CST for our final Contestant Auditions Show! Seven contestants will compete for three finalist positions and the topics are... ...