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Information Management best practices

Best practices

Best practices

Make your job easier, achieve your business goals more efficiently, learn techniques that work with other customers, and gain valuable knowledge directly from the experts.

Introduction

These best practices present advice on the optimal way to use a variety of IBM® Information Management products. They include presentations and articles authored by leading experts in IBM's development and consulting teams and are designed to give you practical advice to improve the value of your IBM data servers and data integration products.

DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

On the Best practices for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows page, you'll find the following best practices articles:

DB2 for z/OS

On the DB2 for z/OS best practices page, you'll find the following best practices content:

InfoSphere Information Server best practices

On the InfoSphere Information Server best practices page, find best practices papers presenting advice on ways you can leverage IBM InfoSphere Information Server to satisfy key business requirements for information integration solutions.

InfoSphere Master Data Management Server best practices

On the InfoSphere Master Data Management best practices page, get practical guidance for the most common MDM Server configuations and use this knowledge to improve the value of your MDM Server implementation.

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