Join us for our upcoming Support Technical Exchange! Our speaker, Gary Foster, will guide us through a deep dive on I BM InfoServer DataStage PX Engine - Lookup Stage. Abstract: The parallel lookup stage is one of the most used stages in PX job design. In this presentation, Gary will show the options for use, case scenarios and how this stage works internally so you can make better decisions on how to use this stage in your job designs. With proper use, you can capitalize on available resources and maximize performance of your jobs. This... [More]

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Problem: In DB2 PureScale environment, all members are showing UNKNOWN state. Symptoms: db2instance -list ID        TYPE             STATE                HOME_HOST               CURRENT_HOST            ALERT  ... [More]

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You are invited to join us for a free education session covering Upgrading from Initiate 10.1 to IBM SE MDM V11.4. Date: Wednesday May 13 Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern Registration Link: https://events.na.collabserv.com/register.php?id=4991bb3d43&l=en-US Abstract: In this presentation we will provide an overview on upgrading from Initiate v10.1 to IBM InfoSphere MDM v11.4. The steps to upgrade the Initiate database to MDM v11.4, to point the new MDM installation to the upgraded database and verification of the upgrade process will be... [More]

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Today we'd like to share a very important reminder for any of our clients running DB2 version 9.5. You should be aware that DB2 version 9.5 will reach End of Support on April 30, 2015. Please see our DB2 EOS Technote , for answers and guidance on topics including: How do I purchase a Support Extension? Is there information to help me upgrade? What DB2 9.5 servers are affected? What if I have a special build or an older fix pack on DB2 9.5? Am I still supported? I am using DB2 9.5 as part of a bundle, am I still supported? Is the... [More]

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Connections being rejected on a V9.8 pureScale environment Any connections being made to the database that is on a v9.8 pureScale instance is experiencing a connection hang and instance may experience a 'hang' like situation.   If we take a few iteration of stacks (db2pd -stacks all -rep 10 5), and the stack analysis may have the following output:     0x0900000000533990 _p_nsleep + 0x10   0x0900000000038BE4 nsleep + 0xE4   0x090000000015B290 nanosleep + 0x190   0x0900000007058B60 ossSleep + 0x80  ... [More]

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Please join us for our upcoming Support Technical Exchange! Our speaker, Scott Brokaw, will guide us through Configuring SSL/HTTPS in InfoSphere Information Server versions 8.5 - 11.3. Date: Tuesday April 21, 2015 Time: 11:00 am ET Registration: https://events.na.collabserv.com/register.php?id=a7de9277eb&l=en-US Abstract: This presentation will discuss how to leverage and configure SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) authentication. SSL authentication is configurable at version 8.5 and later. Beginning at version 11.3 SSL authentication is mandatory... [More]

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Getting SQL10004C  An I/O error occurred while accessing the database directory? The reason for SQL10004C may vary. Possible reasons are: - sqldbdir being corrupted - incorrect permission or access issues to the sqldbdir file under database directory   Another possible cause is that the system may have been maxed out of available file handles.  If you scan the /var/log/messages , you may see an error during the same time frame you got SQL10004C error. kernel: VFS: file-max limit ### reached , where the ### is the fs-max set... [More]

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Recently we are seeing lot of cases where applications using IBM DB2 JDBC drivers(db2jcc.jar/db2jcc4.jar)) start failing with SqlCode = -4700 after DB2/zOS server upgrade to V11 CM (Compatibility mode). I wanted to clarify about the error and explain the background. -4700 is a sqlcode returned by the DB2/Z server. It means: "ATTEMPT TO USE NEW FUNCTION BEFORE NEW FUNCTION MODE" The error is returned when the application queries the special register CLIENT_CORR_TOKEN . This special register is not available in V11 CM and introduced in... [More]

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We have just announced the new IBM InfoSphere Data Replication v 11.3.3 (IIDR). InfoSphere® Data Replication V11.3.3 offers an easy-to-use, highly scalable, low-impact, and enterprise-ready data replication platform. This release includes the following: InfoSphere Data Replication V11.3.3 (for IBM® i, Linux™, UNIX™, and Windows™) InfoSphere Change Data Delivery V11.3.3 InfoSphere Data Replication for Apache Hadoop V11.3.3   InfoSphere Data Replication V11.3.3 is a single offering for a wide variety of data... [More]