I have recently encountered an interesting issue – after an IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) upgrade, client applications suddenly stopped being able to connect to some database instances – not all of them, but just a to a subset.… Read the…
I have been recently tasked with creation of an early warning solution for a memory condition from which some of our DB2 databases have been occasionally suffering. Once the condition is encountered, the only resolution is to restart the instance…
How to investigate Db2 copies installed on a Windows system According to one of the definitions from the UrbanDictionary, adding the words “in bed” to any sentence can make that sentence “more interesting”. I like to think that the Db2…
DB2 has an “interesting” relationship with Windows OS, and one of the areas where that relationship comes to the surface is user authentication and authorization, particularly when one is trying to use Active Domain groups for authorization purposes. Here are…
Any DBAs faced with having to administer and maintain a large number of instances and databases will quickly find themselves swamped with work unless they learn to script most of their workload. Of course, the benefits of scripting do not…
