Analyst reports
The New IBM DB2 10: Analyzing Its User Value in Performance, Costs, Ease of Extension, and Risk Management
In this paper, Infostructure Associates analyzes the ways in which the new IBM DB2 10 for Linux, UNIX and Windows database management system software delivers added value to customers,
Last updated: 02 Apr 2012
Cost/Benefit Case for IBM DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition and InfoSphere Optim Operational DBA Tools. Comparing Costs and Capabilities with Oracle Database 11g
This new ITG report compares the costs and benefits of employing DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition (AESE) and Oracle Database 11g. DB2 AESE is an aggressively priced bundle of DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (LUW), commonly used DB2 9.7 facilities and InfoSphere Optim tools.
Last updated: 09 Jan 2012
ITG Report: Value Proposition for IBM DB2 - Cost/Benefit Case for SAP Enterprise Migrations
DB2 optimized for SAP, retains its edge in cost-effectiveness. In examples presented in this report, users deploying new SAP systems are able to reduce 3 year database infrastructure costs by an average of 37% by using DB2 9.7 rather than Oracle Database 11g. For users migrating to DB2 9.7, 3 year costs average 27% less.
Last updated: 13 Dec 2011
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated migrates its database system to DB2
The move has brought about a 40% reduction in database storage space, which helps to decelerate the company's data volume growth
Last updated: 27 Jun 2011
Triton Consulting: Quantitative Complexity Analysis Executive Summary: Compression in DB2 9.7 v Oracle 11gR2
This study examines DBA activities; enabling table compression and enabling index compression. It assesses the complexity of each within an Oracle version 11gR2 and DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows version 9.7 environments.
Last updated: 09 May 2011
Solitaire Interglobal Study: IBM® DB2® versus Oracle® Database and Microsoft SQL Server®
In an April 2011 release of an ongoing study by the Solitaire Interglobal Ltd. (SIL) research team, the production behaviors of Oracle Database and DB2 on the IBM Power Systems and similar behaviors of Oracle Database, SQL Server and DB2 on the IBM System x platforms were analyzed and compared.
Last updated: 05 May 2011
The Total Economic Impact of migration to IBM DB2 for SAP and non-SAP environments
Forrester found examples of how DB2 delivered key benefits both inside and outside of IT
Last updated: 09 Apr 2011
Oracle and the case of the missing slides…
Learn what Clabby Analytics has to say about Oracle's marketing methods and "companies that make “partially true” marketing claims."
Last updated: 01 Apr 2010
ITG Report: IBM DB2 9.7: Cost Savings Potential Compared to Oracle Database 11g
Databases continue to expand, and costs for database software, storage systems and servers to support them continue to increase. This report examines the use of IBM DB2 9.7 as an alternative to Oracle 11g. This represents a major new opportunity for organizations to meet escalating demand while reducing IT costs.
Last updated: 11 Aug 2009
Books
Six reasons to move from Oracle to IBM
Boost performance, cut costs and manage growth
Last updated: 11 Nov 2011
IBM® Tools for DB2® for Linux, UNIX and Windows
Extending your capabilities to manage DB2 database and transaction processing workloads
Last updated: 25 Oct 2011
DB2 and Power Systems - Optimized and tuned for insight
Using DB2 and Power Systems together compounds their individual benefits by optimizing and integrating the hardware and software. IBM drives cost and operational efficiencies that support flexible IT operations and help to maximize performance.
Last updated: 14 Oct 2011
Data Management for Smarter Business Outcomes ebook
This e-book offers tips and solutions to help you optimize infrastructure, boost development productivity and improve database administrator (DBA) efficiency.
Last updated: 25 Jan 2011
Proven strategies for uncovering cost savings with IBM DB2
Learn how your organization can take advantage of recent breakthroughs to lower the cost of data management. This informative ebook describes proven strategies for lowering the costs associated with database administration, development, systems and storage.
Last updated: 06 Jan 2011
Break free with DB2 9.7: A Tour of Cost-Slashing New Features
Learn how DB2 9.7 provides native support for the most commonly used PL/SQL syntax, with some organizations reporting as much as 95% of their PL/SQL code running on DB2 without changes!
Last updated: 10 Jun 2010
DB2 pureXML Cookbook: Master the Power of the IBM Hybrid Data Server
Organized by task, this book is packed with more than 700 easy-to-adapt “recipe-style” examples covering the entire application lifecycle–from planning and design through coding, optimization, and troubleshooting.
Last updated: 02 Feb 2010
High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options for DB2 on Linux, UNIX, and Windows
This IBM Redbooks® publication describes DB2’s high availability functions and features, focusing on High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) in the OLTP environment.
Last updated: 15 Aug 2009
Three Ways to Boost Development Productivity ebook
As IT budgets get tighter and skills get more expensive, companies are starting to think of ways to get more out of their existing workforce. This ebook proposes three solutions that can help your developers and architects realize the best possible value from their existing infrastructure.
Last updated: 15 Aug 2009
Best Practices: Managing XML Data
This eBook highlights the best practices for using DB2 pureXML™ to solve business problems effectively and to achieve high performance when managing XML data in enterprise applications.
Last updated: 17 Jun 2009
Brochures
Build a strong foundation for a dynamic, data-intensive infrastructure
Learn how IBM DB2 helps technical professionals get more out of their database
Last updated: 28 Apr 2012
IBM DB2: Deliver cost-effective business continuity with extreme capacity
IBM DB2 provides application cluster transparency technology that equips organizations running OLTP applications with the ability to deliver high availability and continuous uptime for transactional data, plus the flexibility and capacity they need to remain competitive.
Last updated: 05 Apr 2012
Is your database ready for your company’s future?
The ability to effectively manage data and information is critical to business success. Given that, the performance of your database is a leading indicator of the performance of your enterprise.
Last updated: 03 Apr 2012
DB2 pureScale: Unlimited capacity with continuous availability
DB2 pureScale offers clustering technology that helps deliver high availability and exceptional scalability transparent to applications.
Last updated: 29 Mar 2012
Performance management and optimization solutions for IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows
Manage and optimize performance of your database environment before it impacts your business.
Last updated: 28 Nov 2011
IBM Database Patterns for cloud computing
Streamline deployment and management of database environments in the private cloud
Last updated: 20 Oct 2011
DB2 Storage Optimization Feature
Deliver operational savings to SAP customers
Last updated: 05 Aug 2011
DB2 Advanced Recovery Solutions for Linux, UNIX and Windows
Protect data and help accelerate recovery while minimizing the cost of downtime
Last updated: 22 Jun 2011
DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition
DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition delivers value by packaging DB2 with additional performance optimization features and a range of rich administration and development tools.
Last updated: 29 Dec 2010
DB2 Optimized for SAP software
DB2 Optimized for SAP software
Last updated: 01 Mar 2008
Case studies
Fiserv ... Saving USD8 million in five years and helping banks improve business outcomes using IBM technology
Working with IBM, Fiserv is transforming billions of raw transactions into highly usable, actionable insights for its clients, helping small and midsize banks gain advantages previously available only to the largest financial institutions.
Last updated: 14 May 2012
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated migrates to IBM DB2, saves more than $1 million
CCBCC took advantage of an SAP licensing agreement with The Coca-Cola Company to replace its existing Oracle database with IBM DB2. CCBCC has subsequently upgraded to IBM DB2 9.7, and is currently beta testing IBM DB2 10.
Last updated: 11 May 2012
Votorantim Group builds an integrated enterprise and cuts costs with IBM and SAP
Votorantim centralized and standardized its IT infrastructure with an SAP ERP solution running on the IBM Power Systems platform, supported by the IBM DB2 database and IBM AIX operating system.
Last updated: 11 May 2012
IBM cuts time required to create price quotes for clients by 75 percent ... Cross-brand solutions team creates scalable web-based BPM solution with IBM WebSphere software
The IBM cross-brand solutions team creates a scalable, web-based business process management (BPM) solution using IBM WebSphere software. The solution is flexible, scalable and improves visibility into KPIs.
Last updated: 26 Apr 2012
City of Dresden cuts costs for SAP applications by 30 percent ... By migrating to IBM DB2 database software
Working with IBM, City of Dresden IT and Organization Services migrated its SAP databases from Oracle to IBM DB2, running on IBM AIX on IBM Power servers, and migrated to Unicode. To improve performance and cut data volumes, the organization enabled IBM DB2 row and index compression features.
Last updated: 25 Apr 2012
IKB saves costs by migrating SAP databases ... Row and index compression reduces storage requirements and boosts performance
Working with IBM®, IKB Deutsche Industriebank chose to migrate its SAP databases from Oracle to IBM DB2® for Linux, UNIX and Windows. After a successful proof of concept with the bank’s advanced SAP Bank Analyzer environment, all SAP systems at IKB Deutsche Industriebank were successfully migrated to IBM DB2.
Last updated: 09 Apr 2012
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC) ... Saves more than USD1 million with IBM DB2
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. saves more than USD1 million and improves database performance by 30-60 percent when it migrates from Oracle Database to IBM DB2.
Last updated: 02 Apr 2012
Television Broadcasts Limited ... A Hong Kong television broadcaster is using sophisticated analytics to analyze its station's viewers and greatly increase the effectiveness of its advertising promotions.
A Hong Kong television broadcaster is using sophisticated analytics to analyze its station's viewers and greatly increase the effectiveness of its advertising promotions.
Last updated: 31 Mar 2012
Subex Limited ... Reducing total cost of ownership of applications with IBM DB2
The amount of data that Subex must manage and analyze for telcos has grown from tens of millions of records to billions of records daily. To meet its requirements for scalability, performance and price, Subex is migrating from Oracle Database on Sun systems to IBM DB2 9.7 on Power Systems.
Last updated: 27 Mar 2012
Nim See Seng Leasing facilitates growth with new IT landscape
NSS’s web ERP application now runs on an IBM® Power® 710 Express server virtualized with IBM PowerVM® software. Backup and disaster recovery is handled by an IBM Power 520 Express server, which replicates data in real-time.
Last updated: 21 Mar 2012
Zhejiang Tobacco delivers high performance and efficient business processes ... With IBM Global Business Services
The company selected SAP ERP applications for business integration, and SAP ERP Human Capital Management for personnel management. Zhejiang deployed IBM Power Systems servers and IBM DB2 technology to support its new SAP software.
Last updated: 21 Mar 2012
Apple Vacations takes a holiday from complexity with IBM XIV and SAP ERP
Deployed a virtualized multiworkload storage environment based on IBM XIV Storage System for all applications, including SAP ERP, running on IBM Power Systems™ and IBM System x servers.
Last updated: 12 Mar 2012
SPCC provides an end-to-end design and build service ... With SAP on IBM hardware
By implementing SAP® Business All-in-One for Engineering, Construction & Operations on IBM® System x®, IBM DB2® for Linux, UNIX and Windows, and IBM System Storage® technology, SPCC has created a solution that combines decentralized end-to-end project management with central performance management reporting.
Last updated: 06 Mar 2012
TCCT of Thailand relies on IBM XIV Storage
By selecting IBM XIV Storage System as its strategic platform for data storage for SAP ERP, TCCT improved performance by 20 percent while reducing capital and operational costs. The solution also reduces complexity, improves scalability and enables rapid disaster recovery.
Last updated: 26 Feb 2012
Mayo Clinic ... Smarter Planet Leadership Series: Streamlining the imaging workflow to improve the efficiency and quality of patient care
At Mayo Clinic, Drs. Bradley Erickson (Director of Radiology Informatics) and Bernard King (Chair of Radiology) exemplify how collaborative leadership can make all the difference in the transition to a more data-driven clinical culture
Last updated: 24 Jan 2012
A Chinese municipal government delivers service in the cloud ... IBM WebSphere CloudBurst and IBM Rational help reduce data center overhead
A city government in China creates a private cloud environment to support its software outsourcing business and petroleum-related service providers when it works with IBM Global Technology Services - Integrated Technology Services to implement an IBM CloudBurst solution, with IBM Rational, IBM Tivoli and IBM ...
Last updated: 28 Dec 2011
A government agency in Brazil furthers public education and scientific research ... A social collaboration portal based on IBM technologies creates valuable learning opportunities for scientists, educators and students
A government agency in Brazil expects to better educate the country about the Amazon rain forest while generating valuable learning opportunities for scientists, educators and students when it works with volunteers from IBM to create a Citizen Science portal using IBM DB2, IBM Lotus, IBM Tivoli and IBM WebSph...
Last updated: 28 Dec 2011
A large healthcare institute lowers costs and improves care with a single web portal ... Doctors, patients and staff gain role-based access to electronic health records with an IBM Lotus solution
World-leading institution for cardiac, circulatory and metabolic diseases implements a comprehensive integrated telemedicine solution with an IBM Business Partner that runs on IBM hardware and leverages middleware and storage software to effectively provide interconnected data support of a variety of data typ...
Last updated: 28 Dec 2011
Li Ning Sports Goods ... A sporting goods retailer in China transforms its website into a tool for capturing personal and shopping data, using this unprecedented visitor demographic and behavioral intelligence to launch precision-guided marketing initiatives
A sporting goods retailer in China transforms its website into a tool for capturing personal and shopping data with a next-generation IBM WebSphere Commerce-based solution. The solution allows the company to use sophisticated visitor demographic and behavioral intelligence to launch precision-guided marketing...
Last updated: 28 Dec 2011
Clark County Department of Family Services boosts its ROI to $10M ... Using IBM Business Analytics to improve services, streamline processes and support funding claims
Clark County Family Services used IBM Business Analytics technologies to improve services, streamline processes and support funding claims
Last updated: 22 Dec 2011
SAP deploys IBM DB2, saves costs and boosts performance
This paper outlines the database migration, Unicode conversion, and subsequent introduction of data-compression technologies undertaken by SAP in 2007-2009.
Last updated: 21 Dec 2011
Holiday Extras ... Speeds transactions 100 percent and grows its business with DB2
Holiday Extras gains 100 percent improvement in query response time when it upgrades to DB2 9.7 and implements data compression and storage optimization.
Last updated: 20 Dec 2011
Esri maps out large-scale growth ... With SAP and IBM
The company migrated its SAP solutions to IBM Power 750 servers, maintained its data on the existing IBM DB2 software, and consolidated its data storage to IBM XIV Storage Systems.
Last updated: 19 Dec 2011
Balluff transforms SAP application landscape with IBM Power Systems and IBM XIV Storage Systems
This paper describes the transformation of a traditional three-tier SAP software landscape with standard SAN storage to a fully virtualized environment based on IBM Power Systems with IBM PowerVM and IBM XIV Storage Systems. Along the way, the customer has reduced complexity, increased resilience and improved...
Last updated: 12 Dec 2011
Numius creates a business analytics platform for customers ... Based on smarter computing from IBM
Working with IBM® and IBM Premier Business Partner I.R.I.S. ICT, Numius created a flexible, cost-effective analytics package – Numius Platform Services (NPS). NPS provides added-value on specific problems as part of a straightforward, general solution based on IBM hardware.
Last updated: 08 Dec 2011
Dombivli Nagari Sahakari Bank Ltd. ... Recovering from disasters and system failures in 10 seconds with no data loss
To minimize downtimes due to server or database outages, IBM implemented a two-node Tivoli Systems Automation cluster to automate redirection of users and a DB2 High Availability Disaster Recovery server in continuous replication with the primary node, reducing downtimes to seconds.
Last updated: 22 Nov 2011
Ludwig Görtz improves service with intelligent workforce management ... Smart personnel planning with a solution based on IBM WebSphere and DB2
The ARGOS workforce management application, developed by IBM and IBM Business Partner ETHALON GmbH for Ludwig Görtz, integrates data from numerous systems and uses innovative approximation algorithms to predict and optimise future staffing requirements.
Last updated: 21 Nov 2011
An Italian transportation company finds a green route to business growth
This transportation company replaced its Sun and Oracle systems with two IBM Power Systems 770 servers for its core SAP applications, and migrated its data to IBM DB2. The company also replaced its Hitachi Data Systems storage array with an IBM System Storage DS8300.
Last updated: 18 Nov 2011
DRV KBS improves service levels with flexible IT structure ... Digital archiving and computer-assisted working methods based on SOA and IBM Content Manager
Introduction of a standard enterprise content management system throughout the whole of DRV KBS with a common interface based on a service-oriented architecture with IBM Content Management.
Last updated: 17 Nov 2011
Fratelli Carli: Innovation through bringing heritage forward - Video ... Integrating legacy applications on System z with VSE
Fratelli Carli integrated legacy applications through their VSE systems with a Linux environment on the IBM System z. This enabled Fratelli Carli to integrate its VSE systems with its new payment system plans & to offer their clients' more flexible service.
Last updated: 15 Nov 2011
Scotiabank ... Satisfies client demand for real-time reporting capabilities
Scotiabank satisfies customer demand for real-time reporting capabilities in a major online banking application when it implements IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture software.
Last updated: 14 Nov 2011
Major fashion retailer knows what’s hot and what’s not with SAP and IBM
In an ongoing program of moving to SAP software, the retailer implemented IBM Systems solution for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse. The company has standardized its corporate business systems to IBM Power Systems, supported by IBM System Storage and IBM DB2 for information management.
Last updated: 03 Nov 2011
Latin American Insurance Company ... Improving speed to market and customer interaction with IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules
A Latin American insurance company depended on business rules throughout its operations, but these were embedded in code. The company implemented a web-based platform with decisioning capabilities using IBM WebSphere ILOG resulting in cost savings and growth in new business.
Last updated: 31 Oct 2011
Staples ... IBM WebSphere Commerce software and IBM POWER7 servers improve performance
Staples wanted to improve the customer’s online experience relative to performance, reduce TCO and increase the flexibility of the infrastructure for more nimble future releases. Staples turned to IBM and IBM Global Services for a new release of Staples.com on IBM WebSphere Commerce.
Last updated: 31 Oct 2011
City of Dubuque - Client Reference Video
A US city experiences a significant reduction in water consumption when it engages IBM Research, IBM Business Partner Esri in a Smarter Cities Sustainability project and numerous IBM software products to create a first-of-a-kind cloud-based, meter-driven solution that directly involves citizens in controlling...
Last updated: 27 Oct 2011
Cameron switches to IBM DB2 for SAP applications, saves $1 million
Migrated 24 Oracle databases supporting SAP applications to IBM DB2, implemented DB2 Deep Compression technology. Added to the company’s IBM Power estate by purchasing an IBM Power 770 server, featuring IBM POWER7 processor technology, divided into 24 logical partitions (LPARs) using IBM PowerVM.
Last updated: 24 Oct 2011
Guangdong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
A hospital in China breaks new ground with a First-of-a-Kind solution that helps clinicians derive new insights from large volumes of patient data to study the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine or combinations of the two approaches
Last updated: 24 Oct 2011
Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital
A large Taiwanese hospital is using powerful analytics to make resource utilization data actionable and help patients get better faster while remaining flexible during a time of stringent quality rules tied to funding under the new national health insurance plan
Last updated: 24 Oct 2011
Apple Vacations creates the perfect package solution with SAP and IBM
Consolidated core SAP® applications to two IBM® Power® 770 servers running IBM AIX® and IBM DB2®, and implemented IBM WebSphere® eXtreme Scale to provide super-fast web performance. IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Virtual Enterprise components help Apple Vacations to provide an integrated w...
Last updated: 20 Oct 2011
City of Dubuque, Iowa ... A US city alerts citizens to water waste, increases water leak detection and encourages water conservation by providing deep insight into water consumption trends through a solution that combines the power of cloud computing and analytics
A US city experiences a significant reduction in water consumption when it engages IBM Research, IBM Business Partner Esri in a Smarter Cities Sustainability project and numerous IBM software products to create a first-of-a-kind cloud-based, meter-driven solution that directly involves citizens in controlling...
Last updated: 18 Oct 2011
EllisDon constructs a mission-critical cloud ... With the IBM XIV Storage System at the heart of a virtualized VMware infrastructure
Worked with IBM to deploy a private cloud solution comprising IBM System x® servers running VMware vSphere virtualization technology, with virtualized data storage on IBM XIV® Storage System.
Last updated: 10 Oct 2011
EllisDon - IBM Client Reference Video
EllisDon worked with IBM to deploy a private cloud solution comprising IBM System x® servers running VMware vSphere virtualization technology, with virtualized data storage on IBM XIV® Storage System.
Last updated: 10 Oct 2011
New York State Tax ... Leadership Series Video
IBM Smarter Planet Leadership Series Customer Reference: New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Interviewee: Jim Lieb, Director of Architecture and Web Solutions
Last updated: 29 Sep 2011
Reliance Life ... Smarter Planet Leadership Series: Transforming distribution to bring security within reach
Reliance launched a comprehensive self-service portal solution called Lifeline which has lowered operational costs by 30% while making the customer experience more streamlined and transparent.
Last updated: 26 Aug 2011
SEB ... Crossing a threshold to more agility and smarter payments
Enabling value-added services in the wake of SEPA, SEB resolved to replace its payments infrastructure, capable of consolidating all of its payments traffic onto a single hub, offering faster payments with transparency, monitoring and alerts.
Last updated: 20 Aug 2011
Lands' End empowers marketing staff and develops more targeted campaigns with IBM Unica Campaign
Lands' End empowers marketing staff and develops more targeted campaigns with Unica Campaign.
Last updated: 19 Aug 2011
Mindray supports exponential growth with SAP and DB2
Mindray’s exponential growth supported by SAP applications with DB2 on IBM infrastructure built for scalability, power and performance
Last updated: 15 Aug 2011
Air Canada ... Leadership Series: On a never-ending push to make life simpler for the customer
Air Canada has come a long way in its self-service journey, and Patrice Ouellette has been there from the beginning. Under his leadership, Air Canada’s “Innovation Team” has sparked a number of firsts in the industry, including the placement of “offsite” kiosks outside the airport.
Last updated: 10 Aug 2011
Leading card processing company ... IBM CICS Transaction Server improves time-to-market for new solutions and services
A card processing company lacked responsiveness and agility in selling solutions because of the inflexibility of its legacy processing system but IBM CICS Transaction Processor enabled the company to develop new solutions and enhanced services with faster time-to-market.
Last updated: 31 Jul 2011
Iowa State University ... Transforming decision-making and service delivery through content management
Iowa State University reduces paper output by 67 percent and saves $40,000 a year by eliminating voucher outsourcing fees with an enterprise content management solution from IBM.
Last updated: 22 Jul 2011
Voith boosts productivity, cuts costs with IBM Power Systems and DB2
Voith chose to extend its existing Power Systems server landscape with POWER6 and POWER7 processor-based servers as the platform of choice, and migrate its SAP database to IBM DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows version 9.5.
Last updated: 12 Jul 2011
Farmacéuticos Maypo gains real-time, accurate business information with SAP and IBM
Farmacéuticos Maypo selected SAP ERP, SAP ERP HCM, SAP SRM, SAP NetWeaver MDM, SAP NetWeaver BPM, SAP NetWeaver PI. The SAP applications run on leased IBM systems, including two IBM Power 570 servers and IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express, running IBM AIX and IBM DB2 database.
Last updated: 08 Jul 2011
New York State Tax ... Leadership Series: How predictive modeling improves tax revenues and citizen equity.
By integrating predictive analytics directly into its processing stream, NYS Tax is preemptively identifying questionable tax returns and optimizing its approach to collecting delinquent taxes.
Last updated: 08 Jul 2011
Banco de Crédito del Peru ... Cutting data management costs in half with IBM DB2
Banco de Crédito del Peru cuts its data management costs in half and improves the performance and reliability of its business applications when it migrates from Oracle Database to IBM DB2.
Last updated: 30 Jun 2011
Koyou Lease Co., Ltd. ... This equipment leasing company implements an RFID tracking solution that enables it to configure new rental options and services demanded by its customers while improving revenue, reducing loss from theft and lowering safety-stock requirements
This Japanese equipment leasing company implements an RFID tracking solution that enables it to configure new rental options and services demanded by its customers while improving revenue, reducing loss from theft and lowering safety-stock requirements
Last updated: 30 Jun 2011
Institute For Applied Telemedicine (IFAT) ... Smarter Planet Video
Interview with Heinrich Koertke, Director, Institute For Applied Telemedicine (IFAT) Heart & Diabetes Centre NRW
Last updated: 31 May 2011
JSC Rietumu Banka ... Achieves faster database performance moving from Oracle and Sun to IBM DB2 on Power Systems
With its migration to IBM DB2 on IBM Power Systems, JSC Rietumu Banka reduced the total cost of ownership for its online banking infrastructure and dramatically improved query performance and data availability.
Last updated: 31 May 2011
Versicherungskammer Bayern ... Builds smarter policy cancellation process
Improves speed to market and agility with IBM WebSphere BPM Suite and Business Rule Management System
Last updated: 31 May 2011
PLANSEE boosts efficiency and compresses database costs with SAP on IBM DB2
Migrated a suite of SAP software to two IBM Power 780 systems with 12 POWER7 processors each. IBM System Storage DS8100 and TS1130 tape drives provide storage, managed by IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Working with IBM Software Services, PLANSEE replaced its existing Oracle database with IBM DB2 and activated de...
Last updated: 20 May 2011
Visa Europe ... Processing payments with unprecedented agility and reliability
Visa Europe teamed with IBM to develop a high-performance clearing and settlement platform serving 4000 member institutions. To handle a wide variety of local conditions, the platform enables Visa business users to rapidly assess and adjust thousands of business rules governing operations.
Last updated: 06 Apr 2011
Parazelsus leverages DB2 High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) for its SAP environment
Parazelsus decided to migrate its SAP ERP enterprise software from Oracle database to IBM DB2 database software and selected IBM Power 550 and Power 520 servers with POWER6 processors. The migration took two weeks, from planning to completion.
Last updated: 29 Mar 2011
Transforming demand generation, boosting responses up to sixfold ... IBM Unica empowers customers, accelerates key marketing processes, improves marketing performance
IBM needed to fundamentally transform the way it generates demand and manages customer responses and leads, accelerating its marketing processes, improving visibility and increasing response rates. To meet its goals, IBM implemented a new marketing platform based on integrated Unica and IBM technologies.
Last updated: 29 Mar 2011
RI-Solution boosts performance, cuts license fees and reduces storage costs with DB2 for SAP application
RI-Solution, responsible for server and applications hosting and management for the BayWa group, migrated from Oracle to IBM DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows for all its SAP applications, and implemented DB2 9.5 Deep Compression for data.
Last updated: 04 Mar 2011
Reliance cuts database total cost of ownership in half with IBM DB2
Reliance Life Insurance Company decreases total cost of ownership by 50 percent and increases application uptime from 80 to 95 percent when it replaces an Oracle/Sun platform with an IBM DB2/Power server platform.
Last updated: 17 Feb 2011
Knorr-Bremse puts the brake on costs using IBM DB2 for SAP Business Suite
Knorr-Bremse migrated 52 databases to IBM DB2 over a nine-month period. This allowed the company to avoid purchasing additional storage at an estimated cost of more than €200,000 in the first year. It reduced operational and maintenance costs by approximately 30 percent and cut database license fees by 15 per...
Last updated: 24 Jan 2011
Banco de Crédito del Peru vaults over the competition with help from IBM and SAP
Banco de Crédito del Peru implemented SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, SAP NetWeaver Portal, SAP Solution Manager and SAP BusinessObjects GRC.These applications are running on IBM BladeCenter JS43, IBM Power 595 and IBM Power 570 servers, all running the IBM AIX operating system landscape.
Last updated: 20 Jan 2011
Fratelli Carli S.p.a. IBM System z Video
A leading producer of premium olive oil and other consumer products, Fratelli Carli choose the IBM System z10 because of its ability to integrate modern Linux systems with fast VSE 'Legacy' applications in an extremely reliable and highly secure environment.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
McCormick tastes success with SAP applications with IBM DB2 on IBM Power
McCormick is upgrading its production SAP environment to IBM DB2 9.7 and replacing older servers with new IBM POWER7 processor-based machines. The company is using advanced features of DB2 such as compression, self-tuning memory management (STMM) and online reorgs to minimize downtime, reduce costs and boost ...
Last updated: 12 Jan 2011
Large telco transforms customer service and life-cycle management with analytics
New insight into customer behavior using real-time analytics helps one large telecommunications company provide individualized service recommendations for a diverse customer population that extends to hundreds of thousands of rural towns and villages.
Last updated: 29 Dec 2010
Netcare keeps its finger on the pulse with rapid reporting from IBM and SAP
Netcare worked with T-Systems to migrate its SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse environment to IBM DB2 in just eight days, as a few weeks of meticulous planning were done in preparation. During the data migration, T-Systems introduced IBM DB2 Deep Row Compression to help reduce database sizes and increase perfo...
Last updated: 02 Dec 2010
Taikang Life Insurance Co Ltd. (Taikang)
Taikang needed to improve employee productivity and enhance customer service and business development opportunities by viewing all its customer and corporate information together regardless of what department it came from. The company used IBM InfoSphere Federation Server to enable a single central view of in...
Last updated: 30 Nov 2010
UPMC pairs IBM ProtecTIER and IBM XIV solutions ... Winning the backup battle
This case study shows how UPMC, a leading integrated global health enterprise, combined IBM System Storage ProtecTIER deduplication and IBM XIV solutions to create a more robust storage and backup environment that saves space and boosts performance while remaining cost-effective.
Last updated: 30 Nov 2010
Group Mannheimer Versicherungen reduces operational costs by 30 percent with SAP and IBM
Migrated from HP servers running SAP applications and Oracle databases in the Microsoft Windows Server environment to IBM infrastructure. SAP ERP applications, DB2 and other in-house and business intelligence applications run in multiple virtual servers on IBM Power 570 servers running AIX and the Unicode sta...
Last updated: 15 Nov 2010
SKH Metals Limited ... Facilitating two-hour just-in-time manufacturing
SKH Metals selected SAP ERP applications, including financials, controlling, materials management, sales and distribution, production planning, warehouse management, quality management and materials requirements planning, supported by IBM DB2® information management software.
Last updated: 12 Oct 2010
University of California – Office of the President ... Reducing risk and lowering costs with integrated data management
The University of California needed a proper framework for its enterprise risk management. UC engaged IBM to implement an Enterprise Risk Management Information System (ERMIS).
Last updated: 07 Oct 2010
Sharp Corporation creates information agility with SAP and IBM
Sharp deployed IBM Power Systems p595 servers running IBM AIX®, IBM DB2®, IBM WebSphere® Application Server, IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM WebSphere Message Broker, IBM Tivoli® OMEGAMON®, IBM Global Integrated View (GIView) Planner, IBM Global Integrated View (GIView) Enterprise MES.
Last updated: 06 Oct 2010
mypoint.com increases flexibility for adding services with IBM DB2
In upgrading its point royalty service website, mypoint.com found that its existing database platform from Oracle didn’t provide the flexibility needed to add new attributes and functions.
Last updated: 29 Sep 2010
Fukuoka District Waterworks Agency ... Keeps the water running with automated asset management
Fukuoka District Water works Agency needed to develop water supply asset management system in a short term, and IBM Maximo which can improve facility/asset management and maintenance management was adopted to build this system
Last updated: 27 Sep 2010
Delivering a customized technical support experience ... IBM creates an online portal for comprehensive support
IBM delivers a customized technical support experience with a unified, customizable global support portal for all IBM systems, software and services based on IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Rational software
Last updated: 16 Sep 2010
Grandi Navi Veloci ... Real-time pricing updates create a smarter passenger pricing system
A large Italian ferry company maximizes passenger revenue and optimizes garage space allocation of its ferry runs using a real-time forecasting and pricing application implemented by IBM Global Business Services
Last updated: 30 Aug 2010
China Telecommunications Corporation ... Mobile provider streamlines innovation and speeds development
A large mobile telecommunications services provider in China streamlines its product innovation process and accelerates product development when it works with IBM Software Services for Lotus to implement a solution based on IBM Lotus Connections software hosted on IBM WebSphere Application Server software
Last updated: 09 Aug 2010
Precedence Health Care ... Developing a care management system to effectively manage treatment of patients with chronic disease
Precedence Health Care worked with IBM to develop the Chronic Disease Management Network (CDM-Net), which allows all caregivers to track and share information, helping ensure the effective delivery of a collaborative treatment plan and, more importantly, a better quality of life for patients.
Last updated: 03 Aug 2010
EURONICS charges up its business agility with IBM XIV Storage for SAP ... In a fully virtualized, zero-downtime storage landscape
EURONICS worked with Fritz & Macziol, an IBM Premier Business Partner, to centralize and virtualize its storage landscape on IBM XIV Storage System and IBM SAN Volume Controller technology. The solution boosts performance, reliability, ease of use and business agility.
Last updated: 29 Jul 2010
SKH Metals switches to two-hour just-in-time manufacturing with SAP ERP applications and IBM DB2
SKH Metals selected SAP ERP applications, including financials, controlling, materials management, sales and distribution, production planning, warehouse management, quality management, materials requirements planning, based on IBM DB2 information management.
Last updated: 25 Jun 2010
International construction company MEVA builds a super-efficient business with SAP and IBM
MEVA worked with IBM Global Business Services to create a single, centralized solution based on SAP ERP applications. The software runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM System x servers, supported by an IBM DB2 database. VMware ESX allows MEVA to run multiple virtual servers on each physical machine.
Last updated: 26 Apr 2010
Sabó drives database costs down by migrating SAP applications to IBM DB2
Sabó achieved a successful migration of its SAP database to IBM DB2 in only three months. Using IBM DB2 Deep Compression technology, Sabó were able to decrease database size by more than 50 percent from 1.4TB to 560GB.
Last updated: 29 Mar 2010
New York State saves $889 million by optimizing audit case selection
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance implemented a tax audit and compliance system that automatically rejects refund requests that are clearly ineligible. As a result, the department has increased its ability to recover funds from erroneous returns from US$56 million to over US$200 million an...
Last updated: 26 Mar 2010
Lextron feeds rapid, acquisitive growth with SAP and IBM
Working with iTelligence, an SAP Gold Partner and Global Services Partner, Lextron implemented SAP ERP solutions as a single, centralized instance for all its divisions, with an IBM DB2 database. Lextron is taking advantage of DB2 Deep Compression technology, saving a total of some 175GB across the whole syst...
Last updated: 11 Mar 2010
Rasselstein: migration to IBM DB2 helps to cut costs and improve performance for business-critical SAP applications
Implemented IBM DB2 9.5 for Linux, Unix and Windows Enterprise Server Edition with Storage Optimization feature, managed by IBM Information Management Software Services; completed the database and Unicode conversion processes in a single step.
Last updated: 11 Mar 2010
Rosenau Transport: Leveraging real-time data to take trucking from commodity to value add
Rosenau teamed with IBM to build and source a system that captures data from truck-mounted sensors and transmits it to a central transport management and analysis hub, where it provides the basis for operational decision support—from route optimization to delivery notification.
Last updated: 01 Mar 2010
FOX Broadcasting: Making room for HD with an IBM digital archive solution
FOX teamed with IBM to create a first-of-its-kind, direct-to-digital storage solution for HD video that eliminates the need for costly videotape recorders and media.
Last updated: 28 Feb 2010
SuperPharm transforms the pharmacy business in Trinidad with help from an ERP/POS solution from VAI and IBM
VAI and IBM solution helped SuperPharm transform the pharmacy business in Trinidad, providing customers with the first ‘superstore’ shopping environment and SuperPharm with one of the first secure, centralized, continuously available retail management systems on the island.
Last updated: 28 Jan 2010
IDS Scheer shows how virtualization dramatically simplifies a complex IT infrastructure
This paper describes how IDS Scheer has successfully deployed both server and storage virtualization technologies, achieving remarkable results in terms of increased performance and reduced total cost of ownership.
Last updated: 21 Dec 2009
CLS: Revolutionising the way the world settles foreign exchange trades
CLS Group created a groundbreaking process for FX settlement, then partnered with IBM to design, develop and manage the global IT infrastructure needed to support it.
Last updated: 17 Dec 2009
Uratex drives profitability with SAP Business All-in-One on IBM technology
Worked with SAP Value Added Reseller BayanTrade to implement an SAP Business All-in-One solution, initially at two sites and ultimately across the group, based on an IBM System x server, IBM System Storage and IBM DB2.
Last updated: 03 Dec 2009
REHAU: Future IT strategy developed based on SAP software and DB2
Consolidation of all business processes using SAP and DB2, based on the SAP Adaptive Computing FlexFrame™ for SAP® solution from Fujitsu Siemens Computers with Linux®
Last updated: 26 Oct 2009
Mayo Clinic helps radiologists pinpoint potential problems
Mayo Clinic worked with IBM to create new analytic algorithms and integrate them seamlessly into its radiology workflow.
Last updated: 14 Oct 2009
World Data Center digitizes and stores invaluable climate data with IBM solutions
This case study shows how World Data Center, a climate data archive, implemented an IBM System z9® server, IBM z/VM®, IBM DB2®, Tivoli® Storage Manager, IBM Content Manager OnDemand, and IBM System Storage™ components to collect, process, store and share data digitally.
Last updated: 02 Oct 2009
Online HR specialist theHRfiles upgrades database, enhances user experience, expands client base
With IBM DB2, theHRfiles gained the scalability, security, high performance and rapid ROI it need to support a growing client base.
Last updated: 30 Sep 2009
Kyocera Mita Europe performs a successful SAP upgrade with IBM Global Business Services
IBM Global Business Services helped Kyocera Mita Europe plan and execute an upgrade to SAP ERP 6.0 and IBM DB2 9.1, using the Combined Upgrade and Unicode Conversion (CU&UC) methodology. To avoid business disruption, IBM helped the company run both the new and the old environments in parallel.
Last updated: 10 Sep 2009
SBI Sumishin Net Bank: A full-banking service, Internet-only bank
SBI Sumishin Net Bank asked IBM Japan to develop a totally new Internet banking platform—not to construct one based on existing assets.
Last updated: 31 Aug 2009
SK Energy improves resilience and boosts performance with SAP ERP on IBM Power Systems
SK Energy migrated to SAP ERP 6.0 and IBM DB2 9 running under IBM AIX on IBM Power Systems servers, and implemented a disaster recovery solution based on IBM System Storage DS8000 platform, using IBM FlashCopy to mirror data between two data centers.
Last updated: 30 Jul 2009
National Geographic, as part of its Genographic Project, tracks human migration across the millennia via DNA analysis
National Geographic and the IBM Computational Biology Center, with support from the Waitt Family Foundation, created a DNA analysis repository that lets researchers and scientists analyze gathered genetic data and identify patterns among the samples.
Last updated: 28 Jul 2009
ESK cuts SAP application operating costs with IBM System x and VMware
ESK worked with IBM to replace its existing servers with 5 IBM System x3650 servers with quad-core Intel® Xeon® X5450 processors, running VMware Infrastructure Enterprise to enable server virtualization. 2 of the x3650s now run virtual servers for all 7 SAP application environments including the supporting IB...
Last updated: 19 Jun 2009
Agrofert implements group-wide shared services with IBM DB2 and SAP
Agrofert implemented SAP ERP applications as a shared service for some of its subsidiaries, aiming to make these available subsequently throughout the enterprise, hosted at two locations on IBM Power Systems servers.
Last updated: 11 Jun 2009
SAP Mass Billing Solution for Telecommunications
IBM and SAP investigate the new challenges brought on by business process evolution in the telecommunications industry and demonstrate the viability of a new cross-industry high-volume Consume-to-Cash architecture and solution for meeting these challenges.
Last updated: 27 May 2009
IBM outfits Peter Hahn with solutions for improved performance and high availability
This case study shows how Peter Hahn, a European clothier, implemented automated backups with no downtime and improved performance. The solution included IBM System z9® with Integrated Facility for Linux®, IBM System Storage™ DS8100, IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and IBM DB2®.
Last updated: 20 Mar 2009
Kliniken des Landkreises Lörrach enhances patient care and cuts costs with SAP and IBM
Kliniken des Landkreises Lörrach implemented the latest SAP applications and selected IBM DB2 running under Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the IBM BladeCenter platform. It also chose IBM System Storage and IBM System x hardware to support a new storage area network for clinical imaging.
Last updated: 26 Jan 2009
Whirlpool Corporation focuses on operational excellence as global growth shifts into high gear
Whirlpool engaged IBM Global Business Services to reconstitute its fragmented business processes with best practices across all of its processes and lines of business.
Last updated: 23 Dec 2008
Nationwide Insurance: Using virtualization as a foundation for innovation
Nationwide deployed two IBM System z™ mainframes running Linux.® The solution is a cornerstone of Nationwide's strategy of moving all new development to virtualization and J2EE as a means of "future-proofing" its IT environment.
Last updated: 15 Sep 2008
Gewandhaus Gruber increases customer loyalty and sales revenue by using cutting-edge IBM and IBM Business Partner technology
Using a combination of IBM and IBM Business Partner technology, the retailer launched the first fingerprint identification–based loyalty program and payment method in Germany.
Last updated: 13 Sep 2008
Arizona Public Service further improves its batch-processing environment by enhancing its IBM platform with an IBM Business Partner solution.
APS teamed with IBM Business Partner Relational Architects International to implement the Smart/RRSAF solution, which offers a simple way to connect applications to the DB2 data server for batch processing.
Last updated: 22 Aug 2008
Data sheets
IBM® DB2® 10 Express® Edition
IBM® DB2® 10 Express® Edition is a comprehensive, high-performance, scalable database management system designed to meet the needs of small and medium businesses, academic institutions and IBM Business Partners.
Last updated: 10 Apr 2012
Demos
Which edition of DB2 is right for you?
Take this online, interactive demo to gauge the best edition of DB2 for your business needs. It will help you determine the right edition of DB2.
Last updated: 23 Apr 2012
DB2 pureScale Demo
IBM DB2 pureScale can help your business break free from database constraints and reach new heights.
Last updated: 28 Nov 2011
IBM Cloud Assessment Tool
Learn how with the right cloud solution, reliable testing and business continuity don't have to conflict.
Last updated: 25 Nov 2011
Data Lifecycle Management for IBM DB2: DB2 tools
Learn how to manage data growth, how to application quickly and reduce TCO.
Last updated: 25 Oct 2011
ROI Calculator - Migrate from Oracle to DB2
The IBM DB2 ROI tool has been designed for developers, database administrators and senior IT management personnel alike, to help them perform a clinical analysis of the cost savings gained from the Storage Optimization feature of DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows.
Last updated: 24 Aug 2011
Discover DB2 demo
When facing complex integration and data growth costs, the search for the ideal database server can be challenging. Fortunately, there is a solution. IBM DB2 can help your business break free from database constraints and reach new heights.
Last updated: 13 Jun 2011
IBM DB2 9.7 SQL compatibility demo
Migrate in weeks, not years! DB2 9.7's new SQL compatibility feature enables customers to migrate more easily from Oracle. DB2 has slashed the time and effort needed to move applications from one database to another.
Last updated: 11 Nov 2010
DB2 Compression ROI Tool
The IBM DB2 ROI tool has been designed for developers, database administrators and senior IT management personnel alike, to help them perform a clinical analysis of the cost savings gained from the Storage Optimization feature of DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows.
Last updated: 17 May 2010
DB2 Smarter Database Software - autonomics
DB2 Autonomics for Lower Administration Costs Ease of administration Increased productivity Save on database administration cost
Last updated: 05 Dec 2009
Deep Compression with DB2 9.7 - Optimizing Database Storage Costs
DB2 marks the new era in database evolution. Innovative features can give you an edge for managing exploding data volumes. The revolutionary Deep Compression technology in DB2 can dramatically slash your disk requirements and reduce spiraling storage costs, while enabling you to access your data faster.
Last updated: 05 Jun 2009
Benefits of DB2 pureXML
Learn how DB2 pureXML seamlessly integrates XML and relational data. The adoption of XML data is increasing rapidly. If you are working with XML data, take a couple of minutes to view this brief demo on DB2 pureXML.
Last updated: 17 May 2009
IBM DB2 and SAP: Together in the Fast Lane
This demo discusses the key technology values that IBM DB2 offers to SAP customers that are running SAP applications. Listen to SAP discuss the value of DB2 and the IBM partnership which has brought innovative technology that gives customers high performance & highly integrated data management software optimized for SAP.
Last updated: 09 Jun 2008
Information centers
IBM DB2 10 Information Center for Linux, UNIX and Windows
Here you can find information describing how to use the DB2 10 family of products and features.
Last updated: 30 Apr 2012
IBM DB2 9.1 Information Center for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
Here you can find information describing how to use the DB2 9 family of products and features.
Last updated: 26 Jan 2012
IBM DB2 9.7 Information Center for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
Here you can find information describing how to use the DB2 9.7 family of products and features.
Last updated: 26 Jan 2012
IBM DB2 pureScale Feature Information Center
Welcome to the IBM DB2 pureScale Feature Information Center The information center contains topics such as how to use the DB2® family of database products and features, in particular the IBM® DB2 pureScale™ Feature for Enterprise Server Edition.
Last updated: 12 Jan 2012
Podcasts
DB2 Time Travel Query
Temporal data management with IBM DB2 Time Travel Query.
Last updated: 05 Apr 2012
Transcend the limits of traditional data management systems
Hear examples of what companies are achieving with big data solutions that work hand-in-hand with their existing relational database systems.
Last updated: 01 May 2011
Product documentation
DB2 Manuals
DB2® database product documentation by product version is available by accessing the DB2 Information Center online, downloading the DB2 Information Center, or downloading documentation in Portable Document Format (PDF).
Last updated: 06 Dec 2011
DB2 features and functions by edition
Some utilities and functionality are only available in particular DB2® database product editions. In some cases, the utility or functionality is associated with a particular DB2 feature and so you must purchase and register a license for that DB2 feature.
Last updated: 29 Dec 2010
Redbooks
Sybase to DB2 Conversion Guide
The IBM DB2 SQL skin feature immediately enables most Sybase ASE applications to run against DB2, usually with little to no up front conversion work required.
Last updated: 05 May 2011
Videos
DB2 pureScale
To successfully manage the demands of our globalized world, a new IBM DB2 feature — IBM DB2 pureScale— helps reduce the risk and cost of business growth. DB2 pureScale technology is based on the IBM System z architecture that businesses worldwide trust for their most critical systems.
Last updated: 07 Nov 2011
DB2 Deep Compression for Lower Storage Costs
DB2 Deep Compression for Lower Storage Costs
Last updated: 02 Mar 2011
White papers
Gathering momentum for data in the cloud: Once a trend, now a revolution with real business benefits
This white paper explores approaches to cloud computing and the steps required to make the cloud a viable, vital part of your IT organization.
Last updated: 23 Apr 2012
Transparent Application Scaling with IBM DB2
IBM® DB2® pureScale® is designed to address your current and future business needs for continuous availability with a system that combines high availability with truly transparent application scaling.
Last updated: 10 Apr 2012
Improving data quality for exceptional business accuracy and compliance
Temporal data management with IBM DB2 Time Travel Query.
Last updated: 05 Apr 2012
The top 5 IT budget killers
Many of the largest IT budget problems can be traced back to five big money drains: Storage expansion,System complexity , Hardware sprawl , Reliability and scalability ,Compliance .
Last updated: 30 Sep 2011
Continuous access to Read on Standby databases using Virtual IP addresses
The DB2® High Availability and Disaster Recover (HADR) feature is a database replication method that provides a high availability solution for both partial and complete site failures.
Last updated: 16 Jan 2011
IBM DB2 9.7 and Smart Analytics Systems: Architecture and Key Capabilities for Data Warehousing
In this 28 page whitepaper, Winter Corporation reviews the product architecture of IBM’s DB2 9.7 and IBM’s Smart Analytics System for consideration by organizations that need a platform for data warehousing, data analytics or business intelligence.
Last updated: 22 Oct 2010
Automating DB2 HADR Failover on Windows using Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms
This paper will guide you through the implementation of an automated IBM® DB2® Universal Database™ (DB2 UDB) failover solution. The solution will be based on a combination of the high availability disaster recovery (HADR) feature in DB2 UDB V9.5 and IBM Tivoli® System Automation for Multiplatforms (SAMP).
Last updated: 04 Oct 2010
DB2 Optimized for WebSphere
Together IBM® DB2® and IBM WebSphere® Application Server directly address the twin challenges of reducing costs while developing the information needed to drive smarter business outcomes
Last updated: 17 May 2010
DB2 system topology and configuration for automated multi-site HA and DR
IBM Technical White Paper
Last updated: 10 Feb 2010
Automated Cluster Controlled HADR (High Availability Disaster Recovery) Configuration Setup using the DB2 High Availability Instance Configuration Utility (db2haicu)
This paper describes two distinct configurations of an automated IBM® DB2® failover solution and the DB2 High Availability Instance Configuration Utility.
Last updated: 09 Jun 2009