April 2011 Blog Posts (8)

Susan Visser (twitter: @susvis) tweeted this Prometric site:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/katedawson/entry/back_by_popular_demand_assess_and_save1?lang=en

Key quote:

"If you purchase and PASS an Information Management Online Assessment Test between now and May 31, 2011, you will receive a 50% off…

Hi, fans.  This is my first post in my blog on this site.



I'm Phil Sevetson; I've been a DB2 z/OS (and predecessors) DBA for twenty years; I'm a DB2 Information Champion; I'm certified in DB2 UDB for z/OS v7 and v8 (but not v9, which is one of the subjects of this post).



Current Situation:  I'm currently working as a DB2 z/OS DBA in a pretty good consulting position.  However, ideally, I'd like to find a full-time permanent position in a multi-DBMS shop. (Paid vacation…

Datawarehosue implementation.

There are many ETL tools which will support for the data warehouse .The most efficient Tools which I am using from past many years is Datastage. This was Assential company product later it was occupied by IBM.As time pass the new requirements and the problem faced in the tool has to be modified to sustain in the market .so even datastage has under gone many changes and come up with new versions to handle the data effectively.

I am starting from…

My Machine Description

Intel(R) Atom(TM)

CPU N270 @ 1.60DHz

1.60 GHz  0.98GB RAM

ACPI Multiprocessor PC

32 bit

Operating System Windows XP Home Edition

SP 2

I installed:

Apache 2.2.8

PHP 5.2.5

DB2 C Express v9.7 (catalog databse installed in the same machine as Apache and PHP)

I installed and configured Apache and PHP. Both were tested and work

fine together.

I installed DB2 without problems.

When I tried to…