Category Archives: Iqbal Goralwalla

Looking forward to IDUG EMEA

Posted on November 11, 2011 by laura

It’s the final countdown to IDUG EMEA!  We’re really looking forward to the event this year, there’s so much going on.  We’re sending three of our top DB2 Geeks.  Julian Stuhler will be heading out to Prague early as he … Continue reading →

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Triton Expert Headlining the DB2Night Show™ – All About DB2DART

Posted on October 7, 2011 by laura

We’re excited that one of our top DB2 Geeks, Iqbal Goralwalla will be presenting on next weeks’ DB2Night Show.  His specialist subject will be DB2DART. There are several powerful and important commands in DB2 LUW and “db2dart” is among the … Continue reading →

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DBAs – who needs ‘em?!

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Iqbal

A cautionary tale of why not investing in skilled DBAs can have terrible consequences for the business. We received a frantic call one evening from a customer asking for immediate help. DB2 had “hung” and no activity could be performed … Continue reading →

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Beware of “over-federating”

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Iqbal

During a recent DB2-LDAP configuration at a client site, I stumbled upon a bizarre security exposure. Using any DB2 client tool, it was possible to connect to the database as any user without having to get the password right! Once … Continue reading →

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Day 2 at IDUG EMEA

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Iqbal

Today was basically a DB2 pureScale day for me and many midrange folks. Matt Huras and Aamer Sachedina gave excellent presentations giving an overview of pureScale and a deep dive into cluster services and monitoring and a walk-through hardware and … Continue reading →

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A Welcome Return To IDUG

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Iqbal

The feeling at this year’s IDUG EMEA conference in Vienna is almost nostalgic.  Gosh, has it really been 6 years since I last attended an IDUG conference?  I was frequently reminded of how long it’s been by my colleagues from … Continue reading →

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Five Days in the Labs – Part 1

Posted on June 18, 2010 by laura

Last month we were delighted to be given the opportunity to visit IBM’s research and development centre in Boeblingen, Germany.  Before I get on to what exactly we were doing there I’d like to share a little information about the … Continue reading →

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Triton are first IBM Business Partners in Europe to work with pureScale

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Administrator

We’re delighted to announce that we are the first IBM Busuiness partners in Europe to work with pureScale! Arguably IBM’s most important new feature for DB2 LUW, pureScale was anounced in October last year and quickly caught the attention of … Continue reading →

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Migration issues from DB2 V8.2 to DB2 9.5 on Sun Solaris 64-bit

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Iqbal

1.      During a recent migration exercise at a customer site the following error was encountered whilst migrating one of the databases: 2009-04-08-14.21.06.625141+060 E61438A838         LEVEL: Error (OS) PID     : 18892                TID  : 164         PROC : db2sysc 0 INSTANCE: db2inst1             NODE : 000 … Continue reading →

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DB2 9.5 not available for Linux on IA64

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Iqbal

For those of you using Linux on the Itanium-64 bit (IA64) platform, note that DB2 9.5 is not available for Linux on IA64. The last supported DB2 version for Linux on IA64 is DB2 9. This is because Linux on … Continue reading →

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