Category Archives: James Gill

A wintry morning in Prague….

….and two DB2 Geeks are taking part in the DB2 Seek the Geek Quiz! James and Iqbal of Triton Consulting give the DB2 Seek the Geek quiz a run-through.  If you’re there, make sure you enter.  The first step is … Continue reading

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Looking forward to IDUG EMEA

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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DB2 pureScale availability demo – Member Failure & Recovery

In this video our resident DB2 pureScale expert, James Gill shares a live demonstration of what happens when a member fails in a DB2 pureScale cluster. For more information on DB2 pureScale visit www.triton.co.uk/purescale/

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Five Days in the labs – Part 2. DB2 pureScale Coupling Facility

By James Gill We were lucky enough to get an opportunity to spend a week in the IBM Boeblingen Labs in Germany, to get some hands on experience with DB2 9.8 – pureScale – or Data Sharing on mid-range.  The … Continue reading

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Five Days in the Labs – Part 1

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

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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“If you’re a retailer with a high volume online transaction environment then DB2 pureScale is going to be absolutely ideal for you”

In our first Confessions of a DB2 Geek podcast we chat to two of our DB2 experts about pureScale and what this important new release means for organisations running DB2 on midrange platforms. An ideal fit for the retail sector, … Continue reading

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Coupling Facility Sizing Tool

Just a short blog entry this week: If you find yourself trying to build a parallel sysplex, one of the things you’ll need to do is establish how big your coupling facility (CF) needs to be. IBM provide a handy … Continue reading

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TWS – Export and Import

I had to set up 10 TWS batch schedules this week, and baulked a bit at the idea of going through the admin tool and clicking them all in. Following a discusion with a colleague, I came across a TWS … Continue reading

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RESTORE.EXE Updated – 64-bit DB2 Support

As the title says, restore.exe (automated redirected restore with TSM support) has been tested against DB2 UDB V8.2 on Windows 2003 Server 64-bit (64-bit instance) and works. Next port will be to Linux 32-bit. Porting to 64-bit will be problematic … Continue reading

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