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As a follow up to the DB2 Discovery Kit post, here is a link the the Updated IBM DB2 e-kit for Database Professionals

This new kit has a number of resources for migrating to DB2 from other databases, such as Oracle.

IBM just published fresh training videos for their CoudBurst Appliance.

“This video, based on five online lectures and five online demonstrations, provides in-depth information about WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance and WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition. It demonstrates how to: configure resources managed in the cloud; create virtual systems for deployment to the cloud; administer resources deployed to the cloud; and create a multiple image pattern and manage dynamic machines. ”

IBM CloudBurst Appliance Training Video

From the thread “My Quest for Understanding Business Intelligence” this comment was posted by Leslie Dudley:

Business Intelligence Background

A little off topic perhaps, but as an IT business intelligence worker who was interviewing during the economic downturn, I have a slightly different perspective. First, I found myself to be fortunate to be in one of the few growth fields. One of the reasons that the large consulting firms have been investing and focusing on the Business Intelligence field is because it was the first area to show growth activity during the most recent recession.

Business Intelligence and Technology

My other slightly off topic point is that the resurgence of interest in Business Intelligence technology is not a fad but the inevitable result of the major shift in media consumption in our culture. In BI IT we are the beneficiaries of the change in how our society consumes media. As a result of both a cultural shift and the recession, media spend moved from traditional to digital. The effect has been the rapidly growing influx of big data that makes it possible to measure the impact of the new media marketing – digital advertising, email, search, social media, site metrics, engagement.

Business Intelligence and Culture

The cultural shift has changed the context of business intelligence. No longer can spreadsheets and MS Access databases meet the needs of the business to identify actionable insights from data. The challenge of handling the pedabytes of data being generated by multiple sources is one that IT data warehousing workers are uniquely qualified to handle. The growth of business intelligence is not a fad, nor a recognition of IT, it is the ripple effect of the disruptive innovation going in technology, digital media and culture at large.

Business Intelligence in Context

I do agree that business intelligence is a business process. And I do agree that technology workers are being called on to meet the challenges of BI. But I don’t see a ‘BI Movement’. I see a broad cultural shift in the way we consume data and media.

Technologists with experience in handling and making sense of big data are rising to the challenge, and many others are trying to get on board a growth industry. Yes, many people want to learn more about the technology for managing and analyzing big data from disparate sources. It is at this point in time a growth field.

But the impetus is not BI technology: the movement changing the face and players in BI is not BI technology. We are downstream from more significant cultural shifts being played out by the success of disruptive innovations – google, search analytics, site analytics, ad-serving, social media, entertainment and news delivery. To get an idea of where our industry is heading look forward – to the semantic web.

Our role as workers with knowledge of handling and analyzing disparate, big data will grow and the opportunities will be in understanding semantic data, unstructured data and relationships. Marketing is moving ahead quickly now due to being nimble, fast and flush. Academia is lumbering forward with complex concepts, ontologies and methodologies. We are feeling the early rumblings of what will happen when the two begin intersecting.

Posted on LinkedIn by Leslie Dudley, member of the Business Intelligence Professionals group. More articles on Business Intelligence…

It has been almost a year that IBM acquired SPSS. Still many business users ask how to get more out of BI tools such as Cognos. Quoting IBM:

The combination of C8 BI and SPSS predictive analytics gives IBM customers more power and accuracy in answering the question of What should I be doing in the future? The combination of the powerful C8 BI analysis of current and historical data with the predictive analytic capability of the SPSS portfolio provides IBM customers with the predictive ‘brains’ for the next generation of decision making and business optimization.
The addition of the SPSS portfolio allows customers to leverage and extend their C8 BI investment by enhancing their analysis capabilities with predictive analytics. More specifically, the addition of SPSS predictive analytics helps analyze patterns found in historical and current transaction data as well as attitudinal survey data to predict potential future outcomes and proactively act upon that insight to drive better business outcomes.
Together with the market leading reporting and dashboarding capabilities of C8 BI, this predictive intelligence can be broadly distributed ensuring that decision makers across the organization gain those insights to drive business performance.

This may sound abstract, but in practical terms, with the ability to build sophisticated data models, SPSS enables extracting the essence of the heaps of data available today, and as a result dramatically reducing the time to present actionable information to decision makers. Still too abstract? By deploying models built with SPSS, decision makers can get answers to questions that otherwise might have required massive IT investment in more infrastructure, such as storage, memory and processing power. Want to know more? Don’t hesitate to contact us at +1-303-423-4500 or 888-642-7874.

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Since Windows Vista (that includes Windows 7), the place where programs store some of their information has changed. This makes finding the DB2 log files (equivalent of db2diag.log) more difficult.

Solution

The log files have moved under the directory tree node C:/Program Data/IBM/DB2/DB2COPY1/DB2. Under that directory there is a log and an events directory. This being Windows, the events directory has the logs that on Linux/Unix are the equivalent of the db2diag.log.

References

Windows Vista: Where is db2diag.log location?