db2top Performance Report

Up to now, we have been looking mostly at db2top as a tool for observing the behavior of your system in real-time, but background mode and recording and playback has shown us that db2top can […]

db2top Display Settings

When a monitoring or reporting tool reaches a certain level of sophistication, it needs to be able to report on itself as well. The db2top tool has a large number of configurable options, so it […]

db2top Native Snapshot

The db2top tool, on each of its various screens, presents a subset of the full capabilities of the DB2 snapshot monitor. In this post, we’ll see how you can use the native snapshot feature to […]

New in DB2 for LUW 9.7.2: UDF default parameters

IBM released DB2 for LUW 9.7.2 recently and, along with numerous quality improvements, there were a number of interesting new features. In today’s post, I will talk about the “default parameters in UDFs” feature and […]