Combining the worlds of Artificial Intelligence, gigantic volume of data on millions of cancer patients and the expertise of the world’s top oncologists, Watson has made available the latest of cancer treatment to patients all over the world The word “cancer” is a word that no one wants to hear when they talk to their doctor. The word brings forth an image of struggle, desperation and unhappiness. Cancer doesn’t discriminate between rich and poor, young… read more →
Many users of COGNOS Data Manager are not aware of the retirement of COGNOS Data Manager and IBM’s guarantee of free replacement by Datastage workgroup edition (which is a much more powerful ETL tool). In this video, Rajeev discusses why we should think about migration from COGNOS Data Manager to Datastage and how to go about doing it, in a way that provides the best long-term benefit to the organization.
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In IBM InfoSphere Information Server Suite, authentication is done against a user registry which by default is an internal registry stored in the Metadata repository. This however, can be altered to authenticate against an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) registry or the local operating system registry. Authentication happens at 2 levels in IBM InfoSphere Information Suite. 1. Authentication at services level – This controls the access to the shared services, repository and its contents 2.… read more →
IBM DataStage Operations Console Introduction Are your jobs hanging up or failing? When a large volume of jobs are either submitted or are run simultaneously in a small time frame, the system is put under extreme load to manage all of the processes. IBM DataStage Operations Console can help in several ways! Operations Console and Workload Management are now part of the base Information Server installation. In this post, we will provide an overview of… read more →
Using Workload Management to Optimize Operations Console Introduction In our previous blog, we gave readers an overview of the Operations Console and its components. This post will continue on the topic of Operations Console, but will focus mainly on Workload Management and how using it can optimize overall engine performance. With the release of v11.3, Workload Management is now by default enabled. IIS Workload Management’s main role is to monitor the machine resource usage, keep… read more →
Change Data Capture (also known as Data Replication or Mirroring) is a data transfer technology that uses an incremental data loading technique to transfer data from source to target databases. While several data integration technologies and tools such as ETL, ELT, EAI and MQ are already available in the market, Change Data Capture (CDC) is different in that it minimizes the data transfer latency between a record entry in the primary database (e.g. OLTP) and the record… read more →