(Willie Favero) Hot Topics Newsletter is being distributed in hardcopy at SHARE this week. It is published twice a year and usually packed with interesting article about stuff that runs in z/OS. One of the article authors pointed out a nice article covering DFSORT and the DB2 V8 Utilities (page 8).
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Hello World, Part 9: WebSphere Federation Server
(Diana Lau and Ivy Ho) Welcome to the ninth tutorial in the “Hello, World” series, which provides high-level overviews of IBM software products. This tutorial gives you an introduction to WebSphere Federation Server. It includes two practical exercises where you will create data sources from a DB2 d
101 Ways to Manipulate the DataGridView Control
(Wei-Meng Lee) One of the common controls that you will usually use in Windows Forms programming is the DataGridView control. The DataGridView control is a new control in Windows Forms 2.0 and it replaces the DataGrid control in Windows Forms 1.0. It is a very powerful and versatile control that is
Validation Application Block and ASP.NET Website Integration Sample – Enterprise Library 3.0
(David Hayden) One more example you can download associated with the Enterprise Library 3.0 Validation Application Block Presentation I gave at the South Florida Code Camp.
A Report From SHARE
(Craig Mullins) As regular readers of this blog know, I regularly attend and speak at the SHARE user conferences held twice annually. The Spring 2007 SHARE conference is being held this week, February 12 thru 16, 2007, in Tampa, Florida. It is now Wednesday, mid-way through the week, and time for me
.NET Tip: Exiting a Try/Catch Block
(Eric Smith) If you use a return statement within a Try/Catch block, there’s a behavior you need to be aware of in your code.
Scanning Ajax for XSS entry points
(Shreeraj Shah) The continuous adoption of Web 2.0 architecture for web applications is instrumental in Ajax, Web services and Flash, emerging as key components. Ajax is a combination of technologies such as JavaScript with the XMLHttpRequest object, DOM and XML streams. Cross site scripting (XSS)
Developing Simple PL/SQL Stored Procedures for CRUD Operations
(Jagadish Chatarji) In this article, I shall go through a set of PL/SQL stored procedures which are very frequently used for CRUD operations. These stored procedures are mainly helpful for the developers who develop client applications (involving business logic or user interface design and programmi
Native XML in Relational Databases
(Edmon Begoli) In my recent post I recommended three of my technology favorites – one of which were native-XML capable (relational) databases. In the next group of entries I will go into details of what this technology specifically means and how the contemporary databases support it.
Oracle 10g FlashBack Database
(David) A few days ago I ran into a problem with one of our development DB2 servers. A programmer in my team accidentally activated a Java Hibernate class with an option that truncates tables before loading them into memory. This resulted in most of our tables becoming empty (and I’m taking about so