(Michael Jones) Many major product releases have a dizzyingly long list of new features and enhancements—often introduced atop a product that is in many cases so complex and feature-ridden that it’s already difficult to keep up with the breadth of the product. However, the wide feature sets also mea
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TechTip: It’s Easy to Join If You Know How to Chain
(James Gates) RPG programmers are quite familiar with the CHAIN op code. COBOL programmers are equally as familiar with the random READ by key. However, many iSeries programmers are not so familiar with SQL’s ability to join files. Recent conversations with other professional programmers have shown
Simple code to validate an XML file against a schema file (XSD)
(kubben) I had a need to validate a xml file against a schema file (xsd) in vb.net. So I wrote a simple app that could do this validation. While I was at it I decided it might be nice to validate the schema file all by itself. The basic core functions could be reused in your code to validate XML […]
Gartner: Oracle Strong In Databases, But It Must Execute On Applications
(Charles Babcock) Oracle, arguably the dominant database vendor, is bent on expanding its sales in middleware and applications. But any stumbles in its plan to merge three sets of business applications will benefit its chief competitor, SAP.
Introduction to architecting WebSphere Information Integrator solutions
(Jiri Stary) This tutorial gives you an introduction and broad overview of WebSphere Information Integrator. If you want to learn what information integration is, or have a business need to integrate information across your enterprises, and want to learn how your needs and requirements can be met us
A Simpler Ajax Path
(Matthew Eernisse) I began working with web applications back in the bad old days, when making an application behave like a desktop app meant wrestling with byzantine table-based layouts nested five and six levels deep, and horrid, hackish frame sets within frame sets within frame sets. Those were t
The Globalization of Language in Oracle – Index Requirements
(James Koopmann) First, I would like to put to bed a myth that I am sure will sprout up as more and more individuals venture down the implementation of maintaining multiple languages within their Oracle databases. There is a statement made that states it is a requirement to create an index for colum
FIX: You may receive a memory-related error message when you repeatedly create and destroy an out-of-process COM object within the same batch or stored procedure in SQL Server 2000
When you repeatedly create and destroy out-of-process Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) objects within the same batch or stored procedure in Microsoft SQL Server 2000, the memory used may grow continuously until the batch or the stored procedure has completed. The MemToLeave memory region may b
What is Validation?
(Kirk Haselden) I’ve never seen a good definition for what validation in IS is supposed to be or what it’s supposed to do anywhere. There is a lot of discussion about what components do when validating, but before launching into a discussion about it, I thought it would be helpful to give a little h
Achieving New Heights with DB2 UDB Version 8.2.2
(Paul C. Zikopoulos) DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for Linux, Unix, and Windows version 8.2, released last year, included a staggering 440 new or enhanced items. Recently, IBM released a significant follow-on that includes features inspired by SAP, but useful to all DB2 professionals.