(Alicia Harvey, Travis Jeanneret, Thiam Cheng Lee, Rangarajan S Manavalan and Marty Trice) This IBM Redbook describes the major phases in a business integration project. First we discuss the planning and system design phase for a business integration infrastructure that should be able to support sev
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Trouble in the Kernel, VMware, and PostgreSQL
(Noel Davis) Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at problems in the Linux kernel, VMware, PostgreSQL, Squid, MySQL, mailman, Apple OSX HFS+, movemail with GNU Emacs or XEmancs, KStars, typespeed, awstats, and synaesthesi
INFO: A Stored Procedure to Display Trigger Information
The stored procedure outlined in the MORE INFORMATION section of this article will display information for triggers defined within a database. The report includes trigger name, trigger type, associated database, and the table on which the trigger is defined. This information is not available from sp
Manage Your Content
(Jeff Spicer) Years ago as a college student, I had a part-time job in the records room of a law office. “Records” was managed by a woman named Rita who enforced record and file policies in a consistent, somewhat intimidating manner. When attorneys and clerks requested files, only Rita and we part-t
Plan and Package
(Roger Sanders) What exactly do the terms plan and package mean in a DB2 UDB for Linux, Unix, and Windows context? Is it possible to run an application with only a package?
XML Content Management Made Easier
(Linda Briggs) Although the XML market has so far been focused mostly on data management and Web services, XML also works well for content management. With the right tools, it’s a natural for tracking information created by humans, including the contents of product manuals, technical material, Web s
IESG Announces Proposed IETF Working Group for Language Tag Registry Update
The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) has announced the submission of a proposal for a new IETF Working Group for ‘Language Tag Registry Update’ in the IETF Applications Area. The Steering Group requests comment on this proposal through March 2, 2005; it is expected that the creation of the
PHP Application Development Part One
(David Fells) Settling for the “quick and dirty” solution often costs far more time than it saves. This is as true of PHP coding practices as anything else. In this first article in the series, you will learn practices that will save you time and headaches in the long run, and help you write better
A Weekend With Indigo. Part 1: Simple Messaging
(Clemens Vasters) This weekend I will create some samples for myself as a foundation for learning and fiddling around with Indigo bindings. A “binding” is a combination of transport and behavior settings that binds a service contract to an endpoint and it is a conceptual and functional superset of w
Transaction Tracker
(Jony Safi) This query tracks the completion percentage of transactions in the database and identifies the running processes with their respective information (including user, program, module, and sql_text). It is very useful when tracking processes of long duration to estimate the execution time. I