(Chris Eaton) I got a bunch of questions on how to expand on the idea I showed in part 1 on how to easily populate a table with random data so I thought I would post a part 2 to answer some of these questions. I’m going to add in two additional techniques.

(Jacques J. Labrie and Kathryn Zeidenstein) Learn how to set up WebSphere Information Integrator Classic Federation for z/OS (called II Classic from this point on) and WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition (refered to as OmniFind from this point on) to crawl product information in a VSAM

Get a technical introduction to the low-cost, high-value DB2 Express database server and why it’s an excellent option for developers, mid-market businesses, and partners. During this Software Development Platform webcast, you’ll learn how easy it is to install DB2 Express, the robust and reliable in

(Pei Jun Chiang, Patricia Virtucio, Cataldo Mega, Anan Mahasintunan, Bruce Smith and Xin Chen) IBM DB2 Content Manager for Multiplatform V8.2 is an Enterprise-class application that customers might want to install and set up in a high availability configuration. Installing this kind of application

(Allan Tham) Mananging diverse databases is a way of life for most database administrators. It’s rarely the case for DBAs to simply manage a homogeneous set of databases. Often, in a corporate data center, you will have various back-end repositories such as data in the form of spreadsheets, images,

A well-known developer in the Visual Studio and Microsoft .NET community compares and contrasts SQL Server 2005 with IBM DB2 UDB 8.2, from the perspective of a Visual Studio 2005 developer. This study compares the core technologies used by both SQL Server 2005 and DB2 UDB 8.2, such as .NET Framework

(Daniel Wintschel) In this second tutorial of a three-part series, learn more about how you can improve persistence in your database-driven Java applications by combining Apache Derby’s power as a small-footprint embeddable database with the iBATIS object-relational (OR) mapping framework. In Part 2

(Willie Favero) Information about the IBM System z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) specialty engine is slowly beginning to slip out. This entry will just be a few links to other materials.

(Rica Weller, Per Fremstad, Kiet Nguyen, Suresh Maddukuri and Rajesh Pericherla) This Redpaper is intended for system programmers and administrators working with WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V6. It is targeted towards those who need to identify problems, analyze them and fix them in an effi

(Chris Eaton) Have you ever wanted to quickly populate a test table with data? Well here is a single SQL statement that you can use as a basis to add in dummy data into any table with as many rows as you need.