(Alex Woodie) PowerTech has inked a deal with Innovatum to resell DataThread, a powerful database monitoring tool designed to provide real-time alerts into DB2/400 events for security and regulatory compliance purposes.

(Willie Favero) One of the interesting (and unexpected in my opinion) features of DB2 10 for z/OS is a customer’s ability to upgrade to DB2 10 directly from DB2 Version 8 new function mode (NFM), without having to go through DB2 9.

(Craig S. Mullins) One of the most important contributors to the on-going efficiency and health of your DB2 environment is proper management of DB2 access path changes. A thorough REBIND management process is a requirement for healthy DB2 applications.

(Dave Beulke) DB2 offers application designers new functionality for their data warehousing requirements. The new DB2 10 Temporal Tables provide a way to have a snapshot in time of the status of customers, orders or any other type of business situation.

(Bharath N S and Nandish S. Kori) This article examines a scenario for encoding and decoding a document to enhance security using the FileNet Web Application Toolkit to customize IBM FileNet P8 Workplace. It also includes a look at the toolkit architecture in the context of saving a document.

(Susan Visser) There is a new white paper that I recently learned about that I thought I would pass on to you:

(Scott Hayes) During February 2011, nearly 40 contestants competed in DB2’s GOT TALENT for 10 Finalist positions! Our judges made tough decisions! We’ve narrowed the contestants and their tips and lessons learned down to the “best of the best”!

(Christina Lau and Valentina Birsan) If your goal is to leverage cloud environments as an additional avenue to deliver your software, the best practices described in this article (with more to come) demonstrate how to design your applications to achieve a successful cloud-based deployment model.

(Willie Favero) Last year DB2 changed the REORG to allow ranges to be specified. However, this change had REORG processing these groups of ranges serially… when one range finished, the next range started. So Db2 was changed to do the ranges in parallel.

Conclusion of a two part series that tells the story of two villagers who break free from the baron’s taxes in the Town of Orrible and flee to the wonderful town of DB2 where they flourish.