(Troy Coleman) Have you ever wished you could find the name of the plan your program is executing in? Or have you wanted to know which DB2 version you’re running in, what DB2 mode you’re executing under or the type of encoding that’s being used?

(Willie Favero) Well, we’re at it again. We are once again attempting to get the Houston Area DB2 User Group functional.

(Antonio Marziano, Andreas Weber and Chris Shepherd) This document is meant to supplement the Security and Administration Guide of IBM Cognos 10 by providing sophisticated examples for customizing the login page. The examples provided shall support the understanding of the possibilities and flexibil

(Susan Visser) Install, customize, and administer the powerful FileNet enterprise content management platform.

(cherry.shu) With the new self tuning feature in DB2 V9.x, a lot of database parameters are set to automatic in DB2 v9.7 by default so that DB2 can adjust the values as needed.

(Xing Xing Shen, Jia Tian Zhong, Shu Pang and Carol L Ramler) Column-level encryption support is one of the major headline DB2 features in the IBM i 7.1 release. The DB2 for i 7.1 support enables transparent column-level encryption implementations with a field-level exit routine known as a field pro

This technique prevents Framework Manager from publishing packages to a given IBM Cognos 8 environment by leveraging a Servlet Filter. This file contains a document next to binaries implementing the technique.

(Willie Favero) Sorry about that.. my bad… It seems like lately I have been so focused on things DB2 10, that I forget that there are still other very active Db2 versions floating.

(Matthias Nicola) XML processing is at the core of many middleware systems, often to route, split, or modify XML messages, or to extract values from them. Frequently, such XML processing is implemented with XSLT stylesheets or in application code with DOM or SAX parsers.

(Serge Rielau) In the first post of this “mini-series” I introduced inline SQL PL and compiled SQL PL; when they were introduced along with a time line of added capabilities.