Version 1.9.0 of the ibm_db2 extension for PHP has been released. Changes include:

(Xin Yu Zhou and Gai Li) There are numerous enhancements in the IBM ECM Widgets 4.5.2 release, including the Content List widget event enhancements. The new events enable displaying documents, changing the search, requesting selected rows, sending selected rows, and creating custom actions. This art

(Paul Mayhew) The db2pd command is a relatively new command (released with version 8.2) that will tell you a huge amount of information about your db2 system. I first made myself familiar with it when looking for a way to get the status of HADR without going through a snapshot output.

(Troy Coleman) Those new to z/OS may be unfamiliar with the terms APAR and PTF.

(Jeff M. Sullivan) DB2 for z/OS partitioning has a primary motivation of increasing data availability and throughput. Release changes to DB2 have made manageability even easier, but a DB2 DBA still needs to initially size for space and size for managability. The focus of this article is about right-

(Willie Favero) Occasionally I publish a blog on Friday feature APARs that I consider more than worthy of follow. Although today’s post is about an APAR, I think this is too important (too cool) to simply run as just another “APAR Friday” post.

This is a recording of the DB2 Chat with the Lab webcast on pureScale held on Aug 31, 2010 . Drew Bradstock is the featured speaker.

(Stephan Jou, William Lee, Thanh Pham and Biraj Saha) Just like in a traditional data center, the deployment of Cognos into the cloud may require multiple machines, so your cloud solution may require multiple images. Criteria such as performance, scalability and high availability typically lead to a

(Susan Visser) I’m aware of three important webinars that are planned for the next few weeks that you should consider attending:

(Rebecca Bond) I’m going to be presenting a session on IBM DB2 LUW Security at IBM Information on Demand 2010 In Las Vegas in October. I guess the whole Vegas theme is getting to me. I have been thinking a lot about “odds” recently. I don’t just mean “odds” like the ones at the gaming tables, althou