(Susan Visser) This year at the IBM Information on Demand Conference, we have five NEW Flashbooks to give out to attendees for free. What are flashbooks? These are the small and easy-to-read books that we created especially for our IOD audience. I’m really happy with the topics we’ve managed to

(Louis Mau and Klaus Roder) Developers of all kinds may occasionally find a need to build an application that makes simple updates to a database table. This article describes how to build an IBM® Mashup Center widget that can display an HTML form that lets users update relational database tables. Op

(Scott Hayes) In episode #28, special guest Mike Winer, IBM STSM & DB2 Kernel Architect, shared with us the latest news and enhancements for Range Partitioned Tables in DB2 9.7. Mike specifically discussed Partitioned Indexes and their many benefits, impacts on DB2 logging, high availability during

(Paolo Bruni, John Iczkovits, Hennie Mynhardt and Peter Zerbini) This IBM Redbooks publication can help you tailor and configure DFSMS constructs to be used in an IBM DB2 9 for z/OS environment. In addition, it provides a broad understanding of new disk architectures and their impact in DB2 data s

(Kent Milligan) With IBM DB2 for i, parallel processing is useful for more than just queries. Batch processing, data loads, and index builds can all occur much faster if you use multiple processors to do that work.

(Paul Mayhew) Some time ago, I had the requirement to sample data from a table to do validation work. Basically, we wanted to validate syncronized data with a base table, but could not afford to compare every row. We had to come up with a way to ‘sample’ the data. Each table we had to sample had

(Julian Stuhler) Despite the traditional news dead zone as many people take a well-earned summer holiday, this month has seen a couple of interesting announcements from IBM which will impact many of us over the next year or two.

(Nikhil Mayaskar, Nitin Chaturvedi and Rajanikant Malviya) This package contains a simple Custom Java Authentication Provider based on flat files. It’s very handy for off-line setups or test installs, doesn’t require any other 3rd software.

(Robert Catterall) A couple of years ago, on my Catterall Consulting blog, I posted an entry in which I urged mainframe DB2 people to take advantage of 64-bit addressing, a capability that debuted with DB2 for z/OS Version 8 and which allowed, among other things, the allocation of very large buffer

(Sandhya Turaga, Abhigyan Agrawal, Kathy Zeidenstein and Mario Briggs) When extended with the downloadable IBM Integration Module, the IBM Optim pureQuery Runtime simplifies the process of generating DB2 static SQL for Hibernate and iBATIS applications. It does this without requiring you to make cha