(Willie Favero) Long data; something we seem to see more and more. Whether it’s a purchased package, current design requirements, or the language being used, VARCHAR is popping up everyplace.

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(Dustin Amrhein, David Brauneis, Ruth Willenborg and Leigh Williamson) Automating the processes of building and deploying IBM WebSphere Application Server environments and the software that gets deployed to these environments can prove extremely beneficial for organizations of all sizes. By automati

(Robert Catterall) Earlier this week, we in the Atlanta DB2 Users Group were treated to a day with Roger Miller, the ebullient IBMer who, more than anyone else, has been the “face” of the DB2 for z/OS development organization since the product debuted more than 25 years ago (Roger spends a great dea

(Craig Mullins) Let’s go back in time… almost three decades ago… back to the wild and woolly 1980s! And watch our favorite DBMS, DB2, grow up over time.

(Joe Lennon) We live in a connected and open world, one where data flows freely and where a vast amount of useful information can be found on the Web. In the past, if you wanted to find where the nearest store for your favorite retailer was located, you would probably look it up in the telephone dir

(Willie Favero) Back on March 3rd, I published a blog entry with details about the DB2 -ACCESS command delivered in DB2 9 for z/OS. In that post I made the comment that I was “disappointed” in the syntax available on the command; you had to list out each object individually, no shorthand method was

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(Bharath N S and Srikanth Ganesan) This article helps you to integrate existing systems in different industries, such as finance and travel, using the FileNet P8 workflow. The article gives a step-by-step description of the tasks involved to activate a Message Driven Bean (MDB) by posting messages o

(Henrik Loeser) I recently wrote about LOB Inlining, a new feature in DB2 9.7. It allows to store LOBs together with the actual row data and thereby save space and in most cases improve performance.