(Willie Favero) There were more DB2 product documentation updated in February in addition to the ones I already listed in my February 2, 2008 More updated DB2 documentation post.

(Howard Goldberg) Imagine New York City rush hour traffic during the holiday season. If you’ve never been there, suffice it to say that there are far more cars than the streets can accommodate. Horns blare as frustrated drivers get stuck in the middle of an intersection and end up blocking oncoming

(Radhesh Kumar) In my last post, I showed two ways to perform string aggregation. Both of them used recursive SQL. I also mentioned that a built-in function to perform string aggregation would be preferred. Though, I have not found a direct function for string aggregation, one of the comments on my

(Willie Favero) I’m late on Friday, but at least it’s still Friday. I just arrived home from SHARE a few hours ago and it took until now to sort things out enough so I could post this today. BTW, I thought it’s supposed to warm in Florida? Orlando was freezing the last few days.

(Sonali Surange and Mark Jamison) Take a complete tour of Data Studio and pureQuery using Informix databases. Learn everything you ever wanted to know about working with your database and building applications in Data Studio within 40 minutes. (R)

(Robert Catterall) I’m posting this week from Orlando, Florida, USA, site of the winter meeting of the SHARE user group (www.share.org). I came here primarily for the purpose of delivering a presentation at the conference (the topic was SOA for DB2 people), but when I attend a conference as a speake

(Willie Favero) Last Tuesday wasn’t just a bunch of new hardware getting announced. IBM also had a preview of the next z/OS operating system, z/OS V1.10. z/OS just keeps getting cooler and cooler and if you are interested in the mainframes operating system, you really need to check out Tuesday’s (Fe

(Gene Kligerman) This article describes the design and development of a DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows security plug-in that retrieves user ID, group, and group membership information from a local or remote DB2 database. Use of this plug-in allows for the development of database applications that

(Jeff Kelly) IBM’s DB2 family of databases has been around a long time — since 1983 in fact. Originally available only on IBM mainframes, DB2 now comes in three distinct forms, including DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows. Yet with all the buzz surrounding Web 2.0 and Green IT, among other hyped-up te

(G Michael Connolly, Jo Johnston and Kevin Senior) WebSphere Process Server for z/OS forms part of the WebSphere Business Integration family of products that provide functionality for implementing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) on System z. (pdf)