There is often a time gap between the time a file is created and the time some person or product turns on journaling protection for this newly-created object. In some environments, that time gap represents a risk: What if an application adds data to this new object before journal protection is ena

(Dale Vile) One of the central components in IBM’s software strategy is WebSphere Portal. This provides a framework for delivering convenient integrated access for employees, customers or partners into the complex and often fragmented world of corporate IT systems. From a development perspective, we

(Chenhong Xia) This tutorial series teaches you how to create proof-of-concept Windows and Web applications to access relational and XML data in IBM DB2 Viper, using Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2005. Part 1 explains the application specifications and illustrates how to create the relational database

(Deb Jenson) How will DB2 Viper’s hybrid XML-relational data server work in the real world? You can join the customers and partners who are revving the engine, kicking the tires, and checking performance and handling. Here’s what to look for when you take it out for a spin.

(Chris Eaton) As you may be aware, there are several technologies in DB2 v8.2 (and prior releases) that allow you to break up your data into smaller “chunks” to enable greater parallelism for queries, allow for partition elimination in queries and in general help improve performance. For example, Mu

(Wei-Dong Zhu, Carlos A Cedillo, Irina Grijalba, Nicole Hughes, Romney Kernek, Lai-Fong Leung and Steve Studer) IBM DB2 Document Manager Version 8.3 is one of the newest members of the IBM Enterprise Content Management portfolio. Document Manager provides a secure and robust platform to manage the c

(Carmen K. Wong and Stan Musker) LBAC is a security feature introduced in the DB2 Viper release. With LBAC, administrators can control read and write access of user to a table column and row level. This tutorial includes use-case scenarios that demostrate how users can apply LBAC to protect their da

(Willie Favero) This is just a reminder that on Thursday of this week (May 18, 2006), Roger Miller (IBM SVL) will be doing a webcast on DB2 Version 9 for z/OS titled “DB2 V9.1 for z/OS Launched Beta Program”, covering the latest release of DB2 just recently announced. If you are not familiar with Ro

(Justin Whitney) With the release of DB2 v9, aka Viper, IBM has debuted what could be considered the world’s first hybrid XML and relational database. In other words, if there is such a thing as native XML management, Viper has it. But it also has a lot more.

(Vasantha Jayakumar) The IBM Database Add-Ins for Visual Studio 2005 provides significant enhancements to application development using DB2 databases, tight integration with Microsoft Server Explorer, and enhanced debugging. It introduces IBM Designers to create database objects and includes several