(Michael Curry) IBM recently announced a unified metadata services infrastructure that’s designed to ease metadata management, access, and sharing within a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The IBM WebSphere Metadata Server will be generally available later this year as part of the Hawk release o

(Robert Uleman) Whether derived from address information, acquired by GPS devices, or otherwise generated, many databases contain geographic coordinates of point locations as separate numeric columns in a table. In this form, however, they are not usable for detecting spatial relationships by using

(Chris Eaton) The next new feature in Viper that I want to talk about is row compression. DB2 has a number of types of compression in v8. For example there is value compression where the storage space for nulls and system defined defaults can be compressed out. There is also MDC which results in sig

(Stephen White) The purpose of this Redpaper is to provide guidance for the preparation of business process models, developed with the WebSphere Business Modeler, which will ultimately be monitored by the WebSphere Business Monitor. The model preparation, including business measure development, and

(Geert Van de Putte and Dean Keister) If you do not know what you are trying to accomplish, the task is even harder to do. If you do not know how to do the task, it is even more difficult. How many times have you started to develop a solution before understanding the requirements — input data format

(Naveen Balani) Get an overview of various persistence-based frameworks for DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, including Hibernate, Java Data Objects (JDO), and Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC) 3.0. Build DB2 persistence-based applications employing the widely used Hiber

(Paolo Bruni, Marcelo Antonelli, Norbert Heck, John Jenkins and Ernie Mancill) IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS represents the effort on converging OMEGAMON XE for DB2 and DB2 Performance Expert into one product that retains the best features of each. This new tool gives you

(Jack Boswell) When you plan your eClient system, include performance planning to ensure that you have the right amount of disk space, system memory, and the correct software prerequisite level. (pdf)

(Lester Knutsen) It’s 11 o’clock. Do you know what your database users are doing? If not, you’re overlooking information that can help you identify performance bottlenecks and simplify other administration tasks.

(Alicia Harvey, Travis Jeanneret, Thiam Cheng Lee, Rangarajan S Manavalan and Marty Trice) This IBM Redbook describes three major phases in a WebSphere Business Integration (BI) project. We discuss the planning and system design for a WebSphere BI infrastructure designed to support several busin