(Jack Boswell) This article guides you through the installation of DB2 Content Manager Standard Edition for iSeries. The article discusses the installation of the prerequisite software, Content Manager, System Administrator Client, Windows Client, and the eClient. Use this information in conjunction

(Willie Favero) For this entry, I am going to stick with the disk management theme and step back in time to take a look at a DSNZPARM parameter that has been around forever, the SEQUENTIAL CACHE installation option or SEQCACH on DSNZPARM macro DSN6SPRM. This parameter is used to specify whether to u

(Kevin Yeung-Kuen See, Yung Chung and Henry Chan) Using Kerberos for authentication provides a central repository for user IDs (or principals), thus centralizing and simplifying principal or identity management. Learn how to set up a single Kerberos realm environment for DB2 Universal Database for L

(C. M. Saracco) The DB2 Viper release, now in beta, features significant new support for storing, managing, and querying XML data. In this article, learn how to query data stored in XML columns using SQL and SQL/XML. A subsequent article will illustrate how to query XML data using XQuery, a new lang

(Chris Eaton) In addition to the OLAP grouping functions there are other OLAP functions that can be used to help order rows or to show ordering within a grouping. The first of these is the RANK function. Rank will display the value of the rows order within a set. So for example if I have 10 rows in

(Rica Weller, Per Fremstad, Kiet Nguyen, Suresh Maddukuri and Rajesh Pericherla) This Redpaper is intended for system programmers and administrators who need an efficient way to identify problems, analyze them, and fix them so that they can deliver good support for the WebSphere Application Server f

(Willie Favero) I think for my next couple of posts, I’ll address stuff that revolves around disk. This first entry will be short but it covers something that I find a lot of people have trouble understanding. The use of virtual tape with DB2.

(Stuart Litel) In my role as president of the International Informix Users Group (IIUG), I answer a lot of questions from Informix users. Three questions in particular arise again and again: Are there any administrative tools to help me with Informix? Where can I get help with Informix performance?

(Robert Catterall) We’re considering going to DB2 data sharing to reduce planned outages. We’re currently using z/OS 1.4 (going to 1.7 in a few months) and DB2 V7 (at least a year away from V8). The Central Electronic Complex (CEC) is a 2064-107 running at about 85 percent in prime time. This CEC se

(Joe Pluta) “Web Services.” With the possible exception of “object-oriented” and maybe “grid computing,” there hasn’t been a more promise-laden phrase in Information Technology since “CASE.” And while the concept of Web Services hasn’t fizzled out like some of its peers (can you say “Extreme Program