DB2 Stored Procedures, user-defined functions, and triggers are becoming more prevalent on the mainframe, and can be part of a valuable implementation strategy. Use of these advanced database objects dramatically extends the capabilities of the database, and can be a performance benefit—or a perform

(Paul C. Zikopoulos) Data is the DNA of your business. It’s the stuff of which business projections are made, and it affects how decisions flow from those projections. It also informs the way the businesses measure their results. Although the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles don’t yet sugges

Stephen Londergan is an old hand at writing “…For Dummies” books. IBM Workplace Services Express For Dummies is his tenth title, including volumes for all Lotus Notes releases.

(Ted Holt) Are you tired of seeing commas (or whatever thousands separator you use) in dates when querying data with SQL? Are your users underwhelmed when you give them a quick-and-dirty report that has dates like 20,060,301 and 20,051,124 on it? Do you wish SQL had some way you could easily reforma

(Wei-Dong Zhu, Stephanie G Kiefer, Mike Adair, Martin Pepper and Henry Martens) This IBM Redbook covers a variety of topics relating to the practical application of IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms Version 7.1, z/OS Version 7.1, and iSeries Common Server Version 5.3. Where necessa

This paper covers IBM WebSphere Customer Center, the leading CDI solution available today, part of IBM’s MDM group of solutions. WCC is recognized by numerous industry analysts as having the highest number of successful worldwide implementations. (R)

(Chris Eaton) If you haven’t noticed by now I post a lot of stuff on what I find to be interesting SQL. I like to find ways to do more in the DB2 engine with a single call. Often folks don’t have the time to learn about all the abilities that DB2 SQL has available so over the next few […]

Here you have a healthy appetite. Since the Informix deal in 2001, IBM has acquired a whopping 16 companies in its Information On Demand initiative.

(Carla Sadtler, Philipp Huber and SangMin Yi) Successfully implementing an SOA requires applications and infrastructure that can support the SOA principles. Applications can be enabled by creating service interfaces to existing or new functions hosted by the applications. The service interfaces shou

(Kim Moutsos) Has IBM finally solved the age-old challenge of getting the right information into the right hands at the right time? Ambuj Goyal, new GM of Information Management Software, says it has. And now the company has the technology and the know-how to back up that claim.