This question and answer article features Ambuj Goyal, General Manager, IBM Information Management Software. Prior to his current role, Dr. Goyal served as general manager for IBM Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software, where he helped make IBM the industry leader in messaging, collaboration,

(Chris Eaton) you follow industry news articles, you may have already seen the press on the latest announcement from IBM. Today IBM announced that it will be investing $1 billion to expand its information management software development. As well IBM is dedicating 15,000 practitioners (and growing t

(Craig S Mullins) VSAM is used “under the covers” of every DB2 page set. VSAM is also used as the storage mechanism by some IMS databases. It is also used to store a lot of mainframe data outside the control of any DBMS. But there is a lot of confusion about what exactly VSAM is, how it can be used,

(Robert Brunner) This article is the first in a new series, “Developing with Apache Derby — Hitting the Trifecta,” which is devoted to exploring the software technology developed by the Apache Derby project. The software released by the Apache Derby project is an open source database system based o

(Charles Garry) Opinion: IBM made a smart move when it decided to introduce DB2 Express-C as a free download for database developers. But it should act more boldly to improve its position in the Windows/Linux market and show leadership in licensing trends.

The growing need to make sensitive information more broadly available to individuals within and outside of an organization greatly increases the opportunity for malicious activity and misuse. Perimeter and point security solutions cannot adequately protect sensitive data at rest from these threats,

(Rica Weller, David Bonaccorsi, David J Brett, Steve Matulevich, Carl Parris, Michael M Poirier, Julie Reese and Ken Rogers) This Redpaper will help systems programmers and WebSphere administrators exploit WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation (WBISF) functions. It covers the functional i

IBM is working to expand the adoption of its DB2 database server, giving users three new options: a specialty processor designed to handle data-intensive workloads on the mainframe, an upgrade of DB2 for z/OS, and a free version of DB2.

(Glenn Robinson) In a previous article, I showed how managing DB2 on the iSeries is made easy using iSeries Navigator (iNav). This functionality extends beyond just being able to work with the different types of objects in a library (or schema), but also to executing SQL statements via a GUI as well

(Chris Eaton) On February 14, 2006 IBM delivered another first in TPC-C. The first to break the 1 million tpmC mark with only 16 processor cores. DB2 8.2 running on a 16way eServer p5 570 delivered 1,025,169 tpmC. This is the first time any vendor has delivered this level of performance on only 16 p