(Philip K. Gunning) In this chapter we cover DB2 monitoring and start out with an introduction to the concepts of online monitoring and exception-based monitoring, and then address in detail the DB2 UDB monitoring facilities to use in order to conduct these two essential monitoring activities. (pd

(Michael Schwartz) This article explains the various content retrieval options you can use and when to use each one based upon my experience of working with DB2 Content Manager, Version 8. This article first provides a listing of all the content retrieval options with a description of each option, t

In Microsoft Host Integration Server, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following when you issue an SQL query statement: Server: Msg 7356,Level 16,State 1,Line 1 OLE DB provider ‘Provider Name’ supplied inconsistent metadata for a column. Metadata information was changed at

(Barbara Darrow) Ambuj Goyal, general manager of IBM’s Information Management group, talked with CRN about the group’s new free database and IBM’s view that information management is much more than databases. Goyal started his new gig in August. He had previously headed the IBM/Lotus group responsib

Developing robust database applications using DB2 Express has never been easier. This workshop is designed to help you enable your database applications with DB2 Express quickly so you can sell your solutions and not the database server. As an application provider you can benefit from the advanced c

(Barry L. Kline) As a long-time i5 bigot, my DBMS of choice is DB2. While I have read one anecdote concerning DB2 and corrupted data, my personal experience has been that DB2 is rock-solid, high-performance, SQL standards-compliant, and chock-full of interesting and useful extensions. There is no do

(Wei-Dong Zhu, Jorge A Andres, Kenneth S Christensen and Chun Liu) This IBM Redbook deals with IBM DB2 Content Manager implementation and migration. It is aimed at architects, designers, developers, and system administrators of Content Manager systems. (pdf)

A general solution for database backup and recovery depends on many aspects and is different for every mainframe shop. HP can provide an independent analysis of the customers’ situation and forecast a way to improve the current business by using new software and hardware techniques. This white paper

(Chris Eaton) If you are using DB2 DPF then you know that the db2start command will start up DB2 on all database partitions (across all servers) automatically. The way it does this internally is that it runs a remote shell on the remote partition and issues the start database manager code. As well,

(Grant Hutchison) DB2 Express-C is based on the same core technology as the DB2 Universal Database (UDB) Express Edition V8.2.2 product. DB2 Express-C is available on Linux and Windows platforms (32- and 64-bit) as a no-charge download from IBM. IBM introduced DB2 Express-C, a version of DB2 Univers