(Paula Rooney) Mainsoft’s partnership with IBM will help ISVs, partners and customers move .Net applications to Linux and IBM WebSphere.

(Willie Favero) After all the work you went through getting to new function mode (NFM), what’s the reward for your effort? This entry will be nothing more than a laundry list of function delivered with NFM.

(Ehab AbuShmais) IT security is a vital component of business success. Guessing passwords is one of the most common attack methods that a system experiences. Therefore, controlling, managing, and monitoring your application password-restriction policy is essential. This article provides you with a s

When you try to retrieve data by using the Microsoft Host Integration Server 2000 DB2OLEDB driver through a linked server from AS/400, you may receive an error that is similar to the following: Server: Msg 7347, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 OLE DB provider ‘DB2OLEDB’ returned an unexpected data len

(Fraser McArthur and Samuel Poon) Learn the ins and outs and explore the performance and scalability advantages of the IBM DB2 Universal Database Data Partitioning Feature (DPF) in DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Then, walk through the steps to install and configure DB2 with DPF on SUSE Linux

(Robert Catterall) What’s your recommendation for performing DB2 v.7 traces running under z/OS V1R4 in a production environment? Our tracing, implemented via zPARMs, consumes precious CPU cycles and real memory and also fills up the SYS1.MANx datasets with type 100-102 records in the SMF infrastruc

(Tamas Vilaghy, Rich Conway, Kim Patterson, Rajesh P Ramachandran, Robert W St John, Brent Watson and Frances Williams) The objective of this IBM Redpaper is to help you understand the performance implications of the different connectivity options from WebSphere Application Server for IBM z/OS to CI

(Bill Winter) Recent government regulations and market demand have increased requirements for protecting data resources. Data encryption is an important tool to help application developers meet the need for greater security. This article describes the encryption options available in IBM UniData and

(Justin Whitney) It’s all about options. That seems to be IBM’s motto as they continue to expand DB2 functionality across all development platforms. What might once have been a strange bedfellow is fast becoming just another tool for DB2 programmers as IBM continues to put the “universal” in “Univer

(Chris Eaton) You may have read that the last release of DB2 (8.2.2) was specifically Optimized for SAP. What exactly does that mean? Well in this and the next few postings I’ll describe exactly what new features were in 8.2.2 and how, if you are using SAP (and even if you are not), you can take adv