(Willie Favero) I once asked my wife where my glasses were. Her reply: “You’re wearing them”. Am I trying to demonstrate that I’m not all that bright, or perhaps extremely absentminded? No, not exactly. So, why start an entry this way? To illustrate the point that there is so much information out th

(Ted J. Wasserman) A series of articles about IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2 UDB) V8.2 security features would not be complete without a discussion of the different administrative authority levels and privileges. This article is the fourth part of a series that examines

(Grant Hutchison) Visitors to Developer.com recently selected IBM Cloudscape as their favorite DBMS or Related Technology product of the year for 2005 — a choice that reflects the growing interest in open-source databases.

The popularity of DB2 UDB running on distributed platforms continues to grow. The sudden growth and popularity of DB2 on distributed platforms has resulted in a shortage of experienced non-mainframe DB2 DBAs. IT departments today have to deal with tightening budgets and shrinking staffs. Many DB

(Whei-Jen Chen, Hiromichi Shinozaki, Kevin Taylor, Marcia Miskimen and Yasir Warraich) IBM DB2 Recovery Expert for Multiplatforms (RE) provides an enhanced data recovery solution that enables more precise recovery operations while reducing disruption during the recovery process. Recovery Expert

(Paul C. Zikopoulos) In Part 1 of this series, I covered the IBM Explorer and its unique features that help .NET application developers write applications for the IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) product family. In Part 2, I introduced you to a set of schema creation wizards that let you point-a

(Laurence Moroney) Experience shows that it’s a challenge getting applications to run across a diverse array of software and hardware platforms with acceptable availability, performance, scalability, and security. As such, several methodologies and standards of integration or interoperability have

(Willie Favero) It’s finally time to pull the big trigger and start using all of that DB2 for z/OS Version 8 stuff you’ve heard so much about. The planning has been completed, you ran the IVPs and performed all of the testing under Compat Mode, and migrated the catalog during ENFM. Now you are ready

(Muhammad Mosa) ADO.NET is a collection of .NET classes that you can use to access data in different kinds of data store.

(Debbie Branco, Tom McGary and Wai-ki Yip) In this article, we discuss how you can work with the new IBM DB2 integration features offered in Lotus Domino 7.