(Raymond Wong and Jane Kohn) IBM DB2 Content Manager V8.3 Portlets V3.1 provides numerous new features and significant enhancements over previous releases of DB2 Content Manager V8.2 Portlet. It has also been extended to utilize the services provided by the DB2 Content Manager V8.3 server to support

(Chris Eaton) Regardless of the locking mechanisms used by a database, the best way to get the most throughput and improve concurrency is to know the requirements of your application. If you know the expected behavior of the application and the business requirements, there may be some things you can

(Paul C. Zikopoulos) In Part 1 of this series, I covered the richness of the IBM Explorer and its unique features that help .NET application developers write applications that run against the IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) family on any platform. The DB2 UDB add-ins for Microsoft Visual Studio

(Michael A. Ahern) Integrate the IBM DB2 Content Manager V8.3 eClient with another application using the eClient as the controlling, or initial, application and invoke the other application to perform that application’s business functions.

(Michael L. Gonzales and Kevin Downey) Most vendors in the data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) space focus only on conventional structured data. In fact, with regard to data integration discussions, individuals involved in data warehousing and BI almost never contemplate data beyond the ob

(Edson Manoel, Desmond Krishna, Randy R. Watson and Creighton Hicks) IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms monitors and automates applications distributed across Linux, AIX, and z/OS operating systems by introducing a new product structure with two major components: – IBM Tivoli System

(Willie Favero) For today’s entry, I thought I would stick with the Unicode theme just a little longer.

(Sandeep Patil) DB2 UDB provides a framework for writing customized security plug-ins that administrators can use for DB2 UDB authentication. This framework, introduced with DB2 UDB V8.2, also supports plug-in authentication based on Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface (GSS-AP

(Chris Eaton) Another new table function shipped in 8.2.2 (8.1 fixpack 9) is the REG_LIST_VARIABLES function. This table function will list all the registry variables used by the current database you are connected to. Here is an example of calling this function.

(Willie Favero) Unicode is an interesting subject. For some reason there still seems to be a lot of confusion on the subject. Unicode is one of those things that looks new yet has been around for a long time. Although it has been an optional part of DB2 on the OS/390 and z/OS platforms since Ver