(Barbara Darrow) IBM said the next release of its Workplace Managed Client 2.6, due early next year, will support ODF version 1.0. ODF is an XML standard blessed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

(Chris Eaton) Another new CLP goody that came out in 8.1.2 is that you can customize the command prompt. Now that may sound like a trivial thing, not worth the time it takes to customize it but if you work on a lot of servers at the same time and have multiple DB2 session CLPs up on your screen in […]

In the report “IBM’s DB2: Database for Enterprises’ Masses” dated October 4, 2005, analyst Jonathan Eunice at Illuminata shows why DB2 stands alone for enterprises’ data coordination, integration and analytic requirements. (pdf)

(Torsten Steinbach) Recursive SQL is a powerful means to query hierarchies of data. Organizational structures (department, sub-departments, sub-sub-departments and so on), discussion forums (posting, response, response to response etc.), bills-of-material, product classifications and document hierar

(Philip K. Gunning) Monitoring database performance is critical for companies to succeed in today’s demanding 24 x 7 On-Demand economy. There is little or no allowance for business slowdowns or outages due to poor performing or unavailable DB2 UDB databases. The number of experienced DBAs available

(Allan Tham, Cengiz Satir and Edward Huang) IBM offers many products, solutions and services in the area of information management. Deciding which fits your need best can be overwhelming. This series of articles introduces the IBM DB2 Content Manager family products for a better understanding and po

Announcing the new "IBM Database add-ins for Visual Studio 2005" – Developer Release. This no-charge web download will be made available in December 2005 for .NET developers to use with the DB2 family of servers. With this new set of add-ins and DB2 .NET 2.0 data provider developers can reduce devel

(Nin Lei) When tuning a database for better performance, one area to examine is the proximity of the database to the application. Can the database be located on the same server as the application? Will a database server located far away from the application server cause performance degradation? To a

(Nelson King) IT departments are on an quest to put business intelligence (BI) into the hands of the people who need to understand it and use it — nonspecialists, line-of-business managers, sales reps, and CEOs. The path to fulfilling this quest is clear, but hardly easy: Take a vast mountain of bus

(Kevin Yeung-Kuen See, Sushma Narisetty, Raul F. Chong and Il-Sung Lee) Part 1 of this article series presents the DB2 security model, and discusses how user and group accounts interact with DB2 Universal Database (UDB). Part 2 of this series focuses on DB2 security plug-ins, the new method that imp