(Saida Davies and Peter Broadhurst) This IBM Redbook describes the fundamental concepts and benefits of message queuing technology. (pdf)

(Rita-Lyn Sanders) Not too long ago, SQL’s popularity waned like that of a glazed fruitcake at a holiday banquet. But with the enhancements expected out in V5R4 next year, one might think of structured query language as the spiked eggnog at a company bash.

A recent decision by customer, Maddocks Systems Inc. to move from supporting a multi-database environment to one that is standardized on IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) Express Edition, Version 8.2 will enable Maddocks to provide ERP solutions that deliver market-leading autonomic features, better

(Robert Morris) The mainframe death knell has tolled prematurely more than once. This workhorse refuses to die, largely because it continues to deliver maximum availability, scalability and performance to the enterprise. Now, service-oriented architecture (SOA) promises to extend this value beyond t

(Chris Eaton) If you are a command line junkie then hopefully this posting will help you out a bit. Personally I use both the command line and the GUI tools. If I’m doing something for the first time, I often pull up the Control Center to go through the dialogs as this can be a lot easier than going

IT departments today have to deal with tightening budgets and shrinking staffs. The luxury of being a single platform DBA is becoming a thing of the past. Many DBA’s are being required to support multiple DBMS’s on multiple platforms. Many IT shops today are running a combination of Oracle and D

(John B. Rollins and Richard Hale) Leading-edge companies use data mining to make — and profit from — better business decisions. But data mining technology is complex, and successful projects usually require the support of expensive statisticians.

(Rainer Dzierzon, Klaus Nossek and Michael Menze) Regarding portlets, this article focuses on standardized portlets following the Java Portlet Specification, JSR 168, and the corresponding implementation in WebSphere Portal. The basis for this article is WebSphere Portal V5.1 or higher, although mos

(Jarek Miszczyk) XML represents a fundamental change in computing. It allows applications to move away from proprietary file and data formats to a world of open data interchange. XML has become ubiquitous not only because of its range of applications, but also because of its ease of use. Its text-ba

(Paul Krill) Researchers at IBM are developing stream-based middleware intended to broaden query capabilities in distributed application environments.