(James Chamberlain and David Quenzler) This IBM Redpaper describes integration scenarios related to WebSphere Everyplace Device Manager and WebSphere Everyplace Subscription Manager. The scenarios are using a WebSphere Everyplace Subscription Manager interface with WebSphere Everyplace Device Manage

(Paul C. Zikopoulos) Since its Version 8.2.2 release, also known as Fix Pack 9, the IBM DB2 Universal Database product (DB2 UDB) has provided the capability for a concurrent data reader to access more than one result set in the same database connection and query both of those result sets concurrentl

(Chris Eaton) If you are not familiar with it, the Rosetta stone was a huge breakthrough for archeologists. It was a stone carved in 196 B.C. containing religious text written in 3 different languages (greek, hieroglyphic, and a common Egyptian script). By using this stone, archeologists were able t

(Chris Eaton) Now let’s move on in our discussion of DB2 for LUW and DB2 for z/OS by covering some of the memory structures (address spaces). First let’s take a look at bufferpools. The concept is exactly the same but the implementations and allocations are slightly different. In DB2 for z/OS your b

(Brian Fonseca) In an effort to join the move toward virtualization, IBM is building a software tool to enable customers to change data sources or rules that govern data without affecting applications.

(Kim Moutsos) Everyone — from customer-facing employees to line-of-business managers to CEOs — is clamoring for the information necessary for better decisions. Meanwhile, government and industry agencies are demanding more and more reporting and transparency. Designing a business intelligence system

(Martin Norman) I mentioned in a recent article on authentication that the use of biometrics for authentication had not yet been widely adopted in the midrange space. But recent technological changes in the area of fingerprint recognition and the focus of some of the providers of these solutions sug

(Paul C. Zikopoulos) Did you know that the IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) product has arguably the best support for .NET in today’s database industry? In this series of articles, I want to take you through some of the tooling productivity benefits that a DB2 UDB developer can leverage when pro

(Connie Lam) The connection concentrator is a new feature in IBM DB2 Universal Database, Version 8.0 (DB2 UDB). The new feature addesses the need for handling a large number of incoming connections that have very short-lived transactions but relatively large delays. This feature offers the following

(Dwaine R. Snow) Review your tables and table spaces to see how much they have grown in the past month. By knowing how fast the tables and table spaces are growing, and how much space is still available, you can detect potential space issues before they happen.