(Judith Myerson) The SOX Act was created to reduce the likelihood of prominent cases of financial fraud in publicly held companies. The 800-page gorilla, however, does not reduce the likelihood of executives facing hefty penalties for not complying. Its primary aim is to improve internal controls fo

(K.C. Jones) IBM is working with researchers, cancer institutes and hospitals to fight cancer. The company is partnering with the National Cancer Institute on a grid project for managing biomedical research data. IBM announced Tuesday that it is also working with several hospitals and a research

(Dwaine R. Snow) Over the past couple years there has been a great deal of hype and interest in the concept of the data warehouse appliance. Much of this hype has been about the advantages the appliance is supposed to bring to organizations trying to balance the demands for ever increasing data alon

(Forrest Xia) IBM DB2 is a comprehensive RDBMS product, which IBM Rational ClearQuest fully supports. This article provides a step-by-step configuration guide to give you a clear picture regarding how to configure DB2 as your ClearQuest back-end RDBMS.

Ubuntu has successfully gone through the stringent process whereby IBM ensures that DB2 Universal Database for Linux operates in the Ubuntu environment. By working closely together, IBM and Ubuntu have shown that DB2 UDB and Ubuntu deliver a stable environment in which to run business applications u

Contains links to all of the operating system specific download pages for IBM DB2 Content Manager for Multiplatforms V8.2 Fix Pack 10.

(Chris Eaton) I think one of the biggest differences you will find between the two platforms (LUW and z/OS) is the way storage allocation work. Why? Because one of the biggest differences between the two platforms is the underlying storage subsystem. If you ask a system administration on Linux or UN

(Leon Katsnelson) In my job I get to talk to a lot of database developers. Many of these folks have significant experience building applications that use Oracle databases. I always ask “what tools do you use?” For the longest time I was expecting to hear Oracle Forms or JDeveloper as the answer to m

(James Kochuba) WebSphere Extended Deployment (XD) provides autonomic capabilities — dynamic clusters and health monitoring — enabling WebSphere systems to adapt to changes in workload and health of the servers. However, the information about the actions it recommends and that it performs are tran

(Keith Mullins) DB2 application rebinding is a maintenance issue that forces DB2 shops to make a difficult decision: when do you rebind? Many shops choose to either perform mass rebinds after reorganizations or avoid rebinding altogether. In both cases, these “all or nothing” approaches have liabili