(Lee Kroon) When Oracle Corporation hosted its OpenWorld user conference two weeks ago, it made a significant effort to reassure JD Edwards customers that their new vendor has their best interests at heart. Besides signing a landmark middleware agreement with IBM, Oracle deepened its commitment to e

(Kim Moutsos) During her time as a mechanical engineering major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Kate Tomchik envied the relatively easy life enjoyed by her computer science-studying roommates. But Tomchik was not looking to dodge any challenges. After all, the Georgia native chose the Troy, NY-

(Chris Eaton) Here is another log related monitor script. In this case we are looking for the oldest transaction that is holding log space. The amount of active log space used is determined by the oldest uncommitted transaction. For example, if a transaction is uncommitted and it’s log records a

(Sue Schmidt and Marilyn Dukart) IBM WebSphere Application Server Express for iSeries (WAS Express) is a tightly integrated development tool and application server. As an alternative to the full-blown WebSphere Application Server (WAS), it provides an easily affordable, single-machine entry point fo

(Justin Whitney) So you’re developing a PHP app using DB2. You’ve downloaded the version of the ibm_db2 PECL extension appropriate for your version of PHP. Now what?

(Willie Favero) I want to wrap up my discussions covering the planning portion of moving to DB2 for z/OS Version 8. However, before getting into that, I first would like to summarize what we have chatted about so far. In a few earlier post I discussed reference materials that can be of use during yo

When it comes to Development, DB2 is open to all options. IBM’s commitment to open, standards-based interfaces and its support for a range of tools mean that developers can build DB2 applications with the tools and programming languages they like. (R)

(Tom Jacopi) IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Version 8.2 introduced Q replication and event publishing for DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) tables by extending the replication support of WebSphere Information Integrator. Both Q replication and event publishing consist of the QCapture compon

Ensure that you are running one of the following versions with a 32-bit kernel: Solaris(TM) Version 7 Solaris Version 8 Kernel architectures sun4d and sun4m are not supported.

(Stanley Bradbury) Application Servers (also called App Servers) are gaining popularity as a way to provide information and services to people at different locations without regard to the type of computer they are using. Typically the App Server sits between a database or other information store (ca