(Willie Favero) I know, you’ve been holding your breath wondering when I was going to get around to a discussion on DSNZPARM. Well, the wait is over. In today’s entry, I will take a look at a few DSNZPARM changes that I believe have the potential of affecting you after you complete your Version 8 mi

(Susan Cline) ODBC is available for the Cloudscape 10.x and Derby databases as an IBM DB2 Run-Time Client. The use of Derby, Version 10.1 and 10.0, with ODBC is a supported platform for Windows and available as a beta for Linux. This article discusses platforms, system requirements, and where to dow

(Kathleen Ohlson) IBM introduced business intelligence software aimed to allow AIX users to archive, integrate and analyze vast amounts of historical data.

(Susan Cline) The latest release of IBM Cloudscape, Version 10.1, a commercial release of Apache Derby, is now available for download. This article explains a few differences for this version of the release. Additionally, it helps you to select the proper installer version of IBM Cloudscape to downl

(Chris Eaton) Before diving into the database configuration parameters I wanted to take a look at a recent benchmark result that I think is something significant that folks may want to take a look at. On August 8, IBM delivered a new TPC-C result on a platform that hasn’t yet appeared in TPC-C. pSer

(Janet Perna and Andrew Warzecha) Businesses are facing a formidable challenge: the pressure to grow revenue, contain costs, respond more quickly to changes, and increase efficiency. These big goals demand that people and processes have access to the right information at the right time to take t

(Lance Bader) Cloudscape is a relational database manager implemented in Java. Tomcat is the reference servlet container implemented in Java. This article is a cookbook, providing step-by-step recipes for integrating them in three common scenarios: the prototype integration, the casual integration,

Princeton Softech, the market leader in application database archiving, today announced the general availability of Archive for DB2 and Relational Tools Release 5.4, enabling companies to implement Information Governance strategies, improve performance and mitigate business risks.

(Chris Eaton) I’ve posted two sets of config parms that you shouldn’t have to touch. Now let me go into the ones that you should care about and/or ones that you will probably touch at one point or another.

Unstructured information management (UIM) applications are software systems that analyze unstructured information (text, audio, video, images, and so on) to discover, organize, and deliver relevant knowledge to the user. In analyzing unstructured information, UIM applications make use of a variety o