(Grant Hutchison and Stewart Nickolas) Have you considered setting up a PHP 5 on your Linux server, but not had the time to learn how? This article will help guide you through the installation of a PHP 5 environment using the industry’s first integrated PHP environment that includes the IBM Cloudsca

(James F. Koopmann) When I was a DB2 DBA quite a while ago our team of DBAs split responsibilities across application areas. We soon became experts in understanding the data model, the access paths chosen by DB2, and how long every statement would take to execute under normal conditions. When ch

(Chris Eaton) Now on to the second half of the database manager configuration parameters that I suspect you won’t touch. The good news is that with each release of DB2 there are more configuration parameters that become automatic so that you don’t need to touch them. Here are more database manag

(Thomas Hampp and Alexander Lang) Been searching for that customer phone number over and over again in your emails, but queries like “phone number” did not work? If so, semantic search would have made your life easier. Semantic search is a new search paradigm that overcomes the limitations of standa

(Philip Howard) With the announcement of the retirement of Janet Perna as the head of IBM’s Information Management Group, who is being replaced by Ambuj Goyal, it is appropriate to consider the strength of the group that he inherits and, in particular, the position of DB2 today and its prospects goi

(Joe Pluta) A long time ago, in a faraway land, lived a wondrous machine capable of performing magical acts with numbers and facts. His computational legerdemain was legendary; his programming prowess renowned. But even though working folk throughout the land–from blacksmiths to barkeeps–used his

(Alan Yaung and Allan Tham) This second article in a series of three articles will introduce you to IBM DB2 Content Manager document routing and provide a claim process case study to show examples of implementation and usage of APIs.

(Colleen Frye) IBM gave another nod to the PHP open source, server-side scripting language with last month’s announcement of Zend Core for IBM, developed jointly with Zend Technology Inc., Cupertino, Calif. (R)

(James F. Koopmann) When I moved from administering DB2 environments to Oracle I really missed the stability that DB2 binds gave to an application. Unlike Oracle that can constantly change access paths at runtime you always knew the access paths DB2 would take because they were bound to an applicati

(Leon Gong, Mike Olivas, Christine Posluszny, Donna Venditti and George McMillan) Data integration is the key concept in data warehousing. The design and implementation of an ETL (data Extraction, Transformation, and Loading) process is a very important part of a data warehousing solution. ETL proce