(Cheryl D. Ross) Since Rochester served up its big iSeries i5 announcement in spring 2004, it has dished out follow-up announcements somewhat sparingly, offering new hardware packaging here, a virtualization improvement there — but no big meaty hardware or software upgrade. That’s because IBM figure

(Joe Pluta) This is a packed article. First, I’m going to address debugging in WDSc, with the idea of making you the windshield. This topic is coming to you by popular demand; a number of you wrote in after my last column and asked me to address debugging, and since I write for you, your wish is my

(Anjali Betawadkar-Norwood, Eileen Lin and Ioana Ursu) Data federation gives you a way to integrate the diverse data in your enterprise. This second article in a 2-part series discusses federated query optimization, demonstrates usage examples, and discusses performance tuning considerations for

In a federated system you occasionally need to specify values that are case-sensitive at the data source, such as user IDs and passwords. To ensure that the case is correct when these values are passed to the data source, follow these guidelines: –Specify the values in the required case and enc

(Charles Babcock) What does a billion dollars buy these days? Maybe better data integration, especially for stake-your-career moments like a post-merger data meld.

To thrive in today’s on demand world, you need to get information into the hands of the right people – easily and cost effectively. Join us at the IBM Content Management technical conference and learn how to simplify content management, streamline compliance and deliver information with on demand ea

(Kulvir Bhogal) The efforts of JSR114 bring you the offering of serializable disconnected objects in Java 1.5. With these objects, you can connect to a database and grab data locally. You can then release your database connection and manipulate the data offline. At a later time, you can reconnec

(Andi Gutmans and Grant Hutchison) PHP (a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is one of the most widely deployed pieces of open source software, along with the Apache Web Server and Linux. According to NetCraft, PHP is now the most popular Web development language, having surpassed Mi

(Ed Scannell) With the delivery in 2006 of the next version of DB2, code-named Viper, IBM’s quest for a database that hooks up structured and unstructured data and that supports queries by SQL and Xquery might reach its end. At least that is the belief of Janet Perna, general manager of IBM Soft

(Paul Zikopoulos) Learn the details of how IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) V8.2.2, more than ever, decreases your time-to-value through a self-installing, self-tuning, and self-configuring database. This is the second part of a three part series that examines in depth the new function, feat