(Bill Zhu) The employee workplace series highlights how employees can collaborate to create, review and publish research reports that are accessible to everyone in the company. Part 5 and Part 6 of the series describe how to use portlets and DB2 Content Manager to create an authoring process and

(Justin Whitney) Are you one of those who doesn’t associate DB2 with Windows? Then you’re in for a pleasant surprise. Version 8.2 of IBM’s DB2 Universal Database boasts a plethora of new features that fully integrate it into your Windows environment. Let’s take a look at some highlights.

(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 first part of a three part series that examines in depth the new function, features,

(Howard Goldberg) Wouldn’t it be great if you could search your enterprise data the same way you search the Internet? Most of us use Internet search tools daily to look up movie times, search for business addresses, shop, or just surf. Billions of pages of unstructured data make up the Internet. Yet

(Dick McCarrick) In many corporations, a business software platform is only as useful as the applications you can develop with it. With that in mind, IBM has announced IBM Workplace Designer 2.5, a standards-based development tool that allows developers to quickly and easily create components for re

(Coreen Bailor) Siebel Systems and IBM have unveiled the Siebel 7.8 Web UI Dynamic Developer Kit, which leverages the IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere Portal. The announcement is part of the companies’ joint strategy to deliver SOA-based apps. Siebel says about the release that dev

(Ray Else) ASP.NET is Microsoft’s powerful new Web middleware platform that supports both VB.NET and C#.NET languages. This article shows how you can use ASP.NET to access your UniData or UniVerse database in a simple, elegant way using IBM’s RedBack middleware.

(Edward Hurley) IBM plugged a security flaw in IBM’s DB2 Universal Database this week. (R)

(Roger Smith) The age of industrial-strength open-source databases has arrived. No longer collaborative science experiments, open-source database projects are growing up and going mainstream. In a recent survey, Evans Data Corp. found that two-thirds of database developers were currently using open-

(Paul Rogers and David Carey) This IBM Redbook provides some guidelines to assist with the collection of relevant diagnostic data to be used for problem diagnosis and resolution. This is not a definitive list of techniques, and while it covers many of the products that we deal with on a regular