Sebnem Jaji, Jane Estrada, Dilip Kikla, John Halbert, Bill Panagakos, Viktor Lioutyi, Lucas Tandang, Andy Marchewka and Sergei Yankovskiy) Benchmark tests had proven the performance of Transportation Manager in 4 and 8 CPU system environments. The previous most recent benchmark was conducted i

(Lester Knutsen) The first quarter of this year featured several new Informix developments. The big news, of course, is IBM’s release of Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) version 10 at the end of February. Around the same time, IBM partner Advanced Global Systems introduced a new version of Server Studi

(Andrew Friedrich) Sharing information about identities (e.g., individuals, employees or customers) is an effective tool for discovering knowledge and increasing the effectiveness and economy of public and private programs and initiatives. Responsible managed, information sharing can help: • Re

(Kent Milligan) Is there a way to create a SQL view where fields are dynamically obtained each time the View is used. I am trying to do an analogy with the Logical Files ability to handle not mapped fields, and each time the Physical File is modified, the Logical one reflects the change without any

(Paul C. Zikopoulos) In Part 1 of this series, I covered the IBM Explorer and its unique features that help .NETTM application developers write applications for the IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) product family. In Part 2, I introduced you to a set of schema creation wizards that let you point

IBM Information Integration announces Project Serrano-Hawk which will join WebSphere Information Integrator (IBM Project Serrano) and WebSphere Enterprise Data Integration Suite (IBM Project Hawk). Together, they will deliver the right information, in the form you want, whenever you need it, while i

(Chris Eaton) In my last posting I discussed the nice side benefit of the new automatic storage in DB2 8.2.2 which allows for DMS tablespaces (even those created prior to 8.2.2) to grow automatically when they fill up. Thus giving DMS like performance with the manageability of SMS tablespaces. So wh

(Liam Finnie) Prior to IBM DB2 Universal Database, Version 8.2.2 (Version 8, FixPack 9), DB2 UDB on UNIX platforms, with the Data Partitioning Feature (DPF) enabled, implicitly relied on rsh as the remote shell mechanism when executing commands on remote DB2 nodes. This restriction has been rela

In Microsoft Host Integration Server 2004, when you use the Managed Provider for DB2 to perform parameterized queries against an IBM DB2 database, you may intermittently receive error messages that are similar to the following: Source: Microsoft.HostIntegration.MsDb2Client Message: Null value

(Robert Peterson and Kulvir Bhogal) The Java Data Objects (JDO) specification introduced by the Java Community Process (JCP) is a framework which persists plain Java objects to a data store such as an RDBMS. Java Persistent Objects (JPOX) is a JDO 1.0 (JSR 012) and JDO 2.0 (JSR 243) compliant implem