(Leon Gong, Mike Olivas, Christine Posluszny, Donna Venditti and George McMillan) Business Intelligence has evolved to include more and more data analytic technologies. No matter which data analysis approach you take, the data warehouse remains a vital foundation for leveraging information assets. T

(Craig S. Mullins) Lately I’ve been getting a lot of questions from people looking to convert their VSAM data to DB2. So I thought I’d put together my thoughts on the topic for my IDUG Solutions Journal column so I can share them with everybody.

(Chris Eaton) If you’re new to DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and Windows or if you are an old pro, there are always new features that may have escaped your line of sight. Over the next few weeks I’ll highlight some of the newest features particularly around the area of storage management and how you

The success of the DB2 platform has steadily increased the number and size of DB2 databases and the applications that work with these databases. Selecting the right software tools can automate and streamline the process of data lifecycle management, resulting in dramatic savings in time and impressi

(Anja Nicolussi and Sandra Grontzki) Have you ever wondered what Data Mining is about and how you get started to integrate Data Mining intelligence in your business applications? Use this comprehensive self-learning guide to IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner V8.2 to swim around at the surface of Data Min

(N Geetha) Following a spate of acquisitions worldwide that enhance the technological capabilities of its DB2 database management software, IBM in India has aggressive plans to increase its market share.

(Joyce Coleman and Tony Lau) The WebSphere performance benchmark sample (known as Trade6) provides a suite of workloads for characterizing performance of the WebSphere Application Server. This tutorial describes how to install and set up a Trade6 sandbox with DB2 V8.2 and WebSphere Application Serve

(Michael L. Gonzales) Data provides no judgment or interpretation and, therefore, no basis for action. Context turns data into information. When the context is well understood, business intelligence (BI) enables the transformation from data to decision to become a routine process in a business.

(Paul Holm) A common requirement for business applications is to be able to manage documents from a Web application. Documents may include file types such as pictures, Excel files, Word files and video. (R)

(Robert Catterall) Do you know of any products that use DRDA without a local DB2 in an MVS (OS/390, Z/OS) environment? I’m looking for a way to isolate DB2 into its own LPAR to take advantage of IBM’s Workload License Charges (WLC) pricing. By running DB2 in one LPAR and having CICS and batch separa