(Guy Lohman) You’ve probably heard how IBM is endeavoring to make the DB2 family – and in fact all IBM products – more autonomic, or self-managing. The key aspects of self-managing systems can be easily remembered with the handy acronym “self-CHOP”: self-Configuring, self-Healing, self-Optimizing, a

(Alex Woodie) New identity management and financial applications unveiled recently by Oracle will work with the iSeries, DB2/400, and J.D. Edwards software, the software giant confirmed last week. World and EnterpriseOne shops will be able to utilize Oracle’s Identity Management and Financial Co

As security breaches and the demands of privacy legislation continue to increase, organizations are starting to encrypt critical data inside corporate databases. Historically, however, data encryption has posed many complexities. (R,pdf)

(Robert Westervelt) SAP is rolling out more than 200 composite applications that the software maker said will drive embedded analytics into its core applications and place user friendly analytical tools in the hands of end users. (R)

(Alex Woodie) Companies can now run the database portion of Now Solutions human resources and payroll software on IBM DB2, including DB2/400, the company announced last week. Now Solutions’ emPath software provides an array of capabilities for tracking employee hours and benefits, and now supports a

(Bernard Chester) Email, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, and accounting packages are essential tools for many businesses. These applications accumulate vast amounts of important information; however, the sheer volume of all that information can eventually degrade application performance

(Juliana Hughes) FSG (Federated Systems Group, Inc.) is a subsidiary of Federated Department Stores, Inc. FSG processes data for both Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s. On February 28, 2005 an announcement was made concerning the merger of Federated and May Company that will be accomplished in the third qu

(William Favero) DB2 for OS/390 had the potential for storage issues in the DBM1 address when an excessive number of very long running threads were active concurrently. The longer these thread remained active, the more storage they could use. Adding dynamic SQL processing, binding applications with

(Lee Kroon) On June 2, Lawson Software and Intentia International agreed to merge their two firms and, in the process, become one of the largest providers of business solutions to users of IBM servers. The merger will give the two vendors increased scale and viability in the rapidly consolidatin

(Sam Poon, Manu Sud and Raul Chong) Learn how DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) handles character conversion. This article starts with a discussion of basic character code concepts including code pages, code points, and encoding schemes, followed by a more detailed explanation about how code page