(David Buelke and Stuart Litel) DB2’s autonomic functions and features, particularly those that help utilities automatically understand when it’s time to reorganize, check, or move data, are now part of many shops’ daily operations.

(Manek Dubash) IBM is adding to its recently introduced eServer X3 architecture-based servers with the new xSeries 460. Designed for highly scalable, always-on environments, the x460 entry configuration starts with a four-way server and scales up to 32-way processing.

(Paul C. Zikopoulos) Did you know that the IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) product has arguably the best support for .NET in today’s database industry? In this series of articles, I want to take you through some of the tooling productivity benefits that a DB2 UDB developer can leverage when pro

(Phil Gunning, Martin Hubel, and Phil Nelson) DB2 V8.2, formerly known as “Stinger,” has been available since August 2004. Normally, white papers discuss upcoming features and products to allow users to plan for the new features. Instead, this paper gives the experiences of three users with the prod

(Hernando Bedoya, Daniel Lema, Vijay Marwaha, David F Squires and Mark Walas) Dive into the details of DB2 Universal Database for iSeries advanced functions and database administration. This IBM Redbook aims to equip programmers, analysts, and database administrators with all the skills and tool

This article provides information about how WebSphere Application Server uses classloaders to load various system and runtime resources. To make sure your application code runs correctly and with the appropriate characteristics, follow the information below.

(Suresh Thalamati) Ensure the recoverability of your IBM Cloudscape data. Learn how the backup, restore, and rollforward recovery features work in Cloudscape and Apache Derby. Through examples, find out how to restore your databases.

Content Manager is a data management system (content management system) that provides a foundation for managing, accessing, and integrating critical business information on demand. Content Manager is able to integrate all forms of data — document, Web, image, rich media — across diverse business

(Justin Whitney) IBM’s DB2 Universal Database gives developers fabulous new superpowers for building high performance database functionality. If you’ve used other databases, then you’re probably familiar with the basic SQL stored procedure, which can add power and performance to your app. DB2 goes e

Roger E. Sanders) Q: I have a situation in which application appl_1 updates table X (in a DB2 UDB for Linux, Unix, and Windows v.8.1 database) with commit count set to 100k, and application appl_2 updates the same table using the same commit count value. The applications run in parallel, and each up