(Peter Galli) In contrast to its reputation for being difficult and sometimes expensive to implement, some large enterprises are beginning to see significant cost savings and performance benefits as a result of migrating to Linux.

(Joe DeCarlo, Eric Chabert, Sylvie Delahaye, Sergei Litvak and Gary Racine) This IBM Redbook introduces the IBM Problem Determination and Deployment Tools for z/OS and OS/390. (pdf)

(Raul F. Chong, Clara Liu, Sylvia F. Qi and Dwaine R. Snow) Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when your application connects to the database server? What processes handle the requests? What process actually does the work and returns the results to you? When you examine your syste

(James F. Koopmann) There has been a lot of buzz around autonomics. Here what a few key individuals had to say at IDUG.

While using the Microsoft ODBC Driver for DB2 through Microsoft Access to query a host database, you may receive the following error: DIAG [22005] [Microsoft][ODBC DB2 Driver] Invalid character value for cast specification.

(Lou Agosta) As the number of data warehouses at least one terabyte in size has grown from 21 percent in 2002 to 43 percent of enterprises in 2004, many have asked Forrester: Is it feasible to back up the database? Complaints have included: 1) the backup won’t fit in our batch window, 2) we don’

(Farnaz Erfan) Learn how IBM WebSphere Information Integrator’s automatic health monitoring capabilities can help you meet the challenges of maintaining semantic consistency in the federated database environment. This article introduces federated concepts and then describes how the health monitoring

(Jack Stellrecht) That noble goal of software engineering, software reuse, proves elusive when it comes to legacy business systems. To achieve this modern characteristic, legacy systems typically require redesign and reimplementation. But that need not be the case.

(James F. Koopmann) Breaking through the Holy War OK, IDUG has come and gone but I am still spending this week going over some of the session I visited. Next week we will look at a book I have been reading on Database Security.

(Thomas M. Stockwell) On May 24, IBM introduced new software technology designed to give organizations the ability to share and compare information without revealing the private personal details of the individuals represented.