(Lisa Vaas) It’s a food-processing company. Like lots of companies in these days of consolidation, it worried about melding two merged companies’ collections of databases, legacy applications and data sets.

(Paul C. Zikopoulos) In late April 2005, IBM released an update, called Version 8.2.2, of the IBM DB2 Universal Database product (DB2 UDB). This update was inspired by functional enhancements for SAP environments, but the reality is that everyone can benefit from the works that has gone into this up

The Microsoft ODBC Driver for DB2 Configuration dialog box does not allow a blank Local APPC LU alias to be specified when you are creating a data source name (DSN).

(Peter Galli) Long relegated to menial file and print server duties in most enterprises, Linux is now playing a mission-critical role in financial trading and other highly sensitive networks on Wall Street. The traction in the financial sector is part of broader Linux adoption growth, which is expec

(Alorie Gilbert) IBM and software partner Lawson Software buttressed their alliance with an agreement to jointly sell business systems to midsize companies.

(Joe DeCarlo, Reginaldo Barosa, Jim Eberwein, Michael Virga and Henk van der Wijk) Faced with enormous pressures to do more with less, companies need a more productive, enterprise-level, integrated development tool. IBM WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer Version 5.1.2 is the solution to this prob

(Charles Garry) With DBA shortages, increasing data volumes, and cost-cutting pressures affecting virtually every business, something’s got to give. Autonomic features are changing the technology in response-and giving DBAs a chance to reshape their roles.

(Aleksandr Nartovich, Sougat Ghosh, Richard Johnson, Kwang Sik Kang, Kimberly D Price, Gaetano Rinciari and Marcelino Villanueva) Mid-Market companies are looking for complete solutions from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) who know their businesses and specialize in a particular solution categor

(Rita-Lyn Sanders) IBM is working on a deal that would put TV dinners to shame, it could make Web developers’ lives so much easier. Big Blue wants to distribute Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), a Web development scripting language, with all of its eServer platforms by the end of the year. It just has t

(Roman Melnyk) The IBM DB2 Universal Database SQL administrative routines represent an easy-to-use application programming interface (API) to DB2 administrative functions through SQL. Working examples show you how to use some of these routines, which can be invoked from a DB2 command line, a command