(Barbara Darrow) IBM formally unveiled a version of its DB2 database that’s optimized to run SAP applications.

(Rick Long, Robert Hain, Mark Harrington, Dean Meltz and Geoff Nicholls) There are two major ways to access IBM’s Information Management Systems. You can write application programs that tell IMS what to do, or you can use existing application programs that tell IMS what to do. This chapter explains

(Bob Rumsby) This article describes a method for easily performing federated queries against Red Brick and DB2 DataJoiner tables.

(Kent Milligan) What is the difference between Access path and Open data path? (R)

(Richard Murch) In this chapter, we shall review some examples of autonomic products and their applications. This will illustrate the benefits and advantages of autonomic computing, which is in use today, not just in commercial enterprises, but in other industries, such as space exploration, where a

(Aleksandr Nartovich, Wilfried Blankerz, Maggie Biggs Mohamed Esmat, Estela McCarty and Jerry Sigwing) In the world of eBusiness on Demand, developers need new tools and new development strategies for creating the modern applications required by their companies. Large green screen applications need

(Philip K. Gunning) Monitoring database performance is critical for companies to succeed in today’s demanding 24 x 7 On-Demand economy. There is little or no allowance for business slowdowns or outages due to poor performing or unavailable DB2 UDB databases. The number of experienced DBAs available

(Raul Chong, Clara Liu, Sylvia Qi and Dwaine Snow) DATABASE 2 (DB2) Universal Database (UDB) for Linux, UNIX, and Windows is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by IBM. Version 8.2, available since September 2004, is the most current version of the product, and the one discusse

(Jack Vaughan) WebSphere has been a remarkable market success story for IBM. Not too long ago, Big Blue was being urged to break up into separate companies. Although it spun off some of its properties, IBM remained as one entity, and began working to connect the vast number of its offerings. WebSphe

Are you involved in the design and implementation of data access code for .NET applications? Have you felt like you are writing the same data access code over and over again? Or perhaps you are new to .NET and you want easy but yet secure and efficient data access code to access DB2; if so, then the