(Rakesh Agrawal, Amit Somani and Yirong Xu) New generation of e-commerce applications require data schemas that are constantly evolving and sparsely populated. The conventional horizontal row representation fails to meet these requirements. We represent objects in a vertical format storing an objec

(Ed Scannell) Hoping to add some muscle to its application integration strategies, IBM rolled out a new version of its WebSphere MQ product with 150 technical improvements, including improved support for creating an ESB, which can serve as a backbone to a SOA.

(Zamil Janmohamed, Clara Liu, Drew Bradstock, Raul Chong, Michael Gao, Fraser McArthur, and Paul Yip) Stored procedures are used to encapsulate multiple SQL statements with flow logic. They are database objects that serve as sub-routines to applications. SQL procedures are defined in a database

(Linda L. Briggs) Healthcare provider Beverly Enterprises faced an interesting challenge when it decided to streamline its processes and create user-friendly interfaces to 20-year-old legacy mainframe data.

(Cheryl D. Ross) IBM announced a number of incremental enhancements for the iSeries, topped by a simplified Logical Partitioning (LPAR) solution for smaller i5 shops that want to avoid the hassle of having to use the Hardware Management Console (HMC). Other enhancements tackle SQL, security, and I/O

The objective of this tutorial is to get you confident with the problem of handling multiple mining tasks at the same time in your J2EE Web application. The tutorial also demonstrates how to use the Easy Mining Procedures interface of Intelligent Miner Modeling to handle these mining tasks. (R)

(Craig S. Mullins) If you are a regular user of any type of software you know what I mean by an “annoyance.” Annoyances are those little things software does to drive intelligent people crazy. There isn’t a piece of commercial software out there that is not plagued with annoyances and DB2 has its fa

(Juan Rodriguez, Anna Gangitano, Gianfranco Rutigliano and Guillermo Villavicencio) This IBM Redbook is part of a series of four volumes related to WebSphere Everyplace Access Version 5.0. These books will help you plan, install, administer, and develop mobile applications to run in a WebSphere Ever

(David Beulke) Regulatory requirements such as the United States’ Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 are causing extensive changes within corporations. Some of the changes alter database system fundamentals; all of them require data management

(Nagraj Alur, YunJung Chang, Barry Devlin, Bill Mathews, John Matthews, Sreeram Potukuchi, Uday Sai Kumar and Raj Datta) This IBM Redbook documents and prototypes the role of DB2 Information Integrator technologies and architecture in IBM’s Patterns for e-business using a typical customer insight e-