(Timothy Prickett Morgan) The iSeries is best known for running RPG and COBOL applications. It can also run Java applications (and do so as well as any other platform) and myriad kinds of middleware to display those RPG, COBOL, and Java applications on various screens and interfaces. But the iSeries

(Paul C Zikopoulos) One of the most frustrating tasks that database administrators (DBAs) have to perform is trying to figure out when one database application’s request is blocking another. Sure, most databases have built-in deadlock detectors and timeouts to help these sorts of issues work themsel

Basel II initiatives are at the top of all Financial Services’ Providers list. Download this white paper to learn how IBM’s Banking Data Warehouse can help accelerate Basel II initiatives at your company and deliver ROI quickly and consistently. (R)

(Peter Kovari) This IBM Redpaper is an overview of IT security for WebSphere products. Its purpose is to provide basic information about IT security and specific details about WebSphere security. This can be used as a standalone paper with information for basic security, or considered the introducti

(Sandor Szabo) IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 10.0 provides transparent optimization and exploitation of Linux environments, using asynchronous, direct, and vectored I/O for performance and processor affinity to achieve improved scalability and parallelism. The performance and reliability of

(Barbara Darrow) IBM is integrating analytics technology that it acquired last summer into its data warehousing lineup.

(Kulvir Singh Bhogal) The WebRowSet interface is a product of JSR-114, the efforts of which brought us the offering of the JDBC Rowset in Java 1.5. RowSet objects allow for disconnected interaction with a backend database. This article sheds light on the WebRowSet, which extends from the javax.s

(Michael Hoy & Grant Hutchison) Perl is a powerful and easy-to-use programming language available for many operating systems. And it’s free. You can download the language (as source code or binary form) and use it without paying a license fee.

(Raul Chong, Clara Liu, Sylvia Qi and Dwaine Snow)This chapter provides an overview of the DB2 core concepts using a “big picture” approach. It introduces SQL statements and their classification in Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Manipulation Language (DML), and Data Control Language (DCL).

(Harish Chauhan) In this document, I have tried to explain each and every step that is required in setting up a Highly Available DB2 cluster. A cluster has lot of components like shared disks, SAN switch, nodes, software, connectivity, etc. I have written this document keeping in mind a novice so af