(Leon Katsnelson and Paul C Zikopoulos) IBM DB2 Connect has become the choice method for opening up DB2 for z/OS databases and all of the traditional recognized benefits of the zSeries hardware platform to the world of applications that run off the mainframe — namely, distributed applications. This

(Roger Miller) Many customers are asking the question, “When should I migrate to DB2 UDB for z/OS, Version 8?” I’ll identify situations where Version 8 (V8) is a great fit—or one of the greatest hits. After that I’ll dispel some myths.

(Michael Klaene) The selections for Developer.com’s Product of the Year 2005 have been made. Voters cast ballots for their favorite DBMS or Related Technology product and a winner has been selected.

(C. M. Saracco) New plug-ins shipped with IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD) Version 6 help Java programmers speed up development of Web applications that embed reports containing critical corporate data. In this article, learn how to combine RAD’s new code generation facilities with WebSphere

(Kanchana Padmanabhan) Some Informix data types cannot be loaded into .NET built-in types without losing precision, functionality, or both. Discover how to avoid compromising your data types, and find out how to use the following Informix data types included in the IBM Informix .NET provider: IfxBlo

(Mark W. Johnson) During their widespread introduction in the 1960s and 1970s, computer systems had a dramatic impact on many businesses. The deployment of personal computers in the 1980s had a similar impact, providing benefits to small organizations that had benefited only indirectly from the earl

This tutorial provides a guided tour through the WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition. It starts with an overview of the product that will focus on its main features. The intent is to give you enough information to understand the subsequent steps. Then, it describes the installation and

(Robert Catterall) When I first started working with DB2 version 1.2 for mainframe servers back in the late 1980s, DB2 did a great job of storing and managing data, but couldn’t serve it up without help from a program running in an address space external to DB2, such as a CICS or IMS transaction or

(Clara Liu, Samuel Poon and Cindy Wong) This study pack is designed to help you to complete IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) v8.1 database administration certification. It contains the study materials and exercises to prepare you to pass both DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Fundamentals exam (Test 700)

(B.L.“Tink” Tysor) One of the first things I became aware of when I started my programming career was how often time (or chronological) data was used in calculations. I became convinced that more design time was spent deciding the definition of dates and times (chronological data) than any other sin