IBM has sought to dispel the rumor that there is far more hype about service oriented architecture than there are customers actually getting value from it, by highlighting the news from financial services company Standard Life Group that it has successfully implemented SOA.

(Craig Fellenstein and Joshy Joseph) Whether in academia, business, industry, or personal life, people solve problems better when they work together. But, despite rapid advances in processing speed, storage devices, and network bandwidth, enabling dynamic collaboration through technology can be extr

(Hernando Bedoya, Birgitta Hauser has, Rolf AndrŽ Klaedtke, Sharon Hoffman and Warawich Sundarabhaka) In 1978 IBM introduced the System/38 as part of its midrange platform hardware base. One of the many outstanding features of this system was the built-in Relational Database Management System (R

(Kevin Forsythe) In V4R4, IBM added an SQL scripting tool to the standard features included within iSeries Navigator and has continued enhancing it in subsequent releases. Because standard features of iSeries Navigator are available to customers at no charge, this new feature marks a new era in SQL

(Renee Boucher Ferguson) The stack wars involving Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp. and IBM are heating up as each develops new products to unify applications and provide a more comprehensive software infrastructure.

(Paul Rogers, Patrick Bruinsma, Olivier Daurces, Robert Kohler, Meganen Naidoo, Miha Petric and Natabar Sahoo) In this IBM Redbook, we highlight many enhancements made in z/OS Version 1 Release 6, and provide information in this document to help you install, tailor, and configure this release.

(Tamas Vilaghy, Bob Cronin, Hidenori Fujioka, Mitch Johnson, Wilbert Kho, Rajesh P Ramachandran, Allen Schmutzler and Claus Schroeder-Hansen) This IBM Redbook helps you install, tailor, and configure adapters and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Connector Architecture (J2CA)-compliant

(Kim Moutsos) In a little more than a year, IBM’s information integration technologies brought in 250 new customers, 1,500 new licenses, and more than 100 new partners. IBM’s Nelson Mattos explains why customers are turning to IBM’s portfolio to support Web site searches, grid initiatives, and even

(Ron Turull) Outfiles are status quo on the iSeries, but did you know that SQL can produce them intrinsically? To have the results of a Select statement written to a database file (i.e., an outfile), specify the Select statement as part of an Insert statement. (R)

IBM today set a new standard for Linux database performance with the announcement of a record-shattering 1 Terabyte (TB) TPC-H benchmark using the IBM DB2 Integrated Cluster Environment (DB2 ICE). This is the first time that a large data cluster delivered record-breaking performance at a price point