(Whei-Jen Chen, Alice Ma, Andy Markovic, Rakesh Midha, Marcia Miskimen, Ken Siders, Kevin Taylor and Maria Weinerth) DB2 Performance Expert (PE) for Multiplatforms V2 is a workstation-based performance analysis and tuning tool for managing a heterogeneous mix of DB2 systems with a single end-user in

(Joe Pluta) In the past, I’ve often tried to explain the difference between data and information. It’s especially important these days as we see more and more tools designed to show data, usually in a browser. The difference is in how much business logic you can put into place: A person’s hire d

(Mike Cain and Rob Bestgen) With the availability of V5R3 i5/OS and DB2 UDB for iSeries, the SQL Query Engine now supports a powerful strategy for minimizing query input/output (I/O) and maximizing query performance. This new strategy appears as magic, given the Query Optimizer’s ability to rewrite

(Michael Vizard) One of the paradoxes of the industry is that while IBM is an ardent supporter of Linux as an open-source operating system, it has a more proprietary approach to the middleware given its history with Websphere and other products. But IBM argues that as open source continues to evolve

(Ed Scannell) As general manager of IBM’s application and integration middleware division, IBM veteran Robert LeBlanc has charge of the key technical pieces corporate users need to carry out enterprise-wide integration strategies and other complex strategies such as SOAs (service-oriented architectu

(Sermsak Sukjirawat) DB2 UDB Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition (DWEE), Version 8.1.2, is IBM’s complete business intelligence platform, bringing together DB2 UDB, DB2 UDB Database Partitioning Feature, DB2 Cube Views, DB2 Intelligent Miner Modeling, Scoring and Visualization, DB2 Office Connect, DB2

Frost and Sullivan presented IBM Software Group with the 2004 Market Leadership Award for its achievements in the global Identity and Access Management market. The award recognises IBM’s ability to establish itself as a market leader despite facing increasing pressure from high-profile competitors a

(Shawn Lauzon, Lavena Chan, Roger Cundiff, Christopher Mitchell and Leigh Williamson) IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 5 provides enhancements to scalability, reliability, Web services, J2EETM 1.3 certification, and many other areas. This chapter explores the various differences between Vers

(Craig Mullins) A row is treated as a variable length row when an ALTER TABLE has added a new column to the table. My understanding is that future INSERT’ed and UPDATE’ed rows have an indicator set in the row header marking these rows as variable length. Additionally there is an indication in th

(Wei-Dong Zhu, Javier Almaraz, Gordon Campbell, Hanaa Hammad, Nirva Morisseau-Leroy and Bud Paton) In this IBM Redbook, we deal with implementing Web applications using IBM DB2 Content Manager Information Integrator for Content Version 8 and IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand Web Enablement Kit. It is