(Richard Gornitsky and Rob Will) WebSphere Portal, the leading enterprise portal package on the market, is about to ship a major new release designed to take integration and flexibility deeper and further than ever before. WebSphere Portal lets programmers focus on developing the business functi

(Frank Kyne and Glenn McGeoch) Maintaining high availability in a Parallel Sysplex requires planning and effort on the part of many individuals in multiple disciplines. DB2 is just one component of a highly available environment. This Redpaper provides additional information to the Parallel Sysp

(Darryl K. Taft) In a continuing effort to expand its developer base, IBM is tapping venture capital firms to find hot new companies in emerging technology areas to support IBM’s middleware platform.

(Michael Sansoterra) In multi-application, mixed-platform environments, it’s often necessary to have a job run on platform A to collect data for a job to be run on platform B. Since these diverse platforms often do not know how to “speak” to each other, one common solution has been to put the jobs o

IBM announces new and enhanced tools designed to provide functions that improve DB2 recovery by offering increased compression of archived logs, and easier identification and restoration of logs. Service stream enhancements to the DB2 object management tools continue to make database management task

(Brian Fonseca) In an effort to give customers more focused control over internal and non-IBM external enterprise data stores, IBM is planning to add native XML support to its relational DB2 Universal Database wrapped around new indexing capabilities.

(Andrew Binstock) The SQL Server database appeared seemingly out of nowhere in the early 1990s as Microsoft’s entrée into the market for larger-than-Access databases. The original product was mostly licensed from Sybase, but over the course of years, Microsoft took over all of the design and impleme

Do you want to learn more about comprehensive DB2 Performance Monitoring? Would you like to explore what factors influence DB2 Applications, Database and Systems Performance? Would you like to learn how DB2 Performance Expert for z/OS can help you deploy a DB2 monitoring strategy that is proactive i

This paper describes the benchmark results of DB2 Universal Database DataPropagator Version 8.1 and how you can optimize the performance of data replication. (R,pdf)

(Susan Lawson) DB2 operates as a formal subsystem of z/OS. DB2 utilities run in the batch environment, and applications that access DB2 resources can run in the batch, TSO (Time Sharing Option), USS (UNIX System Services), IMS (Information Management System), or CICS (Customer Information Control S