(Robert Catterall) Does this scenario sound familiar? You’re a DB2 DBA with years of experience managing operational database systems. You’re in a meeting in which some business intelligence (BI) experts – your colleagues or consultants – are discussing various aspects of a new DB2-based decision-su

(Kulvir Bhogal and Grant Hutchinson) Need a jump start on using DB2 with JDBC technology? Database programming with JDBC lets Java programmers interact programmatically with database systems. Kulvir Bhogal and Grant Hutchison discuss the subject of programming with JDBC when the target database is t

(Frank Kyne, Paola Bari and Alan Murphy) This IBM Redbook gives you a broad understanding of the Resource Recovery Services (RRS) environment. RRS provides a global syncpoint manager that any resource manager on z/OS can exploit. It enables transactions to update protected resources managed by many

IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer starter set of CICS online queries is helpful for quick, relatively simple queries. However, virtually any possible query can be done by bringing to bear all the power of SQL on the DB2 database. Some customers have found that they already have DB2 information r

IBM is offering free technology for download that’s designed to help organizations reuse content. It works with the company’s DB2 Content Manager software, one of several content management products from IBM.

(Rufus Credle, Douglas Fallstrom, Nilesh Hiremath and Hideyuki Kamemoto) This Redbook will discuss a new tool that allows customers to more seamlessly migrate their applications from UNIX to Linux. This tool, called Portable Data Containers (PDCs), is part of VERITAS’ Storage Foundations 4.0 offer

(Robert Catterall) We are in the process of implementing the concepts in your column "Do You MQ" for our batch processing, but our Web transactions aren’t ready for this approach yet. As an interim solution, we’ve planned to use the DB2 Governor utility, which supposedly would let us assign higher p

(Paolo Bruni, Pierluigi Buratti, Florence Dubois, Judy Ruby-Brown, Christian Skalberg, Tsumugi Taira and Kyungsoon Um) DB2 for z/OS is the database of choice for critical data for many enterprises. It is becoming more and more important to protect this data in case of disaster and to be able to res

(Serge Rielau) This article introduces advanced SQL features which are being used in IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2 UDB for LUW) TPC-C benchmarks. Find out how to use these features in everyday customer environments.

(Roger E. Sanders) In two previous columns in this series, I explained the two kinds of tools that make up the Database System Monitor: a snapshot monitor and event monitors. The snapshot monitor captures information about the current state of an instance and/or database at a given point, while even