(Javid Jamae and Kulvir Singh Bhogal) Hibernate, an open source application, provides a way to easily persist your Java objects to DB2 Universal Database without writing a single line of SQL code. Our authors show you how.

(Viswanath Nandigam) We can learn how to implement a DB2 UDF by following an example where we need to do a BIT AND operation on two numbers. IBM DB2 does not support “AND” or “OR” operations. In these cases, we can use Java UDFs to overcome these shortcomings in DB2. (pdf)

If the TCP/IP DDM Server on the AS/400 is not started, the following data providers cannot connect over TCP/IP: • Microsoft OLE DB Provider for AS/400 • VSAMMicrosoft OLE DB Provider for DB2Microsoft ODBC Driver for DB2

(Jon Prial) At LinuxWorld in San Francisco, IBM announced that it was releasing Cloudscape, a fully relational Java database as open source to the Apache Software Foundation, which has established it as an incubator project under the name “Derby.” This is the latest in a long series of commitmen

This chapter describes how to operate the Capture and Apply programs generally. This chapter also describes regular database maintenance, monitoring replication, handling gaps, and modifying your replication configuration.

Business Intelligence (BI) is a popular and powerful concept of applying a set of technologies to turn data into meaningful information. With Business Intelligence Applications, large amounts of data originating in many different formats (spreadsheets, relational databases, web logs) can be consoli

(Jane Kohn) The primary focus of this article is on the DB2 Content Manager (DB2 CM) Portlet Version 2.0.1. The DB2 CM Portlet is a DB2 CM Web application that invokes the DB2 CM Java Web Component Toolkit (JWT) and DB2 CM Java Beans components to interface with a DB2 CM server. The portlet implemen

This tutorial shows you how to apply data mining techniques using IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner to generate automatically product recommendations for customers in a possible e-commerce shop environment. (R)

(Robert Westervelt) The latest version of IBM’s DB2 Universal Database received a security certification from the International Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation. (R)

(Edward Hurley) Security was a major consideration when IBM developed DB2 V8. Recently Edward Hurley, Search390.com’s editor, spoke with Curt Cotner, the chief architect of DB2 for zSeries, about the security enhancements in the new version including its tighter integration with RACF. An edited tran