(Alan Y. Lee, Ken DeLathouwer and Punit Shah) Database server performance depends heavily on the I/O subsystem performance. Starting with the Stinger release, DB2 Universal Database supports Direct I/O and Concurrent I/O on AIX, and Direct I/O on HP, Solaris, Linux, and Windows. The focus of this ar

(Rick Whiting) IBM and Informatica Corp. have created a reporting and business-intelligence package aimed at midsize companies for financial-analysis, risk-management, and regulatory-compliance applications.

(Ryan Naraine) IBM has released a pair of “FixPaks” to plug security holes in its DB2 Universal Database product after researchers discovered multiple code execution vulnerabilities.

(Jim Ruddy) Some applications periodically need to delete a significant percentage of records. With the high availability requirements typical of today’s applications, making data unavailable or restricting it to read-only during the DELETE process isn’t an option. In my earlier column, I described

(Fred Whitlark) The purpose of this article is to provide IBM business partners with important information about DB2 database performance in a DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for z/OS (hereafter simply referred to as DB2) environment. This article attempts to consolidate material from multiple sources,

(Jacqueline Emigh) IBM, its partners and some big-name users are piloting unannounced additions to the WebSphere product lineup. One set of future components will be tailored to RFID across government, industrial and retail applications. Another will be fine-tuned for use in the retail supply chain,

(Joe Pluta) There has been much discussion recently of the demise of RPG and native DB2 and even of the IBM midrange itself. RPG’s detractors point to everything from the high number of Java programmers graduating from school to the infamous burger flipping ad to IBM’s Developer Roadmap, which h

(Michael W. Bucken and Jack Vaughan) The IT industry is at the crossroads again. Yet some things are familiar. No one knows what “next big thing” is lurking around the corner, and corporate buyers are more selective than ever — but Big Blue is the player ahead on most lists. If it is not growin

(Ian Hopkins) In the world of industry database management, there are three major players: IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. There is a lot of literature about using both Microsoft and Oracle’s products, but information on using DB2 specifically with PHP was difficult to find. I develope

(Edward Hurley) DB2 Version 8 for the zSeries has been generally available for five months. You haven’t upgraded yet? You are not alone. Though the newest version of IBM’s venerable database is full of goodies, upgrading is not a trivial task but requires much planning and thought. Curt Cotner,