(Angus Kidman) The technology, codenamed mineLink and developed at the company’s research centre in Almaden, uses heuristic techniques to identify data fields which contain related information even though they may be labelled differently. For instance, a field labelled ‘Surname’ in one database may

(Jean Anderson and Susan Cline) IBM Cloudscape is a small-footprint Java database that doesn’t require any installation or administration. However, since Cloudscape is implemented entirely in Java, understanding the Java class path is the key to a trouble free — and not a troublesome! — installati

(Peggy Rader) This article describes your options for JDBC driver selection when using the DB2 Stored Procedure Builder (SPB) or the DB2 Development Center (DC) to create Java stored procedures on OS/390 and z/OS platforms.

With a head-turning new release (backed by the full power of IBM’s software portfolio), Informix technology blazes onto center field. In this special e-book for Informix customers, you’ll read how businesses are using the new release of Informix Dynamic Server, how Informix technology is findin

(Kathy Saunders and Jean Anderson) The IBM Cloudscape lightweight, pure Java technology-based embeddable architecture makes it the ideal database engine for deploying database-driven Java applications. With Cloudscape, the database engine becomes part of the application so the user never has to inst

DB2 ICE is for businesses looking for: –ease of implementation – because the integration is done for you. –low cost Linux clusters. –a wide range of cluster solutions (for analytics, modeling, database, Web serving, to name a few.) capacity to scale from small to very large data warehouse

(Paul C. Zikopoulos and Abdul H. Al-Azzawe) The term “performance” means just one thing to a programmer: How fast can I build the application? To attract developers, DB2 Universal Database (UDB) has to deliver an ecosystem that combines tooling, programming models, and data access in a cost-efficien

It is a bold goal: Create an architecture that makes it possible for software to do what humans do with the Web—access documents and run applications in a general way without requiring application specific knowledge and client software. An architecture that supports Web services provides the groun

(Roman B. Melnyk) This article gives you the basics of cloning a DB2 for Linux, UNIX, or Windows database.

(Martin LaMonica) IBM plans to spice up its content management software with XML technology that makes the storage and retrieval of corporate documents quicker and more flexible. The technology, dubbed Project Cinnamon, is being developed at the company’s Silicon Valley research labs, Big Blue s