(Mary E. Moore) Multilevel security (MLS) addresses government requirements for highly secure data that can be shared between agencies. The eServer zSeries is the first IBM platform to provide multilevel security with new security features in DB2 UDB for z/OS V8 and z/OS V1.5. This technology en

(Sarah Ellis) In the last issue we gave an introduction to Unicode and the Version 8 enhancements in this area, including the conversion of the DB2 Catalog to Unicode and Unicode parsing. As stated previously, these enhancements will impact everyone to some degree so in this, the second half of the

(Gywneth Evans) This article is ideal for DB2 UDB users new to either DB2 external routines or programming DB2 database application logic in a .NET common language runtime (CLR) programming language. You will learn what a .NET CLR routine is, what is required to create one, how to create them, a

(Roger Sanders) Once a user has been authenticated and an attachment to an instance or a connection to a database has been established, the DB2 Database Manger evaluates any authorities and privileges that have been assigned to the user (these can be assigned directly to a user, or they can be obtai

(Hana Curtis) This article describes the considerations for migrating a Cloudscape application to DB2 Universal Database for Linux, UNIX and Windows. It covers migration of the database tables and data, application objects in the database, such as stored procedures and triggers, and the application.

In this survey, you will be asked to answer six questions regarding your experience using the DB2 Everyplace. Please include detailed descriptions where possible and feel free to copy and paste responses if they are the same for different questions. Please take a few minutes to complete this sur

(Jianining Fan) It is important for an Informix DBA to be familiar with basic IDS architecture; it gives broader and deeper insights into the database server and helps in daily database administration work such as troubleshooting, monitoring and fine tuning a database engine for better performance.

(Thomas Bauch and Mark Wilding) The DAS process is a separate DB2 process for managing local and remote DB2 servers. The DAS process is used by the DB2 administration tools, including the Control Center and the Configuration Assistant, to satisfy requests. The db2admin commands allow you to start, s

Web Services for DB2 Intelligent Miner is a collection of Web services that allow clients to describe and perform basic data-mining tasks using XML, XML Schema, and XPath on top of DB2 Intelligent Miner. It provides simple access to the main functions of DB2 Intelligent Miner Modeling and Scoring wi

(Paul C Zikopoulos and Jessica Escott) In IBM DB2 Universal Database V8.1, a host of rich functional tooling and monitors were implemented in DB2 such that the DB2 database truly began to monitor its own health status – independent of the DBA. DB2 “Stinger" enriches and extends the current autonomic