Venetica, a leading provider of enterprise content integration (ECI) software, announced the availability of a Content Bridge to IBM DB2 Content Manager OnDemand, enabling customers to leverage the power of distributed content stored in statements, invoices and other formatted computer output on beh

(Abdul Al-Azzawe) With the release of DB2 V8.1.3, you can now quickly build data bound ASP.NET WebForms using the same drag-and-drop and design-time manipulation features you are accustomed to when building WinForm applications. In this simple DeptEmployees application, we will walk you through t

(Robert Catterall) I read your column “Time to Reconsider SMS,” and I agree with you regarding the advantage of defining DB2 user tablespaces under the control of the Storage Management System (SMS). But what about the DB2 Catalog and directory? Can you also define DB2 catalog and directory data set

DB2 Information Integrator enables real-time integrated access to heterogeneous data such as relational databases, XML documents, queues, and text files. It can all be transparently accessed from a common platform and combined using the power of SQL. In this tutorial you’ll use DB2 Information Integ

(Corinne Baragoin) OLAP has evolved into a mainstream information technology and it is a major component of Business Intelligence solutions across all industries today. The increasing demands for analyzing large amounts of data and empowering a growing number of employees throughout the enterprise

(Alan Smith) This tip gives you a list of tablespaces in a DB2 subsystem that hasn’t been copied in a certain number of days. It gives the date of the latest copy if one exists, or ‘*NO COPY*’ if there is no image copy. For recovery purposes, it’s important for a DBA to be able to determine which

(Clint Boulton) While speed and performance are considered requisite constants in the realm of database software, major vendors aim to keep their products fresh by adding new features. On the strength of that notion, IBM is poised to unveil a few new features to its next-generation Universal Dat

(Pat Selinger) Almost any enterprise, even a small one, has multiple data sources containing business information. Consider e-mail databases, files containing text documents, spreadsheet files and so forth. Yes, you’re right; these are not “databases” in the classical DB2 Universal Database sense.

(Willie Favero) New to the OS/390 community, DB2 Triggers can automate tasks and enable code reuse. Here’s what you need to know to put them to work. Database managers on DB2’s distributed platforms already know how triggers can save time and effort. Triggers have been available on Unix, OS/2, a

(Suita Gupta, Allan Tham and Raul Chong) If you’re a database specialist interested in growing your DB2 Universal Database skills, there’s a good chance that you’ve already developed database skills with another relational database product somewhere along the way. In an earlier developerWorks articl