By Stephen Shankland – IBM has expanded its geographic ambitions for Linux, signing a deal to bundle a version of its database software with a distributor of the open-source operating system in China.

By Lisa Vaas – IBM is working on new technology that extends the reach of its DB2 Information Integrator software to let users dig out data from every corner of an enterprise, whether in a data warehouse or outside of it.

Hurray! .NET support is now available in DB2 UDB 8.1.2! Check out the news story here for more information about DB2 UDB integration in the Windows environment.

This document contains information about increasing throughput performance of Replication Agent for DB2.

By Marin Komadina – Concerned about who is walking unchallenged through the Public group door into your database? Marin Komadina examines the security aspects of the DB2 database default PUBLIC group.

by Barrie Sosinsky – Check out this and other tips at SearchDatabase.com.

This paper provides an overview of the DB2 operating environment on AMD64, and addresses commonly asked questions to enable you to quickly and effectively get up and running with DB2 UDB for Linux on AMD64-based systems.

By Kim Moutsos – Where would we be without Edgar F. Codd? Codd, who died in April at the age of 79, elevated database management to a science when he described a relational model of data — one firmly grounded in predicate logic and mathematics — in a series of papers published between 1969 and 1981.

This tutorial introduces you to DB2 security and instances. To understand the concepts described in this tutorial, you should already have a basic knowledge of database concepts…(R)

By Raul F. Chong – Are you a user of the DB2 V8 Connectivity Cheat Sheet? Check out the newly updated version. It contains all new scenarios, including iSeries connectivity!