(Sanjit Chakraborty) IBM Informix Innovator-C Edition is free to download and deploy, and provides a strong, reliable, easy-to-administer foundation for your database applications.

(Scott Hayes) Today’s contestant search show featured contestants presenting on both DB2 z/OS and LUW topics! Contestants came to us from all over the globe – even Australia! Our judges selected two contestants to advance to the March finals! Congratulations to Mimo and Bob! This was another great s

(Robert Catterall) So, in part 1 of this two-part entry, which I posted a couple of weeks ago, I referred to a question someone had sent to the DB2-L discussion forum.

(Kayalviszhi Ganesan) Extent reclaim is a method of table reorganization that frees up empty data extents within multi-dimensional clustering (MDC) tables, in addition to the space that is freed by regular REORG operations.

(Leon Katsnelson) You don’t have to be a genius to guess that IBM is hard at work on the next version of its DB2 database product. And it would not be a big stretch to imagine what there is probably some sort of an alpha/beta program in place. OK, both points are true. As a matter of fact, the Early

Very funny animated video on the tale of two villagers who want to break free from the baron’s taxes in the Town of Orrible and flee to the wonderful town of DB2.

(Marc Fasbinder) In this article, you will define business objects based on COBOL copybook structures and use data bindings for them without having to write code. This article is based on version 7.0.0.3 of WebSphere Integration Developer and WebSphere Process Server.

(irshadraihan) If you missed Watson’s drubbing of its human competitors on Jeopardy last week, do check it out on YouTube. Under the covers, Watson is an integrated stack of IBM components designed to mine multiple data sources simultaneously to build a response in the context of a question asked of

(Dave Beulke) The IBM roadshow was in Washington DC this last week. The presentations provided additional information on the full advantages of System Z and how it continues to lead all platforms in price performance.

(Craig Mullins) Sometimes the requirements of a particular application dictate that data needs to be sorted using some irregular collating sequence.