(david t) These are the ten topics that I felt were the most popular with the sales teams and customers I worked with in 2010. As with last year’s list, this year’s based solely on my own experience. No way I’m going to try to reconcile my colleagues’ opinions and come up with a composite list 🙂 T

(Yasutomo Nakayama and Eisuke Kanzaki) IBM Optim Data Redaction enables effective disclosure of public information while protecting confidential information of the enterprise, as well as personal customer data. It masks private information in free-text documents and forms, based on the role of the r

(Willie Favero) DB2 10 for z/OS has now been around for just a little more than 2 months. In that time, I have found only the minimum time to write anything about DB2 10. That I hope to change in 2011.

(Paolo Bruni, Neale Armstrong, Ravi Kumar, Kirsten Ann Larsen, Tink Tysor and Hao Zhang) The DB2 pureXML feature offers sophisticated capabilities to store, process and manage XML data in its native hierarchical format. By integrating XML data intact into a relational database structure, users can t

A Java utility to extract metadata on Lotus Quickr Document objects and transform that metadata into an IBM Cognos BI XML data source using an XSLT stylesheet.

(Susan Visser) First, what is a Flashbook? This is a name that I made up to describe the short, easy-to-read books that we publish for conferences such as IBM’s Information on Demand Conference. IBM delivers a huge quantity of messages and content at the conferences, in newsletters, in blogs, and

(Scott Hayes) On Christmas Day, while delayed at the Atlanta airport, I wrote a quick tutorial blog on using the vi (very intuitive) editor. In my haste to get on my delayed flight, I ran out of time to share some more important vi “how-to’s” with you. So, here’s “Part 2” which includes more vi tech

(Susan Visser) A complete best-practice data integration blueprint for reducing data warehouse costs and improving results

(Troy Coleman) With DB2 10 comes many changes in the catalog. In last week’s blog, I wrote about how some tables have been split out into new table spaces, which may have an impact on your catalog utility maintenance jobs such as imagecopy, runstats or reorgs.

(Robert Hendriks) A technique for report developers that wish to utilize a Tree Prompt but require that the value submitted be restricted to a designated level within a hierarchy.