(Willie Favero) DB2 10 for z/OS goes GA today (see my announcement entry from Oct 19, 2010 ). Along with being generally available now, the DB2 product documentation was also supposed to be available for download from the web today. The DB2 10 for z/OS – Technical Resources web page is now availabl

(Cliff Chu) IBM Optim Development Studio Version 2.2 includes many new features. Among these is a powerful test deployment management framework you can use to manage deployment of artifacts to your test environment.

(Robert Catterall) Greetings again from the 2010 IBM Information on Demand conference (IOD) in Las Vegas. Lots of good DB2 10 for z/OS stuff today. Some highlights of sessions I attended:

(Willie Favero) Are you on DB2 9 for z/OS? Are you using DB2’s trusted context? Are you also occasionally testing your disaster recovery plan? If you answered yes to all three of these questions, then here’s a little APAR that might be of interest to you.

(Adam Gartenberg) I had a chance to sit down yesterday with a number of a number of people responsible for creating (or deploying) IBM’s Data Security solutions, arranged as part of the blogging program.

(Craig Mullins) Today I attended the IOD conference and had the opportunity to listen to Jeff Josten present an technical overview of DB2 10 for z/OS. Even though information and specifications have been trickling out on DB2 10 for z/OS over the course of the past year or so, this is the first DB2 1

(Rob Sidhu) This article is for IBM ILOG JViews Diagrammer web developers and those interested in using the web development capabilities offered by IBM ILOG JViews Diagrammer. It discusses the interactors that allow users of IBM ILOG JViews Diagrammer to alter the graphical representation of Web-bas

(Willie Favero) DB2 10 for z/OS goes GA today (see my announcement entry from Oct 19, 2010 ). Along with being generally available now, the DB2 product documentation was also supposed to be available to download from the web today.

(Rebecca Bond) DB2’s Label Based Access Control (LBAC) provides a flexible way to construct security labels to protect data at a highly granular level. Unfortunately, I seldom see organizations using LBAC but I think I know why. The common theme seems to be “it’s just too hard to use LBAC to harden

(Michael L. Pauser) The latest IBM Optim Development Studio includes many new features. Among these is a completely redesigned way to create and manage your routines and the adoption of routine templates.