(Scott Hayes) What’s all this fluffy cloud stuff about? Finally someone is explaining it in a way that makes sense to technical humans!

(Rajendra Kamath and Brent Gross) The IBM Data Server .NET Provider supports application development for IBM Informix. It is available for download as part of the Informix Client Software Development Kit (SDK). This article describes the two .NET providers that support .NET application development f

(Paolo Bruni, John Iczkovits, Hennie Mynhardt and Peter Zerbini) This IBM Redbooks publication will help you tailor and configure DFSMS constructs to be used in a DB2 9 for z/OS environment. In addition, it provides a broad understanding of new disk architectures and their impact in DB2 data set ma

(Willie Favero) Here’s one teleconference you are going to want to attend, especially if you are using PeopleSoft. Not only is DB2’s locking an extremely interesting topic, the teleconference is being presented by Brian Holroyd. Oh, you say you don’t know Brian? You can take my word, you are not goi

(Vikram S. Khatri and Burt L. Vialpando) Many people think that each IBM software product requires its own copy of Eclipse, but that is not always the case. It is possible to share the Eclipse installation between different IBM software development products. so that the core Eclipse components are n

(Radim Kolar) More than year ago i presented simple document how to insert data into DB2 quickly using PHP and multi row insert statement. Today i will show you something for JDBC coders, similar but more flexible.

(Deepak Agrawal and Vishwas T. Mahadevaiah) IBM Informix 4GL is a comprehensive development and production environment for creating sophisticated database applications. The 7.50.xC4 release of Informix 4GL includes direct support for file I/O without requiring function calls in another language such

(Willie Favero) Information on Demand (IOD) 2010 conference must be getting closer. Speakers have received (are receiving) their acceptance e-mails (mine arrived a few weeks ago), keynote speakers have been picked and are being advertised, portions of the agenda is now available for viewing, and the

While testing an OLTP workload, it was found that when migrating from DB2 V9.1 FP8 to DB2 V9.7 FP1, there was a significant performance regression observed in its runtime. The tests were executed on an AMD Opteron machine running Linux RHEL 5.4. When analyzing the profile of the workload via oprofil

(Dave Beulke) This last week was very interesting in that I read a number of articles about databases other than DB2. It is always good to learn what the other vendors are up to. The first thing you learn is that fast and performance are a relative terms. Loading tens of millions of rows through ETL