(Willie Favero) By now you have probably heard about DB2 Sort for z/OS V1.0, a new tool for DB2 for z/OS from IBM. DB2 Sort for z/OS provides sort processing for the DB2 utilities.
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IBM Cognos Proven Practices: Guidelines to Monitoring Company and Group Status by Form for IBM Cognos Controller
A guideline to creating a report that will help you review status of Company or Group by Form
How to use DB2 with Open Office Base
(Radim Kolar) Open Office Base is entry level database program for creating reports and forms. It is part of Open Office productivity suite. It does not have native support for DB2 unlike MySQL and Oracle, but it can use user provided JDBC driver. I will show you how to use it.
Smart Analytics Optimizer with zEnterprise—Your Private Cloud
(Dave Beulke) Within the recent zEnterprise announcement there were several exciting comments about the new query performance within the IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer. This smart system leverages the integrated platform, providing industry leading scalability for data warehouse and business intellig
IBM Cognos Proven Practices: IBM Cognos 8 Audit Extension
A IBM Cognos 8 SDK application that provides enhanced auditing for IBM Cognos 8 BI. The version of the application is 1.5.05 and it will work with IBM Cognos 8 BI versions 8.3 and up.
The Mainframe’s Promising Future
(Troy Coleman) I travel around the country speaking to customers about the mainframe. Some people tell me we shouldn’t call it the mainframe any longer, because so many outsiders hear the name and think the mainframe is dead. Others tell me we should be proud of what the mainframe has always represe
APAR Friday: Single enclave support for query parallelism
(Willie Favero) We have been waiting for the arrival of this APAR for quite some time. Getting to single enclave support for query parallelism is a pretty big deal, well for at least anyone messing around with parallelism and Workload Manager (WLM) it is. Let me explain to you why…
Developing custom widgets for Business Space using Dojo, Part 3: Using multiple templates in iWidget and inheriting from a base widget
(Meenakshi Guruaribam Khanna, Divya Satyavarapu, Anil R Patlolla and Anand Bandaru) In Part 3, you’ll learn how how to use a base template to achieve a consistent look and feel throughout your user interface, as well as how to use a base widget that is inherited by all iWidgets to avoid duplication
DB2 Express-C Light – A reduced footprint XML database
(Matthias Nicola) A couple of months ago I wrote about the updated version 9.7.2 of the free DB2 Express, which includes all of DB2Œs base features including DB2 pureXML. Now there is a DB2 Express-C Light version for Windows.
Using Data Replication for Continuous Availability
Asynchronous, software-based replication has become a popular way of implementing availability and active-active solutions for data. This short video provides an overview using Q Replication.