(Troy Coleman) A while back I mentioned the SHARE Academic Award for Excellence, but with SHARE’s summer conference coming up — it’s Aug. 1-5 in Boston — I want to briefly discuss the organization itself.

(Khurram Faraaz, Dan Matthews and Swarajit Roy) The IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for XML delivers support for the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) XML standards XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0. The implementation of these standards in the Feature Pack for XML provide developers

(Savio Saldanha) Three common reasons why you don’t upgrade DB2 for z/OS. Continuously I hear that many sites around the country are laggards when it comes to upgrading DB2. Commonly the reasons I hear are; 1. We don’t want to be first 2. We have a Current – 1 release standard because we are ris

(Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Patric Becker, Yuan-chi Chang, Willie Favero, Nin Lei, Shirley Lin, Ron Lounsbury, Susan Widing Lynch, Cristian Molaro, Deepak Rangarao and Michael Schapira) As business cycles speed up, many customers gain significant competitive advantage from quicker and

(Dave Beulke) The comments about Optimization Service Center (OSC) and the free Data Studio were great last week. Sorry I could not reply because I am working with clients on their DB2 performance issues. I’m only able to look through the DB2-L Digest in the evenings.

(Nitin Gaur) This paper will attempt to discuss the usage scenario and demonstrate the use of WXS as a separate in memory data grid to store http sessions. This paper will discuss history and existing technology and introduces WXS as a technology that differentiates itself, by addressing existing sc

(Sonali Surange, Adekunle O Adio and Zeus Courtois) New capabilities in Fix Pack 3 of IBM Optim Development Studio and pureQuery Runtime 2.2 provide significant enhancements in security, control, and maintenance for database administrators who use pureQuery client optimization to improve security, s

(Krishna) Here is a sample SQL queries to compare the usage of “NOT IN” in Oracle and DB2..

(Willie Favero) Last Tuesday (June 29, 2010) I published a post discussing some of the changes to the DB2 Catalog in DB2 10 for z/OS. In that post, “The DB2 Catalog and Directory are about to go through a some major changes” , I mentioned that a few table spaces were being replaced as part of the ef

(Phani Madgula) This tutorial describes the new store and forward feature in WebSphere Process Server V7, and uses several application scenarios to show you how to use it for smoother processing of application requests.