We’re delighted to announce that for a limited period we will be offering free DB2 for LUW health checks to UK DB2 customers.

(Brian T. De Pradine and Katherine Sanders) Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) is the successor to the previous standard Java API for XML based RPC (JAX-RPC). JAX-RPC 1.0 and JAX-RPC 1.1 defined an API and conventions for supporting a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) style of Web service invoca

(Kate Dawson) Have you heard of The DB2Night Show? Recently, I’ve been hearing about it quite a bit so I decided to check it out for myself. I visited The DB2Night Show website and browsed around. I learned that the show’s mission is to build a fun, interactive community around DB2 LUW. Each episode

(Leon Katsnelson) This week we were at Lotusphere 2010 demonstrating DB2 Express-C for Lotus Foundations. One of the giveaways we had was a free book on DB2 Express-C. The book proved top be very popular and we ran out very quickly. I also got a lot of questions from people who did not have an oppo

(Thomas Hampp, Prasad Balunaini and Thilo Goetz) Gain an understanding of Text Analysis Perspective and its integration with IBM InfoSphere eDiscovery Analyzer, Version 2.1.1. With this feature, you can quickly and easily configure simple text analysis engines and deploy them to IBM InfoSphere eDisc

Learn about the wealth of new features in DB2 9 for z/OS! Join this free teleconference from IBM and you will see how it’s new features improve business efficiency and reduce costs by increasing the productivity of administrators and programmers.

(Dave Beulke) Some of the new performance features in DB2 Version 9 for z/OS are built into the software. To leverage some of these functions and features, system maintenance DBAs and application DBAs need to coordinate their efforts to realize the benefits.

(Troy Coleman) Over the years I’ve seen many developers fail to consider DB2 locking when writing their applications. As a result, some of these applications are burdened with high CPU usage, long wait times or even high abort rates due to deadlock or timeouts.

(Scott Hayes) It is a common and unwise practice to think that your development, test, and QA hardware should have a hardware configuration similar to your production environment. In fact, I assert and suggest that this practice is a really BAD idea. When development and test machines have memory an

(Pandian Mariadoss) The IBM Maximo V7.1 Asset Management System manages an organization’s assets throughout its life cycle – from requisition to retirement. Maximo V7.1 uses the Integration Framework to integrate with an external system to exchange information.