(Vikram Khatri) If you are using DB2 Control Center on Windows and wondering how to set the code page of your choice, follow these steps.

(Paolo Bruni, Marcelo Antonelli, Davy Goethals, Armin Kompalka and Mary Petras) This IBM Redbooks publication is the result of a project dedicated to the current DB2 Version 9 Utilities Suite product. It provides information on introducing the functions which help in setting up and invoking the util

(Daniel Pittner) With IBM InfoSphere Content Collector, you can prompt users to add additional archiving information to e-mail documents before the documents are archived. The user interfaces that are used to prompt for data are Web 2.0-style Dojo applications, called forms. This article describes h

(Dave Beulke) Given the snowstorm and the extra time in airports, I thought it was perfect time to do a blog entry. In the early releases of DB2, we had to work the holidays to do the Reorgs because that was the only time during the year when we weren’t taking orders. Now with online Reorgs and th

(Troy Coleman) When I first installed DB2 9 for z/OS, I noticed a secondary port that supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). I was pleased I to see that DB2 for z/OS could participate in Web applications that require a secure connection.

(William B. McLaren and Ming W. Wu) Understand the capabilities of created global temporary tables (CGTTs), a new feature in IBM DB2 9.7. This new type of temporary table utilizes persistent storage that can improve performance and manageability. This article covers the definition, syntax, specifics

(Greg Harris) This document describes implementation of DB2 row compression in an Adaptive Warehouse generated data warehouse.

(Willie Favero) Yes, I do realize I said three parts… However, I just came across this one last APAR that I wanted to discuss. Since I have just finished a series of post on DB2’s RDS sort (check out my post from Dec 1, 2009 , Nov 29, 2009 , Nov 27, 2009 A , Nov 27, 2009 B , […]

(Conor O’Mahony) If you attended the 2009 IBM Information on Demand conference, you may have seen the following video. It focuses on how two IBM clients benefit from workload-optimized solutions from IBM. A workload-optimized solution is essentially a single system where all components (hardware, da

(Willie Favero) APAR Friday’s Part 3 discusses two APARs that deliver new function; one for DB2 Version 8 and DB2 9, the other just for DB2 9.