(Michael Sansoterra) Astronomers tell us that many galaxies are colliding, which can cause quite an upheaval. “Collision” is a good word to describe how some shops feel about intermingling the System i (AS/400, iSeries…) with other technologies. SQL Server and DB2 are both large product families, an

(Wei Wang, HongDong Zhao and Wei Liao) ECM Widgets is a set of widgets that enables users to build IBM enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) applications more rapidly and efficiently. Ideal for both business and IT users, ECM Widgets provides a set of out-of-the-b

So, what exactly is spatial data? Here’s a simple definition: Spatial data represents real-world features and their relationship to one another. This includes geographic features (rivers, cities, mountains, forests, seas, lakes, etc), areas (flood zones, military exclusion zones, sales territorie

(Robert Catterall) As some of you may know, I’m a big fan of the native SQL procedure functionality introduced with DB2 for z/OS Version 9 (I’ve written a number of blog entries on the subject, starting with one posted last year).

(Piotr Godowski) The purpose of this article is to provide background information about the DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows tracing functionality and how you can use it along with the powerful Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) to detect application resource leaks. The article covers basic informatio

(Dave Beulke) Many years ago, IBM System Z announced the introduction of additional new specialty processors. The first System Z specialty engine introduced for data sharing was the internal coupling facility (ICF), next the integrated facility for Linux (IFL), next the application assist processor

(Troy Coleman) A common problem database administrators (DBAs) try to avoid when designing an application is a primary key or index that is for ever increasing like a sequence number or timestamp. DBAs go out of their way to avoid keys like this because of locking contention issues. During the inser

9Paul Zikopoulos) Information management software is at the core of enterprise computing. Companies need access to a wide range of information such as XML, message queues, documents, streaming video, and other rich media types. The On Demand evolution makes continuous availability a necessity and is

(Conor O’Mahony) DB2 pureScale created quite a stir at the IBM Information on Demand conference. A number of people wanted to know more about how to use the “on-demand capacity” aspect of DB2 pureScale. I thought you would be interested to hear how some clients plan to use DB2 pureScale.

(Radim Kolar) I am amazed how fast is DB2 version 9.7 moving into production. It is much faster then 9.5. I started to see first signs of 9.5 used in production for about 1 year after release.