(Robert Catterall) Apologies for the delay in getting this entry posted to my blog — the time since IBM’s 2009 Information On Demand conference concluded on October 29 has been very busy for me. Now I have a little downtime, so I can share with you what I picked up on day 4 of the conference.

(Gagan Maheshwari, Ramesh Gopal Srinivasan and Navya Ramachandraiah) Informix 4GL (I4GL) is a rapid development tool that provides easy language support for creating applications for Informix databases. With the introduction of I4GL v7.50, I4GL you can publish your I4GL legacy code as a Web service,

(Susan Visser) In this episode of The DB2Night Show, special guest Chris Eaton from IBM will share his TOP 10 Favorite SQL Snapshot commands, host Scott Hayes will throw in a few of his faves, and EVERYONE who contributes at least one of their own favorite SQL Snaps to the show will receive access t

(Chris Eaton) I’ll write a few blog posts on DB2 pureScale Scalability to keep them into bite sized pieces for all. As I add more postings I’ll update the links below so you can move between all the separate postings.

(Paul Zikopoulos) Customers choose DB2 as their database of choice because of its incredible time to value, its ability to scale and integrate across disparate environments, its robustness, and for the minimization of down-time (both planned and unplanned). In this article, I focus on the high-avail

(Craig Mullins) Everyone is always interested in the latest and greatest features of their favorite DBMS, in this case DB2. But sometimes features get removed from the DBMS when a new version is released. According to the IBM teleconference on DB2 X for z/OS today, there are several features planned

(Dave Beulke) Attending all the sessions at the IBM Information on Demand conference is impossible, but attending the right presentation to get the most out your time is vital. Not every conference is important, but with money tight and the economy questionable, learning and staying ahead of the pa

(Srinivasan R. Mottupalli and Deepak Agrawal) Unicode transformation format (UTF) is a standard character set that many applications are using to support multiple languages. Traditionally, the languages have a one-to-one correspondence with the corresponding locales. So, setting one locale means usi

(Troy Coleman) Much has been written in blogs and z/OS forums about the need to hire a younger generation to take over for the aging workforce. The reality is that fewer computer science graduates are wanting to work on the mainframe because it wasn’t taught to them — and because the mainframe wasn

Jeff Sullivan talks about Performance Policies and Politics. (video)