(Willie Favero) Yes, it says DB2 LUW in the title of today’s blog entry. That’s because this is such a cool feature being announced today for LUW, that I thought it should get a mention here. DB2 pureScale on IBM Power Systems provides unlimited capacity, continuous availability, and application tra

(Charles Babcock) IBM is seeking to make DB2 more competitive with Oracle by bringing a level of scalability to its rack-mount servers that was previously only associated with DB2 on the mainframe.

(Joe Lennon) The pureXML capabilities of IBM DB2 allow you to store XML natively in a database without modification, while Adobe Flex applications can read XML directly and populate Flex user interfaces. In this three-part article series, you will create a microblogging application that takes advant

(Henrik Loeser) DB2 produces diagnostic information which is stored in “db2diag.log” files. Depending on the setting of diaglevel there is more or less information in those log files.

(Michael Sansoterra) We are moving from green screen to PC GUI screens and have come across a need to have the “reverse” of returning a result set. We need to be able to pass a stored procedure of one or more rows (i.e., a result set) in a single call. We could have a single table, but more than one

(Salvador Ledezma, Swetha Patel and Kathryn Zeidenstein) In addition to database change management, Optim Database Administrator Version 2.2 for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (ODA) provides DBAs with powerful and easy-to-use tools for performing day-to-day administrative tasks. For example, the U

(Robert Catterall) Recently I worked with an organization that is planning an implementation of SAP’s ERP application, with the associated database to be managed by DB2 9 for z/OS. This impending SAP installation was a major impetus for getting DB2 9 in-house, thanks largely to the significant enhan

(Randy Goering) In DB2 for LUW 9.5 and 9.7 granting just the right level of authority to end-users is a challenge. On the one hand granting too much authority can introduce security, stability and integrity issues. On the other hand granting too little authority can lower productivity of the end-u

(Lori Napoli) IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (WebSphere TX) provides a WSDL importer to accelerate the creation of a type tree representing the WSDL. When the WSDL importer is used, a classic type tree is created for the body of the SOAP message along with a map XML file that can be imported

There has been a lot of talk and interest about Disaster Recovery and Cloud Computing. Specifically, is it possible to use a public cloud as a Disaster Recovery site? The answer is not that simple. First, an on-premise production system will be behind at least one firewall and often more! Secondly,