(Dave Beulke) As I talked about in the previous weeks, DB2 Version 9 for z/OS has over 50+ great new performance features. Many of these features can really benefit your standard DBA operations; improve application performance and overall availability of your systems and data.

(Doina Klinger) In an earlier developerWorks article, I showed you how WebSphere Business Events V 6.1 can interoperate out of the box with WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Server Bus V6.1. In this article, you’ll learn how this interoperability has improved in V6.2.

(Henrik Loeser) On my laptop I have most (not all, because something is always missing) software I need for my day job and some add-on tasks, including a database system. Right now it is DB2 9.7 Express-C, a free database system where I very often use the included pureXML feature to test out XPath o

(Chris Eaton) I just received an invitation to participate in a special program running at the Information On Demand conference being held in Las Vegas from October 26 – 30, 2009. As a prominent DB2 blogger I have a “back stage pass” apparently to a number of events and through my blog I’ll be givin

(Robert Catterall) Last week I taught a DB2 for z/OS database administration class for an organization that fairly recently completed the migration of their production environment to DB2 V8 in Conversion Mode. That being the case, a good bit of class time was spent in discussion of new features and

(Willie Favero) It’s time to step back from talking stored procedure detail and spend just one post talking about creating a stored procedure. Or better yet, what’s available to help us manage these wonderful stored procedures? Yes, this is a bit of a marketing pitch but I feel it’s appropriate for

(Rashmi Chawak and David B. Kolbinger) This is the last tutorial in a series of nine tutorials to help you prepare for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11.50 Fundamentals certification exam 555. This tutorial discusses replication technologies and provides an overview of high availability techn

(Willie Favero) By now I’m sure you have heard that in a not to distant future version of DB2, you will no longer be able to bind a DBRM (database request module) directly into a plan. Plans are underway (no pun intended) to make pointers to packages, or better know as your package list, the only wa

(Charles Ezzell) This is something I knew a bit about, but not the whole story, so I had a talk with one of our developers, Vitaliy Golub, who very kindly explained to me (sometimes giving me a few kicks) how things work. Much of the below I gathered from him.

(Nidhi Nijhawan) In this article, you will use IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (TX) resource adapters to retrieve and route data. The adapters provide access to databases, files, messaging systems, enterprise applications, and other data sources and targets. This article focuses on one of the