(Kim J. Clark) Part 1 of this series described how service-oriented architectures (SOAs) mature through a number of stages, and showed what solution styles are used at each level. This article focuses on the advancements made moving from Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to Service Exposition

(Robert Catterall) I recently fielded a question, from a DB2 person who works for an insurance company, about the performance implications of defining large parameters for DB2 for z/OS stored procedures. At this company, DB2 stored procedures written in COBOL had been created with PARAMETER STYLE GE

This screencast demonstrates compression technology and its enhancements in DB2 9.7. (video)

(Joo Guan Yap) This tutorial is the sixth in a series of nine tutorials designed to help you become familiar with all the different aspects of IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) and help you get ready for the IDS Fundamentals Certification exam. In this part, which corresponds with Part 6 of the exam

This chapter describes methods to convert XML documents to rows in relational tables, commonly known as shredding or decomposing of XML documents.

(Bella Kogan) The following example shows how to setup federation between two DB2 LUW databases.

(Willie Favero) This is very cool. If you live in Houston or the surrounding area, within reasonable driving distance of Houston, or just an inexpensive plane ride away, IBM has a great deal for you. On September 15, 2009, IBM is sponsoring a no-charge DB2 User Group Seminar in Houston.

(Scott Hayes) We just completed our Webinar on DB2 LUW Index Design Best Practices and Case Studies. Clustering Indexes were discussed, and one of the Webinar participants sent an email asking this question:

(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 and improve application performance and overall availability of your systems and data.

(Vijayabhaskar Siddared and Josephine E. Justin) Lotus Quickr is a team collaboration offering from IBM that provides ready-to-use capabilities that leverage Web 2.0 features. It provides services such as document library, blogs, and wikis that can be dynamically added to the places created by users