(Willie Favero) Testing for RSU0907 is now complete. It contains all service not already marked RSU along with PE resolution or HIPER/Security/Integrity/Pervasive PTFs and their associated requisites and supersedes through June 2009.

(Conor O’Mahony) Yesterday, in a blog post titled Data Compression in IBM DB2 and Oracle Database, we saw that IBM DB2 gets better data compression rates than Oracle Database for TPC-H data. You might wonder why DB2 is so much better. The reasons boil down to two basic differences:

IBM has been making huge technical strides with their flagship database, DB2, over the past few years. As expected, the recent launch of DB2 9.7 has not failed to impress, incorporating even more improvements. (pdf)

(Willie Favero) My original intent for today’s blog post was to use the trite expression “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” to make a point about the relocation of the DSNZPARM information in the IBM product manuals. Of course, you’re probably wondering what this old idiom has to do with DSNZPA

(Radim Kolar) We migrated warehouse to DB2 9.7, because we heard lot of success stories related to DB2 9.7 compression. I was quite sceptic about it first, but after hearing more reports we finally decided to migrate too (from DB2 v8).

(Craig Mullins) The IBM Information on Demand (IOD, for short) conference is rapidly approaching. As usual, the conference will be held in October, in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year, IOD is the week of October 25 thru 30, 2009 at the Mandalay Bay casino and hotel.

(Timothy Prickett Morgan) While The Four Hundred was on holiday at the end of July, IBM hosted a shindig at one of its adjunct T.J. Watson Research Center campuses in Hawthorne, New York, which is just a 30-minute drive from my house in Upstate Manhattan. And even though I was busy with a bunch of n

(Conor O’Mahony) Last week, in my blog post titled Truth in Advertising – Advanced Data Compression in Oracle 11g, I discussed the fact that data compression rates are highly dependent upon 1) the nature of the data and 2) the database environment. I’d like to follow up on that post with a data poin

(Antonio Cangiano) I’m glad to announce that the API team has just released version 1.0.2 of the adapter for Django. And on my birthday to boot, what a nice present. This version extends its support to the recently released Django 1.1, as well as incorporating the feedback that was received earlier

(Dmitriy Fot and Martin Oberhofer) IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Server provides the ability to manage master data, relying heavily on Web services and XML. IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances provide the ability to secure Web services deployments. In this article, see how you can l