(Zhi Qiu Xie and Zi Hui Duan) This article describes business object instance validation service in WebSphere Process Server that you can invoke for either implicit interface qualifier-based validation, or for explicit programmatic validation.

(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.

(Philip Nelson) DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows 9.7 has been generally available for a month or so. As part of the IDUG Solutions Journal coverage of this new release I wrote this article on migrating existing systems.

(Maksym Petrenko) This article provides a guide to using the new enhancements to DB2 9.7 that enable you to make online changes to the database schema. Online change means that the objects being changed remain available for read and write access even during the change process.

David Tung, Solutions Architect at xkoto Inc., talks about GRIDSCALE load balancer for DB2 databases and its use for building very elastic DB2 solutions for Cloud Computing.

(Jeffrey Schwartz) I attended an event for analysts and media on Tuesday at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, N.Y., where the company launched its Smart Analytics System.

(Chris Smith) One of the things that I have discerned about IBM over the years is that the company tries to give customers what they want, which undoubtedly has led to its success. While the company I’m sure has principles, it isn’t weighed down by dogma. Its solutions may not always be the most pop

(Carolyn Henry, Marcia Miskimen, Jayashree Ramachandran and Sailaja Bandlamoori) Maintaining a database is really all about change. You need to ensure that your database applications work as intended, that changes roll out smoothly, and that if something goes wrong, you can investigate the problem.

(Robert Catterall) Earlier this week, I posted an entry to this blog that described a “lesson learned” experience in SQL programming (having to do with the use of a WHILE loop in a SQL stored procedure to process rows in a result set generated and returned by a nested stored procedure). Today, I’ll

(Yash Manwani and Mike Springgay) This article introduces autonomous transactions, a feature introduced in DB2 9.7. Autonomous transactions are of interest to both database administrators and application developers.