(Paolo Bruni, Nisanti Mohanraj, Cristian Molaro, Yasuhiro Ohmori, Mark Rader and Rajesh Ramachandran) Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) is a set of protocols that permits multiple local and remote database systems and application programs, to work together. Any combination of relat

(Stephen Rea) The message processing language of ESQL has been joined by XPath 1.0, and either may now be used as property values for message routing and transformation in the new database and routing nodes in WebSphere Message Broker V6.1. The new non-programming Route, DatabaseRoute, and DatabaseR

(Dave Beulke) I received some great comments and questions based on the last blog entry/video about the many new features in DB2 Cobra. One of the more interesting questions was asked “How much work or how compatible is the new DB2 with Oracle?” The answer DB2 is very compatible, so compatible in

(Chuck Ballard, Holger Kirstein, Srinivasrao Madiraju, Sreeni Paidi, Nora Sokolof and Renato Spironelli) In this IBM Redbooks publication, we discuss considerations, and describe a methodology, for migrating from Oracle 10g to the Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). We focus primarily on the basic topic

(Alice Ma) IBM DB2 Performance Expert Extended Insight Feature extends the capabilities provided in DB2 Performance Expert by providing end-to-end database monitoring for Java technology applications, with even more capabilities for those running in IBM WebSphere Application Server. This feature giv

(Leons Petrazickis) There’s an interesting webcast on July 17: Enabling applications from Oracle to DB2 the easy way – A DB2 Chat with the Lab

(Willie Favero) I almost committed a huge documentation faux pas this week. I made a big deal about the six DB2 9 for z/OS product publications that were updated in June while completely ignoring the fact that 16 (yes, you read that correctly, sixteen) DB2 for z/OS Version 8 product publications wer

This screencast by Bradley Steinfeld walks you through getting started with the free DB2 Express-C on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud using RightScale server templates. Part 1 demonstrates the setup using non-persistent local storage.

This document contains best practices related to query performance issues for approaching migration to DB2 9 for z/OS.

(Tom Schneider) Previous articles on developerWorks have addressed WebSphere MQ security on the distributed platforms. This article examines WebSphere MQ security on z/OS, with particular attention to controlling administrative access, and using RACF classes effectively for MQ security. While this a