(Willie Favero) A while back I gave a short introduction to InfoSphere Warehouse for System z in my post "We are very serious about data warehousing with DB2 for z/OS" . well, a lot has happened since them. One of the more cooler things just completed where a series of "viewlets" put together by Sun

(Roger E. Sanders) In my previous column, I introduced you to some basic DB2 storage concepts and pointed out that network storage provisioning can have a significant effect on database performance. In this installment, I’ll show you how to set an important storage I/O-related registry variable and

(Curt Cotner) Greetings from Berlin! I’m very pleased today to tell you about several new announcements we are making in the portfolio previously known as Data Studio. With these new releases, we are taking great strides toward the vision of Integrated Data Management — An integrated, modular envi

(Alex Woodie) The new DB2 Web Query enhancements–including an adapter that provides “occasional” access to the SQL Server database from the i OS business intelligence tool, and the capability to access and update DB2 Web Query reports from within Excel–won’t ship until August, IBM announced recent

(Kim J. Clark and Brian M. Petrini) This article describes how to design service-oriented architecture (SOA) based solutions using WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. Part 1 of this article series explores how design techniques change as an SOA matures.

(Willie Favero) IBM had a press release last week describing how UNC Health Care and IBM teamed up to speed the development of new treatments for diseases such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis and cancer. Although not explicitly spelled out in the press release, System z and DB2 for z/OS were at the hea

(Troy Coleman) One thing I love about blogging on DB2 is that it keeps me in research mode. Anything I mention here comes from at least a bit of research. And in the process of doing research for this blog, I’ve discovered a lot of good information in IBM Redbooks.

(Michael Haide and Benjamin G. Leonhardi) Data mining is the process of finding rules and patterns in structured data. DB2 data mining uses Intelligent Miner, which is part of InfoSphere Warehouse. Intelligent Miner stores those results in Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) format, which is bas

(Willie Favero) Four of the DB2 9 for z/OS product publication have just been updated; “Installation Guide”, “Introduction to DB2 for z/OS”, “IRLM Messages and Codes for IMS and DB2 for z/OS”, and “SQL Reference”. The “SQL Reference for Cross-Platform Development Version 3.1” was also updated last M

(Jan Koblenzer) It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted to this blog. There are so many good resources for DB2 information today that I’ve been struggling to find a topic I felt was worthy of posting. Maybe, since I live in Cleveland the only thing ‘worthy’ of blogging about may be Lebron James.