(Scott Laningham) Cindy Saracco, a senior solution architect at IBM’s Silicon Valley Laboratory, explains pureXML, what it brings to the next release of DB2, and talks about learning resources.

(Christy Maver) With the explosion of information, the volatility of energy markets, and the economic uncertainties brought on by recession, no one is immune to the global trends that are disrupting and transforming the fabric of business. People, companies, organizations, nations, and economies are

(Arlan Finestead and Sangeetha Srinivasan) IBM Data Studio Administrator for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows provides DBAs with powerful ways to manage and control complex changes made to their databases, while preserving the underlying data. In Version 2.1, it’s even easier to do this using new co

(Robert Catterall) Prefetch (the basics of which I described in part 1 of this 3-part blog entry) has been a feature of DB2 for z/OS for as long as I can remember (I first got my hands on the DBMS around 1987, when Version 1 Release 2 was current). Over the years, prefetch has been enhanced in vario

(Susan Visser) In this timely Webinar, my good friend Rebecca Bond, independent security consultant and author of Understanding DB2 9 Security, will share important DB2 Security Tips and Best Practices with participants. People who know Rebecca personally also know that she is a part-time comic and

(Werner J. Vanzyl) PHP and REST technologies produce user-friendly Web user interfaces that you can rapidly develop and easily maintain. This article will explain the components needed and the steps involved to develop a basic PHP client to a human-centric workflow application that is deployed to We

(Craig Mullins) All good DB2 developers and DBAs know about Stage 1 and Stage 2 predicates, right? But have you ever heard of Stage 3 and Stage 4 predicates? Well, you’re about to!

(Willie Favero) Here’s one more APAR to keep an eye on (it’s not closed yet). It’s for DB2 Version and retrofits a DB2 9 function back to V8.

(Ming-Pang Wei and John Chun) The popularity of Web applications has given rise to mashups, which allow creation of consolidated information through information aggregation. While mashups are not a new concept, IBM InfoSphere MashupHub provides a single integration tool to combine data from multiple

(Robert Catterall) A few days ago, I posted part 1 of a 3-part entry on prefetch in a DB2 for z/OS environment. That post covered the basics: the different types of prefetch and how they work. In this part 2 entry, I’ll cover monitoring and tuning in relation to prefetch. I’ll provide information in