(Agustin Gonzalez and Matthias Nicola) Undeniably, XML has emerged as the de-facto standard for data exchange, service-oriented architectures (SOAs), and message-based transaction processing. As companies accumulate increasing amounts of XML data, they require more than message processing technology

(Danielle Vann and Jim Hobler) WebSphere Transformation Extender and the WTX Pack for SEPA provide all of the transformation and validation processes necessary for interaction with the European Payments Council implementation for SEPA payments. This article shows how to use DB2 pureXML to implement

(Thomas Snyder) When you’re working with Web pages, certain HTML characters require special processing. Otherwise, your Web page may not display properly or your SQL statement may end prematurely. Microsoft ASP and PHP provide functions to support this requirement. So does RPG. In this article, I’ll

(Troy Coleman) To me, the thing that sets DB2 apart from other relational databases is its cost-based optimizer. The DB2 Optimizer uses a very sophisticated formula to calculate the access path with the shortest elapsed time. Elapsed time includes both the I/O time and CPU required to process the qu

((Jim Brennan, Tamika Moody and John Rasmussen) This article shows you how to manage WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance configurations for high availability, consistency, and control in a multi-device environment, including configuration methods and examples using the command-line interface, Web GUI,

(Michael Schenker) Hello everyone – first let me introduce myself. I joined the Data Studio development team more than 2 years ago and since then I’ve been working on the Data Web Services capability. During that time I gained a lot of knowledge about connecting database assets to the Web, Java and

(Willie Favero) Four of the DB2 9 for z/OS product publication have just been updated; “Code”, “Messages”, “Installation Guide”, and “What’s New”. Details for getting the latest copies of each manual follow.

(Iqbal Goralwalla) During a recent migration exercise at a customer site, after a successful instance migration (db2imigr), was the bizarre discovery that none of the DB2 V8.2 instance profile registry variables had been migrated. This included DB2COMM which was not set. As such the clients could no

(Robert Catterall) Prefetch is another of those DB2 for z/OS topics that has been around for a long time but which has recently attracted attention anew. In this post, I’ll cover some prefetch basics. I’ll follow up in a few days with a post on prefetch monitoring and tuning, and a few days after th

(David Borean, Martin Oberhofer and Dr. Thomas Schwarz) This article is the first of three articles in a series. It provides a functional overview of the various features of the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server (InfoSphere MDM Server), targeting the Product Domain. Step through the capab