(Atul Daherkar, Manoj Khangaonkar and Yuntao Zhou) This article introduces you to business calendars in WebSphere Process Server V6.2. It walks you through a scenario that shows you how to author a calendar using WebSphere Integration Developer. You use a simple business process that references the

(Willie Favero) When DB2 9 was first delivered, you had the ability to implicitly create 60,000 databases. However, there was concern over the number of available DBIDs and the chance that there may not be enough for both explicitly and implicitly created databases.

(Jeff Sullivan) I totally love performance, and I like the whole process of trying to find the issues. There is nothing more cool than being the hero-of-the-hour by finding the extreme I/O usage, the I/O hot spots, the file system contention, the logical control unit bottlenecks, the horrible buffe

(Paolo Bruni and Michael Schenker) This IBM Redpaper provides a step-by-step introduction on how to get started with Web services using Data Studio V2.1. Our goal is to explain basic concepts and introduce the functions that can help you take your first steps in the Web services arena with DB2® for

(Troy Coleman) IBM just released Data Studio pureQuery Runtime for z/OS 2.1. This licensed Data Studio option is designed to deliver enterprise-ready applications with better performance, security and manageability.

(Uday Kale) This article describes how to use savepoints within transactions on IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). It also explains how you can manage savepoints with various clients, such as ESQL/C and JDBC, and in different environments, such as stored procedures.

(Willie Favero) When presenting on DB2 for z/OS as the place to keep you data warehouse, I am often asked how serious is IBM about using DB2 for z/OS and System z (the mainframe) as the database and platform of choice for a warehouse. I give a two part answer, where I really couldn’t go into detail

(GGZ) You may have heard and seen quite some value claims about pureXML in DB2 9, and a lot of details about the pureXML features. You may wonder how they connect in the real world. I will try to present the scenarios and how pureXML features can play an important role, abstracted from real-world ex

(Tamer Nassar and Murali Vridhachalam) This article is the second in a series that explores the XML capabilities of IBM DB2 9 and integrates those capabilities with IBM Lotus Forms by looking at retrieving the Lotus Form document in its XML native format from the database and embedding it in Java Se

(Bryan Patterson and Dexiong Terry Zhang) Once a database system is launched and stabilized for a set of applications, DBAs are often hesitant to make significant changes that could impact the availability or performance of existing applications that use the database.