(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.

(Raul Chong) Part 1 of the DB2 UDB Connectivity Cheat Sheet gave you everything you need to know for connecting DB2 UDB on Linux, UNIX and Windows to clients or to other platforms. Now part 2 takes you further, and gives you all the details for connecting DB2 UDB for z/OS clients to DB2 UDB for z/OS

(Joe Pluta) In my ongoing pursuit of knowledge concerning the performance characteristics of MySQL, it became clear to me that running part of the benchmark on the PC and part on the i was comparing apples to aardvarks. In order to create a more uniform battleground, I decided to resurrect my old pe

(Leons Petrazickis) We just released a small refresh of the DB2 Express-C 9.5.2 images for Linux 32-bit and Linux 64-bit.

(Emily Zhang and Tom Miller) Learn step-by-step how to configure the Unified Debugger session manager for use on a z/OS system, and learn how to use routines to manage the session manager. Proper setup of the session manager on z/OS can facilitate using IBM Data Studio Developer to debug stored proc

(Troy Coleman) Over the years IBM has produced many certifications for database administrators and developers. However, certifications designed for system programmers have been lacking- until now. IBM recently released “Exam 737: DB2 9 System Administrator for z/OS.”

(Dave Beulke) One of the first standards and principles neglected in the Java applications that I have seen is that the application references the database too many times to complete a single transaction. While it is good to use your ORM database interface, the architect and application programmer

(Phil Adams and Zina Mostafia) IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 provides support for SOAP over Java Message Service (JMS) with JAX-WS Web service applications. SOAP over JMS can be used as an alternative to SOAP over HTTP for transmitting SOAP request and response messages. This tutorial shows yo

(Curt Cotner) As you may recall, when we announced Data Studio pureQuery Runtime 2.1 for LUW, one of the new features in the release was ability to use pureQuery with .NET applications. This support is available for all of the DB2 servers; however, I want to focus a bit on this from a z/OS perspecti

(Willie Favero) Everyone should have an opportunity to attend IDUG. With that in mind, IDUG has extended the early registration discount to April 10, 2009. You have two additional weeks to get that nice $150 discount on a full conference registration. That’s enough to cover a good chunk of your airf