(Ray Houle) This article proposes a command-based alternative to using the Replication Center GUI for building replication. In it, I share a strategy for defining and customizing DB2 replication scenarios. This approach builds all the components needed for replication such as replication control tab

(Venkatesh Gopal and Srini Bhagavan) This tutorial shows you how to use IBM InfoSphere Data Architect (IDA) (formerly IBM Rational Data Architect) as a modeling tool for Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), and has been updated to include information about the 7.5.1 release of IDA. Learn about the various

(Craig Mullins) As regular readers of my blogs know, I sometimes choose to post answers to questions I get via e-mail. Today’s post is one of those times!

(Dave Beulke) Given the object model of Java and the relational model of the database, accessing data properly continues to be difficult for most Java application developers. Over the history of Java development, there have been many attempts within vendor products, interfaces and open source proje

(Syed-Muasir Khalil, Nazgol Sedghi, Nagesh Mvgv and Brian Hanczaryk) This tutorial demonstrates how to set up and manage the new flexible management topologies in IBM WebSphere Application Server V7. You will set up an administrative agent to manage one or more base application server nodes, and reg

(Jeffrey Benner) This post is a cheat sheet for most of what I think the DB2 database administrator needs to know about Symantec NetBackup as a DB2 backup, recovery and log archival utility. My notes make version and platform assumptions of Unix DB2 version 9 and above, and NetBackup 6.0.

(GGZ) Migration of DB2 for z/OS systems to a new release is a very important task that requires careful planning and systematic execution, which takes time. Yet pureXML in DB2 9 for z/OS is very attractive to application developers, but it requires DB2 9 NFM. If you have a need to start an applicati

(Robert Catterall) I recently got into an e-mail discussion about DB2 for z/OS I/O performance. The particular concern that sparked the discussion was the impact of synchronous remote disk mirroring on I/O response times ("synchronous remote disk mirroring" refers to a high-availability feature, pro

(Chuck Ballard, Oluwatosin Ajayi, Guy Bowerman, Alexander Koerner, Jacques Roy and Dick Snoke) In this IBM Redbooks publication we discuss and describe the capabilities for embedding IDS into applications and software. We introduce the technological architecture, and describe several of the functio

Are you writing SQL applications that need to be portable across platforms? Here’s the information you need to make sure your applications are portable. The tables in this article summarize the common SQL application features and make it easy for you to develop applications using SQL that is portabl