(Anson Kokkat) I often say the above phrase when I have to explain to everyone what the difference is between ‘RDA’ and ‘IDA’. We announced the renaming of IBM Rational Data Architect to IBM InfoSphere Data Architect today, December 16, 2008. See the announcement letter. It really is the same produ

(Willie Favero) Just in time for your Holiday gift giving, IBM has refreshed almost all of the DB2 9 for z/OS product documentation. You can head out to the Product Documentation web page to start downloading the latest PDF versions of almost all of the DB2 Doc.

(Bonnie Baker) In my previous columns, (“The Mystery of the DB2 SIX Lock”, Issue 2, 2008 and “The Mystery of DB2 for z/OS Index-only Updates and Deletes”), I promised to solve three DB2 for z/OS mysteries. The first column addressed situations in which the useful SIX lock might occur. The second col

(Robert Catterall) In an entry posted to this blog almost a year ago, titled “Aggressive DB2 Disaster Recovery”, I wrote about the tremendous – and very positive – impact of remote disk mirroring technology on organizations’ DB2 disaster recovery capabilities: companies that had developed DB2 DR pro

(Willie Favero) Absolutely. However, don’t get to overly concerned right now. If it should happen to you, and we are about to discuss if you are a possible candidate, DB2 Level 2 support knows what to do to help you out of that situation.

(Srinivas Varma Chitiveli and Josemina Magdalen) Gain an understanding of IBM Classification Module, Version 8.6 and its integration with IBM Content Collector, Version 2.1. This solution can be deployed to classify e-mails and archive them into easily discoverable folders of an enterprise content m

(Troy Coleman) Here’s a question that doesn’t always come up during the application design stage, but probably should: “What case do we store the data in?”

(Philip Nelson) You soon learn through bitter experience that there are certain files on your computer that you really shouldn’t tamper with, or at least not without having a backout plan of some sort. Things like /etc/hosts and /etc/services spring to mind.

(Paul Zikopoulos) In the first eleven parts of this series, Ive introduced you to some of the many features available within the IBM Data Studio integrated development environment (IDE) thats available for use with the IBM data servers. Specifically, Ive shown you how to set up and use database conn

(Rick Cook) Modern software development is, famously, a collaborative process. Unfortunately the tools we use to develop software don’t always reflect that home truth.