(Dave Beulke) Last time we looked at the application design of a major DB2 system. Now, lets delve a little further and look at the SQL used in these applications.

(Chris Eaton) I have blogged quite a few times about DB2 compression in the past (just search this blog for compression postings). Here is another video about what customers have to say about DB2 Scalability and Compression. If you are using compression or DPF for scalability please share your exper

(Robert Peterson) Learn about five key IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance technologies that can provide greater value to your DataPower applications. For whatever reason, the features described in this article are not frequently used — but they should be.

(Robert Catterall) If you’re a DB2 person, you’ve probably heard of DB2 Express-C. It’s the full-function DB2 for Linux/UNIX/Windows (LUW) product that you can use and deploy – even in a production environment – for free. One of the really nice things about DB2 Express-C isn’t even part of the produ

(Willie Favero) Testing for RSU0811 is now complete. It contains all service not already marked RSU along with PE resolution or HIPER/Security/Integrity/Pervasive PTFs and their associated requisites and supersedes through October 2008.

(Jeffrey Burt) Merge Healthcare is rolling out Cedara WebAccess, which enables medical professionals and patients to view digital medical images via any Web browser on any Web-enabled device, such as laptops to smartphones, including the Apple iPod. Merge built Cedara WebAccess with the help of tool

(Chris Eaton) To date we have seen a video from Dow Jones and a montage video about DBAs that have upgraded their skills to DB2 LUW.

(Robert Catterall) If you’re a DB2 programmer, you’re part of a relatively new and rapidly growing segment of the DB2 community. Not too many years ago, if you had asked me to name the major areas of DB2-related job responsibility, I would have answered (in no particular order): DB2 DBA, DB2 systems

(Chris Smith) Developers who were adventurous enough to try to develop Web applications on IBM i using PHP and Zend Framework often ran into a few roadblocks. Those days may be behind us now that Zend has released Zend Framework 1.7 with a native DB2 adapter for DB2/400.

(Allan McNaughton) Ok, admit it: You know you need Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), but haven’t quite figured out how to implement it. In all honesty, there are many paths to take. You could do nothing, and suffer the consequences. You could buy into an “end-to-end” ALM solution, and deal wit