(Willie Favero) IBM had two System z server (mainframe) announcements this morning, Tuesday, October 21, 2008. One was for the z10 Business Class (BC) Server and the other was a second general availability (GA) announcement for the z10 Enterprise Class (EC) server.

(Craig Mullins) Database administration is a very technical discipline, but it is also a discipline in which the practitioner is very visible politically within the organization. As such, DBAs should be armed with the proper attitude and knowledge before attempting to practice the discipline of data

(Roger E. Sanders) User-defined functions (UDFs) are used to enrich the capabilities of IBM DB2 by providing new functionality that is not available with the rich set of built-in functions provided. This tutorial introduces you to user-defined functions and walks you through the basic steps used to

(Robert Catterall) I’m blogging about my Day Three of the 2008 International DB2 Users Group European Conference on the morning of Day Four. Yesterday (Wednesday) I delivered my presentation (on what I call ultra-availability). Before that late-afternoon session, I was focused on business intelligen

(Prashant Shettar, Marion Behnen and Shantanu Mundkur) DB2 Text Search enables an IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows database user to create applications with full-text search capabilities by embedding full-text search clauses in SQL and XQuery statements. In this tutorial, you’ll set up a databas

(Rob Williams) Late in 2007, IBM released two new products onto the market.

(Ray Else) IBM U2 Web DE, U2 Web Development Environment (previously called RedBack), is a Web framework for accessing UniVerse and UniData databases. In this article, examine the history and essential framework of Web DE, and learn how PHP and .NET can reference Web DE RedBack Objects (RBOs) to acc

(Roger Sanders) Which two of the following commands can be used to enable dual logging for a database named SAMPLE?

(Robert Catterall) A little rainy in the morning on this, the second day of the 2008 International DB2 Users Group European Conference, then just some high clouds after that. Following are a few interesting (to me, at least) nuggets of information from my day of technical sessions and hallway conver

(Susan Visser) Come prepared for complimentary exams offered at the IBM Information On Demand 2008 conference, coming to Las Vegas Oct. 26 – 31, with free Information Management certification practice tests. Usually offered through Prometric for a fee, take these tests online for at no charge for tw