(Carla Kleoppel) This article describes the Web Feature Service provided with IBM Informix Dynamic Server and shows you how to setup and use the built-in blade and its server-side UDRs, wfsregister(), wfsunregister(), and wfsexplode().

(Roger E. Sanders) Recently, I worked with several other subject matter experts to develop a new certification exam for DB2 Version 9.5 ” Exam 735. Those who take and pass this exam (and its prerequisite, Exam 730 DB2 9 Fundamentals) earn the title IBM Certified Solutions Developer – DB2 9.5 SQL Pr

(Susan Visser) If you are attending the IOD conference at the end of the month, consider maximizing your learning experiences by taking one of the pre-conference classes that are available. There is an extra fee, but well worth the money given the quality of the classes and the speakers.

(Radhesh Kumar) Recently I worked with an organization having hundreds of DB2 databases and still a uniform and consistent naming convention across all these databases. Naming convention started from Server Name, Instance Name and Database Name itself. Just by looking at an Instance Name, you can te

(Willie Favero) My article in the August/September issue of z/Journal Magazine just became available on their website. Prior to today, you could only get to it in the hardcopy version of the magazine. But not anymore. So, if you have a little bit of technical reading time that you can still allocate

(Troy Coleman) Blogging about new DB2 features is exciting, but it can also be trying. For instance, I recently started writing a COBOL program that processes XML data. While I look forward to sharing that experience with you, I’ve concluded I need a little more time working on it before I’m ready t

(Marina Greenstein) In this tutorial, learn about IBM DB2 9.5 SQL Procedural Language, including a variable, condition, and handler declaration, flow of control and iterative statements, as well as an error-handling mechanism. This is the first in a series of six tutorials you can use to help prepar

(Willie Favero) DB2 9 for z/OS has released three (3) updated product manuals this month (September 2008).

(Sandeep Singh) IBM Content Analyzer Rule Editor provides a rich user interface to enable you to make semantic rules in a simple manner and execute them to find patterns and trends hidden in large quantities of unstructured information. In this article, get an overview of text analytics with IBM Con

(Robert Catterall) Despite the reference to the 1996 Spike Lee movie, the bus in this column isn’t the kind with wheels; rather, it’s a piece of middleware formally known as an enterprise service bus (ESB). Over the past couple of years I’ve gone from being an ESB skeptic to what you might call an E