(Susan Visser) Don’t miss your chance to be a part of IDUG 2008 – Europe, 13-17 October, in Warsaw, Poland which will provide you the most up-to-date information on major issues taking place in the DB2 industry.

(Willie Favero) Please excuse the advertisement for the upcoming meeting of our local user group here in Houston. I want to use every method at my disposal to get the word out the DB2 community in the Houston area.

(Adam Gartenberg) My colleagues in the education and certification group have passed along some opportunities for saving, testing, networking (and getting a cool little gadget for free, to boot.) Read on for all of the opportunities.

(Willie Favero) Believe it or not, DB2 is now into “social networking” with the ChannelDB2 web site. ChannelDB2 is a DB2 community (all flavors of DB2 and all things DB2) featuring content such as DB2 related videos, podcasts, blogs, photos, resources, etc… for Linux, UNIX, Windows, System z, and

(Joey Bernal) Good application architecture starts with good standards. This chapter covers standards and how to set the right ones for your organization or project and offers some recommendations and ideas for you to build upon with your own standards documentation.

(Troy Coleman) As its name implies, the UNLOAD utility is used to unload data from one or multiple source objects (either DB2 table spaces or DB2 image copy data sets). UNLOAD is a robust utility with many features, including the capability to unload entire rows from a table space or specific partit

(Steve Brodsky) IBM recently announced WebSphere Application Server V7 . Its a release with lots of great features. I want to bring one new feature in particular to your attention in case you don’t catch it in the high level announcement material.

(Jean Georges Perrin) When I started working with it 14 years ago, the Web was a static entity. Involving a database was tough, mainly because you couldn’t keep a database connection open when a user clicked on a link to another page.

(Sean Michael Kerner) Applications begin with developers, so it makes sense that security should start with them as well. At least, that’s the thinking at IBM, which is taking the wraps off its new AppScan Developer Edition security, built on technology that IBM acquired when it bought application s

(Guogen (Gene) Zhang) On this past Monday and Tuesday, I attended the first DB2 9 for z/OS pureXML Proof of Technology (PoT) event in St. Louis, organized by Paul Bartak, one of our Senior Executive IT Specialists in the field, at the IBM Customer Briefing Center facility near St. Louis Internationa