(Brian Byrne and Greg Imirzian) This is the first of two articles that identify the nature of business rules and the relationship of these rules to IBM Industry Models. In particular, this article references the deployment stages of the IBM Industry Models during which rules analysis and design shou

(Vikram Khatri) If you are writing embedded SQL application using C/C++ or SQLJ application using Java, you will come across an issue about how to use DB2 PREPARE statement effectively in your application code. When I talk to Oracle or SQL Server DBA, they all seem to have an impression that the dat

(Kate Riley Tennant) Last week one of our business partners, Thunderhead Ltd, announced that they were developing a new component (called Context Engine) for their Thunderhead NOW platform that is based on DB2 pureXML. They say that DB2 pureXML is “an ideal complement” for their product. But DB2 is

(John Feller and Chris C. Gruber) Learn how you can use IBM Mashup Center to retrieve and consolidate the most up-to-date information into a situational application. View an example of data consolidated from several spreadsheets along with some external data sources to see how to create a Sales Mana

(Susan Visser) Do you think that you are ready to pass the certification exam that you’ve been studying for? Try a practice exam to gauge your readiness. Usually offered through Prometric for $10, you can enjoy them for free from October 12 through October 26.

(Kevin Yeung-Kuen See and John P. Kennedy) IBM DB2 9.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows introduced the Administrative Task Scheduler (ATS). Unlike the graphical Task Center, ATS provides a programmable SQL interface and operates without the Database Administration Server (DAS). Using ATS, you can automa

(David Beulke) Incrementally improving a process is one thing. Innovation is another thing all together because it means creating or trying something completely new, whether it be a new business model or a new product idea. DB2 (especially DB2 9) continues to be the innovation leader in the database

(Alex Woodie) Applied Logic’s all-purpose DB2/400 product, File Edit Utility (FEU), learned a few new tricks with the release of version 16 last week. The Keizer, Oregon, company added new capabilities to FEU in the areas of merging files, conversion to XML, and printing as PDF. The product’s main f

(Jeffrey Benner) I am a nomadic worker, and like all nomads I try to find a stable work routine that will not vary when I move between companies. I never expect corporate email, time entry, project management, problem ticket, or documentation software suites to be under my control. Database administ

(Phil Grainger) Each new version of DB2 brings improvements in performance, and DB2 9 is no different. This, the latest in the DB2 9 for z/OS webcast series from CA and IDUG, looks at these improvements in more detail. During the webcast, we will consider utility CPU time reductions, histogram stati