(Andrew Borts) We welcomed the year 2000 with one thing that people tend to forget about a name for our precious single-level storage beauty of a database: DB2. The database is available on all IBM platforms, and can be installed on many non-IBM platforms as well. The difference between the i5 and

Database and application performance demands have never been higher. These tips and strategies from Roger E. Sanders, Robert Catterall, and Nelson King will help you: –Manage DB2 maintenance without interfering with database performance –Build performance principles into an SOA environment

(David Bowley) The ability to send information from one portlet to another adds considerable flexibility to your portlet applications, in both the way they are designed and in the way they are used. This chapter outlines the numerous ways that you can implement inter-portlet communication using WebS

(Wei Liu) IBM Rational Data Architect (RDA) is gaining momentum as a comprehensive tool that helps organizations promote a thorough understanding of their enterprise information architecture. As more people use RDA, theres an increasing need for some customers to extend RDA to meet their unique data

(Stuart Litel) It’s been eight years since IBM bought the Informix product line. Last issue I wrote that Captain Ambuj Goyal has the ship going in the right direction. He should be commended. So, too, should the leaders of the product lines in IBM Information Management that have seen the Informix l

(Willie Favero) It’s been a few weeks since we had an APAR Friday post. I was flipping through some very recent APARs and noticed a few APARs that are also Hipers that I think some might be interested in reading up on. Remember that almost all APARs have a complete and detailed description of the pr

(Conor O’Mahony) In my previous post, I mentioned the great sessions at the upcoming Information on Demand conference. I thought you might be interested in soem details. Here is a small selection of the session titles and abstracts, as they appear on the conference Web site, and in no particular ord

(Miguel A Ortiz, Jr. and Lee McCallum) The ultimate goal of a Master Data Management (MDM) solution is to be the authoritative source of all important shared data across the enterprise. As such, the security of this information is of utmost concern. There are aspects of security that IBM InfoSphere

(Joe Pluta) And why should I care? For most AS/400 programmers — and users — the integrated database feature is taken for granted. For the world outside of i, it’s likely the most misunderstood. (R)

(Skip Marchesani) The Run SQL Scripts function, a.k.a. the SQL Script Center or Script Center, is System i Navigator’s counterpart to Interactive SQL on the green screen side of the System i. The SQL Script Center allows the user to execute all or a subset of a script that contains one or more SQL s