(Conor O’Mahony) IBMs Information on Demand conference is being held during the last week of October in Las Vegas. This conference covers all aspects of information management, which of course is much broader than the management of XML data.

(Vikram Khatri) Say, you want to concatenate all rows of a column and show it as a single row in the same fashion aggregate function works.

(Troy Coleman) I recently attended the IBM Mashup Center and Data Studio roadshow. Until this event I didn’t really understand what the fuss was about, but now I can see how Mashup will change how companies’ IT and business operations interact.

(Iqbal) For those of you using Linux on the Itanium-64 bit (IA64) platform, note that DB2 9.5 is not available for Linux on IA64. The last supported DB2 version for Linux on IA64 is DB2 9. This is because Linux on IA64 is not a high growth platform for IBM and in fact quite the opposite. Customers a

(Veronica Gomes) The IBM Informix Web DataBlade module is a collection of tools and functions with components installed in both the Informix database server and the third-party Web server to ease development of intelligent, interactive, and dynamic Web-enabled Informix database applications. In this

(Conor O’Mahony) A quick note to let you know about a couple of online communities for DB2 pureXML:

(Ronald C. Leung) Defects management often requires multiple software products. In this article, learn how to use the IBM Mashup Center, where data can be easily integrated from distinct data sources. Analysis of integrated data provides deeper insight on defect and project status than otherwise pos

(Chris Gruber and Paul Zikopoulos) At some point in your life, you may have been lucky enough to find a local diner that offers “mash,” that tasty side dish composed of a bunch of stuff from perhaps unrelated meals (likely what’s left over from the previous day but let’s get past that part). The be

(Craig S. Mullins) Todays column will focus on some of the data format stuff that changes with DB2 9 for z/OS. I know that stuff isnt really a very targeted technical term, but it nicely fits what Ill be addressing here.

(Guang Xu, Wei-Dong Zhu, Mike Grasselt, Alan Mayer and Lijing Zhang) Integrate eClient with an existing application. Specifically, enable any application that has the capability of launching a Web browser to launch eClient, log on to II4C, and display search results for search criteria specified in