(Laura Calley and Kate Dawson) The IBM line of offerings spans across all segments of the IT industry: hardware, software, consulting and IT services. The challenge for the IBM Professional Certification Program is to keep pace with the certification needs across the many professions within all of t

(Jarek Miszczyk) If you were, like me, watching closely the evolution of the JDBC specification, you probably noticed how it morphed from a rudimentary data access object model to a mature, function-rich programming interface. Typically, the Rochester development lab does a pretty good job in provid

(Cynthia D. Sleigh) The IBM Cognos Validation tool was developed using the IBM Cognos 8 and IBM Cognos ReportNet Java SDK to validate reports in the Content Store. Two separate versions are available, one for IBM Cognos 8 and one for IBM Cognos ReportNet. Using this tool, you can automate the proces

(Robert Catterall) Once again, I’ve let more time than usual pass since the last post to my blog, the cause (again) being a period of particular busyness on my part.

If you are a DB2 DBA supporting SAP and your SAP system is BASIS 7.0 SR2 or lower, then you would have a “db2 runtime client” installed locally on each and every SAP application server. This means that you also have a db2 instance and a OS user on each application server.

(Chris C. Gruber and Jim Hsu) IBM Mashup Center is a great means to quickly and easily “mashup” data and services and assemble the information on a Web page. Many sources of enterprise data are made available through the default plug-ins that come with IBM Mashup Center’s InfoSphere MashupHub. Howev

(Kent Milligan) The usage of SQL stored procedures by IBM i applications and programs continues to rise. For quite awhile, applications have had the ability to leverage the performance benefits offered by IBM i service program objects.

(Dhanashri Kudgavkar, Prasanna Alur Mathada and Amitava Chakraborty) Over the years the popularity of Apache Tomcat has picked up, and so has IBM Informix Dynamic Server. Many users are eager to use these two products together, and in fact are trying to combine and integrate them, but face a few iss

(Rajesh Sambandhan and Simon Harris) IBM recently announced Data Studio pureQuery Runtime for z/OS, which enables organizations to take advantage of pureQuery technology natively on their z/OS systems. Previously, pureQuery could access DB2 for z/OS data only from a non-z/OS system, such as Windows

(Willie Favero) Sure, DPSI indexes were introduced way back in DB2 Version 8 (does anyone still remember V8). However, I’ve heard there were a few factors that inhibited some folk from jumping on the DPSI (data-partitioned secondary index) bandwagon. The good news is that some of the characteristics