(Antonio Cangiano) Ruby on Rails 2.1 has been out for six weeks now. Lets take a closer look at three database related bugs that affect this release.

(Willie Favero) Getting caught up in my own blog posting about DSSIZE last Friday, I fell behind on my blog readings. Thank goodness my RRS feeds retain stuff until I can finally get around to reading it or I may have missed this gem.

(Adam Gartenberg) I was sent a link recently to the DemoZone for Information Management. It’s chock full of all kinds of demos around DB2, IDS, InfoSphere Warehouse, tools, and much, much more.

(Bharath Sriram) The Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) is a PHP-based, open source administration tool, supported on IDS 11.1 and later. In this article, you’ll learn how to migrate from the Informix Server Administrator (ISA) to the OAT. This article also describes how the basic ca

(Rob Williams) Late in 2007, IBM released two new products onto the market. The first was Data Studio, a versatile development and administrative Eclipse plug-in. It provides tools for pureQuery, stored procedure and UDF (User Defined Function) development, Web services, building SQL, pureXML, ad

The International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) is pleased to partner with CA to deliver a free Webcast by renowned presenter Phil Grainger, Sr. Principal Product Manager. This live event will run approximately 60 minutes and participants will have the opportunity to pose questions to the presenter. Capaci

(Wei Zheng, Paul van Run, Tim Thorpe and Kathryn Zeidenstein) If you’ve been curious about the new release of WebSphere Customer Center (now named IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server), then this series is for you! This series describes how and why pureQuery technology was used in the new re

(Robert Catterall) Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a hot concept these days. But it’s more than a concept — many organizations have SOA-based applications in production, and more have such applications in various stages of development.

(Willie Favero) It has recently been pointed out to me that the way I have been describing certain aspects of universal table spaces in DB2 9 could be introducing a bit of confusion into the DB2 user community. Because I have now presented my universal table spaces topic at IDUG and a large number o

(Chuck Ballard, Deepak Rangarao, Jimmy Tang, Philip Wittann, Zach Zakharian, Andy Perkins and Robert Frankus) Formerly known as DB2 Warehouse, InfoSphere Warehouse enables a unified, powerful data warehousing environment. It provides access to structured and unstructured data, as well as operational