(Dhanashri Kudgavkar, Prasanna Alur Mathada and Amitava Chakraborty) IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) is well known for ease of administration. To make server administration more user friendly, a new open source, platform-independent tool called OpenAdmin Tool (OAT) is now available to IDS users Th

(Dafi) Autoextend for DMS tablespacesDMS FILE tablespaces can be created with the option “autoextend”. If required, DB2 automatically increases the size of all containers of the tablespace, provided that there is still space in the file system. You can set existing DMS FILE tablespaces to the “autoe

(Guang Xu, Wei-Dong Zhu, Mike Grasselt, Alan Mayer and Lijing Zhang) In this article, you’ll learn how to customize the IBM Content Manager eClient search results window. By examining some of the customization techniques with sample code, you’ll get a better understanding of what and how you can cus

(Raul Chong, Xiaomei Wang, Michael Dang and Dwaine R. Snow) Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when your application connects to the data server? What handles the request? What actually does the work and returns you the results? When you check your system, you may see many threads

(Robert Catterall) When I first started working with DB2 on the mainframe platform, back in the mid-1980s, plenty of people were still running a version of the operating system called MVS/370. That OS limited the size of an address space to 16 MB, and the amount that a subsystem such as DB2 actually

(Hardeep Singh) This article is the second of a two-part series about the InfoSphere MashupHub, part of the IBM Mashup Center. Part 1 discussed the product architecture and its tools and utilities, and introduced a simple use-case scenario. Now, in Part 2, you’ll explore the tools more deeply and ex

(Michael S. Dougherty) After a decade of growth, global positioning systems (GPS) technology is found just about everywhere. It’s so predominant, in fact, that it’s now a standard built-in feature on many cars, just like CD players and radios.

(Susan Visser) The ITSO constantly produces IBM Redbooks to help you use the many IBM products and technology. Make sure you check often to keep up to date on all their releases: IBM Redbooks for Information Management Software. If you are a technical expert, consider becoming an author of an IBM Re

(Rikki Kirzner) Your boss just pulled you off your current project and asked you to come in on Friday night to help out on another project that has run into trouble. The new customer credit verification web service recently deployed at one of your top tier customers is experiencing random errors. An

(Kent Milligan) We are running a unicode DB2 for JD Edwards. The CCSID is 13488. I am trying to create a view where we convert one of the alpha fields to a numeric field. We have nulls in some of the records,.so I am using SELECT IFNULL(INT (GLSBL),0) AS AB8, to convert the field. However, I am not