(Nagraj Alur, Alok Kumar Jha, Barry Rosen and Torben Skov) IBM WebSphere QualityStage provides data cleansing capabilities to help ensure quality and consistency by standardizing, validating, matching, and merging information to create comprehensive and authoritative information for multiple uses.

(Willie Favero) Today is Independence Day (4th of July as some now always call it) here in the US. While I’m waiting for the pork steaks to finish cooking on the grill (my St Louis friends will understand), I thought I would do today’s blog entry on something almost meaningless; something goofy that

(Wei Zheng, Paul van Run and Kathy Zeidenstein) If you’ve been curious or confused 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 rele

(Stuart Litel) I recently attended an NBA game with a friend who has used Informix for almost as long as I have. He asked me, “Can you believe where we’ve been the last few years with IBM?” I replied, “We’ve been to hell and back.” The operative word here is “back.”

(Charles Babcock) Saturday June 7 was the 25th anniversary of DB2. Ingres and Oracle preceded it as commercial products by a narrow margin, but the launch of DB2 on June 7, 1983, marked the birth of relational database as a cornerstone for the enterprise.

(Raul F. Chong, Michael Dang, Dwaine Snow and Xiaomei Wang) This chapter introduced DB2 and its history, discusses the types of clients and servers available with DB2, and covers the types of clients and servers available with DB2.

(Robert Catterall) Like many a veteran IT person, I knew a lot about DB2 for z/OS before I ever touched DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2 for LUW was several years from existence when I started working with DB2 for the mainframe platform in 1986). By the late 1990s, DB2 was getting to be pretty

(Madison Pruet, Nagaraju Inturi and Nicholas Geib) IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) has long been a database with powerful replication technologies. Enterprise Replication (ER) and High-Availability Data Replication (HDR) have been faithfully serving customers for years. Recent versions of IDS, 11.

(Whei-Jen Chen, Ivo Rytir, Paul Read and Rafat Odeh) In this IBM Redbooks publication we discuss the existing and new DB2 security features introduced in DB2 9.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. These enriched DB2 security features provide you with the capability to protect your data and comply with re

(Willie Favero) Yup, if you like having the latest and great stuff around, here are two more things you should be looking to download. A couple of the product manuals (product documentation) has been updated. Both of the following product publications were released in June 2008.