(Troy Coleman) A large percentage of business is run with online applications. When you go to the grocery store and make a purchase or go to an ATM to withdraw money, you’re using an online application. These applications are designed to complete a transaction in seconds. Once you withdraw money or

(Chuck Ballard, Joseph Baric, Ajay Gupta, Holger Kirstein, Rajesh Naicken and Nilesh Ozarkar) In this IBM Redbooks publication, we provide an overview of the high availability and enterprise replication features of the Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) Version 11, which can simplify and automate enterpr

(Martin Klumpp) Learn how to create a custom combinable operator in a IBM WebSphere DataStage environment that can read input records from input datasets, process the data, and output the records. This tutorial gives you an overview of the combinable operator concept. You will learn how to develop a

(Paolo Bruni, Tom Hubbard, Rajasekhar Jonnagadla, Ravikumar Kalyanasundaram and Hennie Mynhardt) IBM DB2 Recovery Expert manages the recovery of DB2 for z/OS V8 and V9 objects in a data sharing and non-data sharing environment. (pdf)

(Muhammad Zulfiqar) Download a Java sample that gives you a way to rename Cognos PowerPlay Enterprise Server views and reports so that they are the same as they appear in Cognos Upfront. This article gives you step-by-step instructions for implementing this code sample.

(Kathy Zeidenstein and Bill Bireley) The IBM Data Studio family made its debut in 2007, with the goal of increasing organizational productivity and effectiveness while improving the quality of service, cost of ownership, and governance of diverse data, databases, and data-driven applications.

(Chris Eaton) Watch Chris install DB2 Express-C without touching the keyboard or mouse. This is just a sample of the kind of video you can make for the IDUG Video Competition.

(Shakil Choudhury) Database Administrators sometimes may need to restore a portion of their databases from Production to a Test environment for various reasons, ( testing etc ). They need to restore a small portion of their Production database because the Production database is too big to restore in

(Robert Catterall) I received the other day a very interesting e-mail from Vijay Sitaram, a friend of mine who is a DB2 DBA (or not — more on this later) at an organization that operates (no pun intended) in the health-care industry. Vijay’s note contained some illuminating insights regarding the r

(vinoth) You have a column that is defined to hold character data. Unfortunately, the rows contain mixed numeric and character data.