(Willie Favero) A few weeks ago I did a couple of post about the new z10 server (latest mainframe) and z/OS preview. Well, if you are lucky enough to live near one of the following 14 cities (Austin TX, Boston MA, Cincinnati OH, Dallas TX, Los Angeles CA, Louisville KY, Milwaukee WI, Montreal OC, Om

(Vaibhav Srivastava) The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool (BIRT) is an open source, relational reporting solution. It provides an Eclipse-based plug-in for report development and testing, and it provides J2EE deployment and API that can be used in custom Java applications. With IBM DB2 Data

(Ron Ben-Natan and Doron Sherman) In my previous article (WSDJ, Vol. 1, issue 7), I gave you a glimpse of the Web Services Object Runtime Framework (WORF), a set of tools for implementing Web services with DB2 and WebSphere. WORF is deployed on WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and uses Apache SOAP

(Alan Marwick) While there are several different ways for a user to specify metadata conditions, this article discusses one that has special advantages: faceted navigation. Follow the faceted navigation system described in this article, a technology demonstrator based on IBM Omnifind Discovery Editi

(Stuart Litel) Welcome to 2008, which looks to be another great year for Informix. I’ve often said that I never saw a customer leave Informix for technical reasons, and I still stand by that claim.

(Radhesh Kumar) As technology evolves, all servers (including database servers) are becoming ever more powerful. More and more applications are hosted on a single database server. Some applications are critical and some have lower priority. Also, users with different profiles need to access data fro

(Willie Favero) I’ve been mixing it up every week with a little DB2 9 and a little DB2 V8. However, this week I have a couple APARs that are strictly for V8 that might be of interest to you.

(Rachel Shen and Ankur Upadhyaya) These coding conventions for Extended Structured Query Language (ESQL) will help you develop ESQL code that is easy to understand and maintain. This article is for developers using ESQL to implement message flow applications for deployment on WebSphere Message Broke

(Ron Ben-Natan and Doron Sherman) I’ve been involved with Web services for more than a year now. After the initial fascination and learning curve that are part of any new technology comes the part where you roll up your sleeves and start applying it for the sake of solving real problems or making ar

(Willie Favero) At SHARE last week there were a couple of DB2 9 for z/OS topics and all had a lot of interest. In fact, when the audience was asked what release they were on, everyone was on Version 8, all were positioned to upgrade to DB2 9. So it got me wondering if there are any features of parti