(Willie Favero) Today’s Friday APARs are arriving on Sunday. I would like to day I had all of these terrific reasons, being so busy and all, but nope.. just forgot to post Friday…

(Shweta Sinha, Prasanna Alur Mathada and Amitava Chakraborty) IBM Data Studio brings Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) developers the latest in Web services technology. Learn how this new set of tools makes it easy to design, develop, deploy, and manage your IDS applications. Get started with Web servic

(Sheryl M. Larsen) This is a 60 minute review of all access paths that can be chosen by the DB2 9 for z/OS optimizer. Access paths will be shown in animated detail while discussing when the optimizer prefers each access path and how to encourage or discourage each. Come see the newly enhanced Nested

(Robert Catterall) Last week, I delivered a presentation on DB2 “ultra-availability” at a meeting of SIRDUG, the DB2 regional user group (RUG) in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. One of the things that I really like about presenting at RUG meetings is hearing what other presenters on the agenda have

(Jeff J. Li) The SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (SAP BI) is an integral part of the SAP NetWeaver 2004s application server. Designing extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs to load data into and extract data from SAP BI is often a time-consuming task. This article provides a step-by-step guide

(Whei-Jen Chen, Bill Comeau, H T Morgan, Larry Pay, Marcia Miskimen, S Sadish Kumar, Tapio Väättänen and Tomoko Ichikawa) DB2 Workload Manager (WLM) introduces a significant evolution in the capabilities available to database administrators for controlling and monitoring executing work within DB

(Akhilesh K. Tiwary and Thamizhchelvan A. Anbalagan) Explore a powerful new feature of IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) called “named parameters in a CallableStatement,” which enables you to identify a parameter using its name instead of its ordinal position. This feature thus extends the capabilit

(Willie Favero) A friend dropped me an e-mail the other day, right after I posted about down level page detection, suggesting that I say something about DSN1CHKR. I thought that was a great idea. At one point in time, this was one of my favorite stand-alone utilities. At that same pointing time, I w

(Susan Visser) This new book needs to be on your desk if you’re a DB2 developer or database administrator facing the task of implementing DB2 9. In it, recognized DB2 guru and top consultant Philip Gunning shows how we have integrated native XML into the DB2 engine and gives developers and DBAs a de

(Grant Hutchison) An excellent new result confirming that for Java workloads DB2 and WebSphere Application Servers on AIX result in high-performance application infrastructure.