(Willie Favero) I know this is really off topic. However, what is going on could eventually have an effect on you. Some of the stuff going on could be good, might be interesting, and is absolutely different.

(Troy Coleman) This is the final installment of a three-part series. Initially I presented a fast way of finding the different DB2 system parameter changes. Last week I went into detail on parameters that are more application development-related. Here I cover changes that have an impact on the DB2 s

(Grant Hutchison) Please ensure that if you plan to use Data Studio to debug stored procedures on a DB2 v8.2 AIX server that the server has Fixpack 15 applied. If you are using an earlier fixpack level on the server you plan to debug the server could be impacted during the debug session.

(Rich Seeley) Like the COBOL programmers who coded their original applications decades ago, mainframes are showing their age but still do useful tasks in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). (R)

(Paul Zikopoulos) So far in this series about the IBM Data Studio integrated development environment (IDE) that’s available with DB2 Version 9.5 (DB2 9.5), I’ve shown you how to set up database connection objects and the actions that you can perform on them. In addition, I introduced you (in Part 2)

(Willie Favero) This is the first new version of DB2 delivered since its initial release. It was announced in April, 1988 and went generally available (GA) in September, 1988.

(Ajay Wanchoo) Learn how to implement IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition as a search engine with IBM WebSphere Portal. This tutorial introduces the two products, describes the advantages of using them together, and details how to integrate them. You’ll examine the architecture, see how to install the p

(Robert Catterall) My introduction to the idea of a logical data structure came back in 1982, during my first year out of college (Rice U in Houston) and my first year as an IBM employee (first of my 17 years with Big Blue). I was training to become an IBM Systems Engineer (field technical support p

(Ravikiran Durbha) From regular to random expressions! or maybe I should say psuedo-random.

(Naresh Chainani) This article explains the new DECFLOAT data type in IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. DECFLOAT is compliant with the industry standard IEEE754r specification. By leveraging hardware support, DECFLOAT provides applications with a performance advantage over using the DECIMAL data