(Philip Howard) Readers may recall that I have been somewhat critical about IBM’s marketing of MDM in the past, because I thought its message around multiform MDM was too restrictive, in that it focused only on the need to support multiple data domains and the need to address multiple business issue

(Si Ri Lin and Steve Shewchuk) IBM Lotus Forms allows you to create and deliver XML forms applications. As one of its components, it provides a common, open application programming Interface (API). Using this API, you can integrate electronic forms data with server-side applications as well as acces

(Heather Havenstein) IBM rolled out a suite of performance management software designed to ensure that business intelligence applications that support critical company operations like call center support perform adequately.

(Arun Radhakrishnan) Researchers at Core Security Technologies discovered a rare bug in IBM’s Lotus Notes Software that allows attackers to run malicious software on users’ PCs.

(Craig Mullins) Welcome back to my blog as I continue our examination of the new features of DB2 9 for z/OS. Today we will look at the new UPDATE SCHEMA capability of the CATMAINT utility.

(Chris Eaton) In previous postings I mentioned that there were simplifications to the restore and rollforward commands (including the RECOVER command) that helped to make recovery simpler in DPF. Now in DB2 9.5, IBM has added simplification to the BACKUP process for DPF customers.

(Scott Hayes) Another DB2 magazine blog reader, Geoff, read the recent post “DB2 LUW Performance: Asked and Answered (BPLRTX)” and inquired about the optimum setting for NUMBLOCKPAGES. Let’s take a closer look…

(Troy Coleman) I remember when using isolation level UR in online CICS transactions seemed crazy. It turns out using it does make sense sometimes. I’m sure the same can be said about the new SKIP LOCKED DATA select feature. The good news that is this feature is safer than the with UR option in onlin

(Lawrence Dietz) Vormetric, Inc. announced that it has partnered with IBM to deliver database encryption capabilities for DB2 on Windows, Linux, and UNIX. IBM will offer Vormetric’s data security solution as part of its data server portfolio, addressing customer demand for increased protection of se

(Chris Eaton) In a previous posting from late last month I talked about the new automatic compression capabilities in DB2 9.5 as well as the compression for in-lined XML. There are two other compression enhancements that you should be aware of in DB2 9.5.