(Martin Gale) Micro broker, a new feature in IBM Lotus Expeditor V6.1, provides connectivity services beyond enterprise servers to mobile and pervasive devices. Learn about Lotus Expeditor micro broker and how you can enable true end-to-end integration in a Service-Oriented Architecture.

(Craig Mullins) If you’ve worked with DB2 for awhile, especially as a DBA, you’ve probably heard the advice to re-arrange the columns of your tables to optimize logging efficiency. Basically, the more data that DB2 has to log, the more overhead your programs will incur, and performance will degrade.

IBM announced that the City of Los Angeles has selected the DB2 9 Viper data server to replace its existing database management system.

(Willie Favero) If your answer is no, then I have to ask why not? How often do you reorganize your production table spaces? I’m guessing fairly often. So, what can be more “production” than your DB2 catalog? Sure, you don’t have to REORG your catalog as frequently as you might reorganize your user t

(Thomas M. Stockwell) Last April, IBM and MySQL AB announced an agreement to port the open-source database called MySQL to the IBM System i platform. This announcement was made at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2007, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center just days before COMMON in Anaheim.

(Willie Favero) While you’re reading today’s post, hum the theme song from the movie "Ghostbusters".

(Marc Grosse and Xiaomei Wang) IBM OmniFind Discovery Edition integration with WebSphere Commerce enables you to easily add advanced search and navigation to your WebSphere Commerce store, thereby helping to reduce site abandonment and increasing online conversion. This article provides step-by-step

(Deen Murad) Part 6 in a series of eight tutorials to help you prepare for the IDS 11 exam 918 explores IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) database backup and restore concepts and strategies. It also discusses utilities and commands for managing your database backup and restore processes. (R)

(Omer Brandis) In this post I’ll review the new performance monitoring tool from IBM called “Optimization Service Center for DB2 on z/os”. I’ll also try to compare it to SAP’s performance monitoring tool (the CCMS for DB2 on Z/OS). I do hope that this will help both development teams to further impr

(Craig Mullins) DB2 9 for z/OS introduces a new type of trigger: the INSTEAD OF trigger. The primary usage of INSTEAD OF triggers is to enable views that would not otherwise be updatable to support updates. Typically, a view that consists of multiple base tables cannot be updated. But with an INSTEA