(Susan Malaika) The industry bundles for pureXML, published on alphaWorks, illustrate access to content stored on IBM DB2 in XML, through small script or Java™-based applications. They are focused on populating, validating, and querying XML content that is pertinent to a specific industry. A pureXML

(Susan Visser) The Version 9 books are slowly arriving, so now is your chance to pick up any Version 8 books that you may want for 50% off the usual price.

(Willie Favero) It’s Thursday night and I should be home getting ready to pour a glass of red wine (preferably a Cab) and watch some mindless, completely non-educational television. But instead, I’m stuck at some hotel about a mile from Love Field in Dallas. Why you ask? I’m stuck here tonight becau

(Kiran Nair and Saji Kumar) This article provides you with an overview of the new character-based string functions in IBM DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. It first explains key concepts, such as character and byte semantics with respect to string data. Then it discusses why you need these functio

(Fred Sobotka) Yeah, I know…IDUG wrapped up its 2007 conference a while ago, but I took a bit of a vacation afterward, so I’m just starting to dig myself out of the pile of notes, business cards, and action items that I maneuvered my self into back in San Jose. I’m sharing my observations so those

(Craig Mullins) IBM focused their attention on improving DB2’s ability to store and manage LOB data in Version 9. As anyone who has tried to use LOBs in a previous version of DB2 knows, the usability limitations were troublesome. But with Version 9, IBM chips away at some of the more annoying LOB li

(Mohan Saraswatipura, Radhika Gadde and Priyambada Behera) IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) is a fast and scalable database server that manages traditional relational, object-relational, and web-based databases. IDS supports alphanumeric and rich data, such as graphics, multimedia, geospatial, HTML

(Alex Woodie) ProData Computer Services has released a version of its Database Utility (DBU) that can access other relational database management systems in addition to DB2/400. With the new capability, available from ProData as a plug-in called DBU Remote Database (RDB), System i programmers can no

(Beth) As an IBM employee it’s embarrassing to admit I’ve never administered a DB2 database before. I did test one briefly last fall, attempting to load large XML SAP iDocs into DB2 or Oracle (turned out the xml was too large for either engine).

(Rich Seeley) At IBM’s Impact 2007 conference this week, Al Zollar, general manager of IBM Tivoli, stressed the need to automate management to make sure Web services work in an SOA environment. (R)