(Willie Favero) Yup, IBM has its own internet television station, sort of.. It has a website that gives you access to some professionally done videos; some funny, some serious, but all very informative in there own special way. You really need to stop by and check a few of these videos out at http:/

(Joe Pluta) The default situation for buying an application development tool is when you are building a system from the ground up. Nothing out there suits your business, so you need to write your own from scratch. Hello, Google! Another is when you have to add a new application, one whose featur

(Ulf Mattsson) In increasingly complex technical and business environments, no one security approach can deal with all the new and innovative intrusions. But the lack of a security silver bullet doesn’t mean data security is impossible. It simply means that businesses have to take a multi-pronged ap

(Craig Mullins) DB2 9 for z/OS offers several new SQL improvements focused on improving OLAP functionality. The OLAP functions provide the ability to return ranking, row numbering, and existing aggregate function information as a scalar value in the result of a query. You can include OLAP specificat

(Willie Favero) Yes, I know you have heard all this stuff already about which workloads are eligible to run on a zIIP specialty engine. Although I am going to rehash some of that old news, I do have what I think is a piece of up-to-the-minute zIIP details that you might find mildly interesting, espe

(Philip Monson, Sam Alexander, Lea Medhurst and Christine Miner) WebSphere Dashboard Framework gives application developers the power to create rich graphical interfaces to business data which allow the end user to make key decisons upon that data. WebSphere Dashboard Framework also provides powerfu

(Willie Favero) I have always been troubled by the maintenance strategies some of my friends have chosen for their DB2 for z/OS subsystems. In fact, in some cases, I might almost label their strategies as reckless; they’re just asking for a DB2 problem to occur. I was thinking that maybe I’m not the

(John Chun, Christine Law, Naomi Ngan and Alex Pitigoi) The emergence of the Ruby language, coupled with the powerful Rails framework, provides a myriad of opportunities for Web solutions development. With the introduction of the IBM_DB adapter and driver, Rails applications can now interact seamles

(Willie Favero) Ya, I know… it’s not z/OS… however, even though this webpage’s content is completely DB2 LUW specific, it’s still extremely cool. It contains lots of podcast covering different aspects of DB2 for LUW. It’s also set up as an RSS feed so you can subscribe to the page and get notified w

(Manjula Panthagani and Sergio R. Eng) Learn to monitor database server activity for IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). Examine various tools to monitor, diagnose problems, and manipulate IDS data. The second in a series of eight tutorials, use this tutorial to help prepare for the IDS 11 exam 918.