(Willie Favero) Let’s get the important stuff out of the way immediately; session attendance. Of all the sessions held on Tuesday, the most popular based on the number of individuals that attended each session were: • F6 – Put a Smile on Your DBA’s Face – Performance for the Developer (and You Know

(Willie Favero) IDUG’s second full day is in the books. From an attendee’s point of view, this was a very, very good day for presentations.

(Jarek Miszczyk) In my 20+ years experience in the software development field, I’ve met only a few (lucky) system architects who had the luxury to design new software solutions from scratch. More often, a system architect faces a challenge of integrating existing software components developed in leg

(Martin Packer) Occasioned by some recent enhancements to MXG I thought it high time I talked about a couple of Coupling Facility commands that DB2 Version 8 can take advantage of: (And thanks to Barry Merrill for the MXG information and the sample data I’m using here.)

(Willie Favero) IDUG is off and running with the first full day of technical sessions out of the way. Like most IDUG’s, there’s just too much to do. No matter how carefully I plan what sessions I want to attend, there’s never enough time to make it to all of the sessions I want to attend. It never f

(Mark Leon) Governing data is a little like governing people. Left to themselves, people will devolve into a “state of nature” in which civilization as we know it cannot exist.

(Paul Zikopoulos) In an article called “Rational Data Architect and DB2 9: The Database Explorer,” I introduced you to the IBM Rational Database Architect (Rational DA) Database Explorer view and showed you how to add database connections to it. If you’re not familiar with that process, or you didn’

(Willie Favero) Cute title, right? That’s what we called my latest article in z/Journal Magazine. If you like to take a look at the pre-publication of this article, go here: “Myth-Busting DB2 Version 8 CPU Regression”

(Sami Salkosuo) This article shows you how to get started installing and configuring WebSphere MQ on Linux and developing Java applications for the MQ environment, using sample applications for sending messages to and receiving messages from a queue.

(Leon Katsnelson) Ruby on Rails continues its meteoric rise in popularity. From virtually unknown just two years ago, Ruby has become the language to learn. According to April statistics on TIOBE.com Ruby is not only staying on the top ten programming languages list after getting there earlier this