IBM today announced that it has made several advances in the powerful System z(TM) mainframe security architecture that are designed to extend the features of IBM’s security-rich server — historically enjoyed by large enterprises — to a growing base of medium-sized mainframe customers that operate

(John Morrell) Complex Event Processing (CEP) is a new approach for building applications that process and analyze high-speed event streams. Learn how the pureXML capabilities in IBM DB2 work together with the Coral8 engine for high-performance processing of high-speed event streams. This article al

IBM announced that DB2 9 “Viper” data server was named winner of the 2007 Best Database Management Solution at the Software & Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) 22nd Annual CODiE Awards. DB2 9 was one of more than 1,197 nominations this year — the most in the history of the CODiEs.

(Willie Favero) DB2 9 for z/OS is getting very close to giving you the ability to store and manage spatial information in a DB2 mainframe database. Just about every company I can think of probably has a use for spatial data. If you can describe where “something” is and have a need for the piece of i

(Arthur Choi) Learn how you can easily access a freely downloadable search engine, IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition (referred to simply as OmniFind in this article), from your custom applications. OmniFind provides a Representational State Transfer (REST) Web service to expose its search and document pus

(Craig Mullins) Another nice new SQL feature provides the ability to SELECT from DELETE, UPDATE, and MERGE statements.

(Vaibhav Srivastava) BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tool) is an open source relational reporting solution. It provides an Eclipse-based plug-in for report development and testing, and it provides J2EE deployment and API that can be used in custom Java applications. With IBM DB2 Data Warehouse

(Chris Eaton) In my last posting I wrote about how you can use db2cos to dump data automatically when a server fails. But there is more you can do with db2cos. For example, you can instruct DB2 to call the db2cos script when an application gets a specific error code. For example, maybe you want to r

(Curt Monash) I asked Jeff Jones of IBM to explain the various DB2 code lines to me. His answer was so clear that I asked further permission to post it verbatim. Here it is. The main takeaway is that one shouldn’t confuse the shared-everything z/OS (mainframe) version with the more loosely-coupled U

(Willie Favero) Recently on one of the list there was a discussion of what you could do with a zAAP specialty engine, other than process JVM work. In other discussions, questions have come up about zIIP specialty engine only doing DB2 work. Specialty engines are relatively new compared to how long t