(Timothy Prickett Morgan) Having divulged its plans for the improvement of its three key operating system platforms for the mainframe, IBM this week completed the hat trick by getting the “Viper” edition of its database management system, sold as DB2 9.1, up and running on its mainframes. Like the V

(Daniel Hebert) This tutorial takes you through the process of setting up the Perl Database Interface (DBI) to work with the IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). See examples of how to exercise a variety of DBI features and learn how to configure CPAN module installation, driver installation, script a

(Nagraj Alur, Mario Deschatelets, Ashish Jain, Sreeram Potukuchi, Wojciech Radzikowski and Filip Zawadiak) This redbook will help you to exploit IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition Version 8.4’s new and powerful search capabilities in intranets, extranets and corporate portals. The new single signon and

(Willie Favero) What’s the deal? You have a DB2 license so you should have the license materials, right? Well, actually you do have the license doc, you just don’t have up to date documentation. It seems that getting the current documentation has turned into a real challenge. The lab realizes your f

(Peter He) Learn about writing .NET applications that interface with IBM DB2. Get an introduction to the ADO.NET object model and see how to execute SQL statements with ADO.NET. This is the sixth in a series of nine tutorials that you can use to help prepare for the IBM DB2 9 Family Application Deve

(Anil Varkhedi, Thomas Atwood and Tom Wabinski) Follow an end-to-end data replication scenario from native Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) files to IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) for z/OS using IBM WebSphere Classic Replication Server for z/OS, IBM WebSphere Replication Server for z/OS, a

(Willie Favero) First we have an extremely well attended DB2 User Group meeting. Now IBM is offering a free one day mainframe seminar that is including Houston as one of the cities they will be stopping at.

(Ted J. Wasserman) This tutorial explores the advanced programming skills needed to write applications that interact with DB2 9. Topics include user-defined types (UDTs), data type casting, parameter markers, compound SQL, triggers, distributed units of work, federated databases, and concurrency con

(James Niccolai) IBM hopes to bring business intelligence (BI) to a wider audience of midmarket customers with a new software stack developed in partnership with Business Objects, industry sources said.

(Willie Favero) This post is for those customers using “software usage based pricing” and getting ready to move to V8 or have moved to V8. If you are not using “software usage based pricing” or you have no idea what it is, then you can skip today’s post.