(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

(Craig Mullins) As regular readers of my blog know, I sometimes use the blog to answer questions I get via e-mail. This is one of those times…

(Paul Zikopoulos) Since the middle of 2006, I’ve been writing about all the great integration features in IBM DB2 9 for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 integrated development environment (IDE) and the accompanying ADO.NET 2.0 API.

(C. M. Saracco) DB2 9 features support for XQuery, an industry-standard language designed expressly for querying XML data. With XQuery and DB2 9 you can retrieve entire XML documents or XML fragments stored in XML columns. You can also specify XML-based filters for queries, transform XML output, and

(Peter Cogill and Shane Weeden) In this article we show you how to enable your ASP.NET applications for federated single sign-on utilizing the Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway (FIM-BG) and the plug-in it provides for Microsoft Internet Information Server Version 6 (IIS). Your exist

(Roger E. Sanders) This tutorial introduces you to the concept of data consistency and to the various mechanisms that are used by DB2 to maintain consistency in both single and multi-user database environments. This is the sixth in a series of seven tutorials to help you prepare for the DB2 9 for Li

(Craig Mullins) The performance of dynamic SQL is one of the most widely debated DB2 issues. Some shops try to avoid it, but in this day and age of ERP/CRM systems, Java/JDBC programming, and web applications, all of which heavily rely on dynamic SQL, its use is becoming more ubiquitous.

(Joe Pluta) The winds of change, and particularly change management, are howling ever louder as the requirements of multiple languages and multiple platforms complicate what was once a relatively simple world.

(Michael Baessler) Get hints and tips about how to use the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) in IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.4. This article targets advanced developers who use UIMA for building applications on top of OmniFind Enteprise Edition. Practice some of the descri

You can use this SQL to generate the SQL statements for truncating the tables in a schema.