(Alex Louwe Kooijmans, Tony Cox, Ruud Huisman, Magdalena Matysiewicz, Koelli Mungee, Brian Paskin, Martina Scmidt, Thomas Schulze and Brian Paskin) Implementing a WebSphere Application Server environment on z/OS and deploying applications to it in a manner that delivers the best performance is not a

(Paul Zikopoulos) In this article, I want to show you how you can create a very slick cross tab report using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 to generate a report from an IBM DB2 9 data server.

(Deepak Vohra) PHP is a scripting language commonly used in developing Web applications. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) is a Web technique that combines JavaScript, Document Object Model (DOM), and XMLHttpRequest technologies to provide dynamic interactions between a client and a server. Var

(Dan Burger) Not everyone believes that continuing education and training is necessary or that it provides a return on investment to businesses that emphasize it with their IT staff. That’s an unfortunate reality in today’s workplace that is more prominent today than it was 10 or 20 years ago. At th

(Bertrand Dufrasne, Bruce Allworth, Agung Indrayana, Christian Schoessler and Brian Youngs) This IBM Redbook represents a compilation of best practices for deploying and configuring DS4000 Storage Servers. Setting up a DS4000 Storage Server can be a complex task. There is no single configuration tha

(Suma C Shastry, Mohan Kumar and Prasad Srinivasachar) Database technology is a constantly growing field of knowledge. Leveraging your current knowledge on one product and applying it to another similar product is one way to keep up with the constant change. This article demonstrates how you can lev

(Cui Jun Tao) IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway enables B2B process integration and data sharing between partners of all types and sizes. While WebSphere Partner Gateway provides a powerful run-time environment to handle documents between business partners, but it has some limitations, such as data acce

(Willie Favero) I know Wednesday’s post CPU Regression post (1/24/2007) was a bit long. However, even at its somewhat excessive length for a blog, it didn’t cover near everything there is to say about CPU cost in V8. So, over the next week or so I will be making a few more short posts in an attempt

(Scott L. Forstie) Understanding and implementing the best SQL query optimization goal can improve many queries’ response time greatly. IBM DB2 for i5/OS on V5R4 delivers a new way to control query optimization through several popular dynamic SQL interfaces. This article shows how to implement the n

(Hernando Bedoya, Jaime Gaug, James Kerl, Ser Ser NG and Jose Cardoso dos Santos) The goal of database performance tuning is to minimize the response time of your queries. It is also to optimize your server’s resources by minimizing network traffic, disk I/O, and CPU time. (pdf)