(Willie Favero) The cry heard round the world of late has been "How much CPU is DB2 Version 8 going to use?" OK, that may be a little over the top. However, whether you call it CPU consumption, CPU regression, or simply CPU usage, this seems to be a big question on everyone’s mind today. For some, i

(Bikramjit Naha, Brian DeLuca and Tony Efremenko) This article tells you how to use AJAX with IBM WebSphere Portal Version 5.1.3 for Multiplatforms to quickly meet a few of the basic expectations in your portlet applications that users have come to expect from using sophisticated, graphically-based

(Chris Eaton) In v8 IBM shipped a new problem determination tool called db2pd. The tool runs on Linux, UNIX and Windows platforms and can give you diagnostic information very quickly and in a very non intrusive manner. The tool does not take snapshots but instead attaches directly to the DB2 shared

(Mark Taylor) This question and answer article features Mark Taylor, technical strategist for WebSphere MQ, who answers top questions from users about developing applications for, or running systems with, WebSphere MQ (formerly MQSeries) on the distributed (non-z/OS) platforms.

I’ve grown quite fond of the convenience of the DB2 SQL support in QShell, and especially the ease with which it can be invoked within a CL program, by simply calling the underlying Datalink File Manager DB2 program, QZDFMDB2. Having said that, I must also admit to getting burned by a “gotcha” lurki

(Rebecca Bond, Kevin Yeung-Kuen See, Carmen Ka Man Wong and Yuk-Kuen Henry Chan) When thinking about organizational information security, your mind might jump to the technical details such as firewalls, access control lists, certificates, auditing, encryption, and all those well-known electronic tra

(Willie Favero) This one sounds like a winner. It’s a great topic with an excellent speaker. Even if you are not into WebSphere, I think you can still get a ton of information out of this session. And Maryela really knows her stuff!!!

(Ron Turull) SQL (Structured Query Language) stored procedures are a great feature. They provide an excellent tool to help optimize client/server applications. By shifting key portions of the processing onto the server, network data flows can be reduced substantially. All this without bogging down t

(Cheung-Yuk Wu and Marion Behnen) Protect your data warehouse environment using a new, downloadable crash recovery utility. With this tool, perform health checks and recover any inconsistent IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Edition SQL Warehousing runtime metadata caused by unhandled interrupts. After the too

(Willie Favero) Pat Bossman, DB2 for z/OS Query Optimizer Team at IBM’s Silicon Valley Lab (SVL), was nice enough to share with me an internal blog entry he recently wrote on Declared Global Temporary Tables and told me I could in turn share it with you all. So, since I cannot use a link to point yo