(Paul Rogers, Rogerio E. M. Camargo, Gillian Gainsford and Rita Pleus) This release of RACF in z/OS V1.8 continues to deliver industry leadership for security. Improvements that are all intended to help deliver the kind of security-rich environment that has made z/OS an industry leader includes the

(Guenter Sauter, Bill Mathews, Mei Selvage and Ernest Ostic) Business growth forces companies’ IT capabilities to evolve with changing business demands. New applications are introduced to support innovative requirements. Existing information is processed and analyzed in new ways to gain even more in

(Willie Favero) Are you familiar with Common Criteria? Did you know that DB2 for z/OS Version 8 can be Common Criteria compliant? If you know the answers to both of these questions, then you are probably going to be interested in the APAR that just closed the middle of December 2006. If none of this

(Peter Bendel, Toni Bollinger, M. Eugenia Garcia and Stefan Warwas) These tutorials are designed to guide application designers and application developers through the process of gaining insight from data mining analysis to applying it in end user applications. Practical examples show how business

(Burt Vialpando) Discover common tips to assist with the installation and configuration of DB2 Content Manager with Oracle 9i Database Release 2 Enterprise Edition.

(Chris Eaton) Continuing in this series of postings on new administrative views in DB2 9, I’m going to show you a view that lists the top queries in the dynamic SQL cache. The view is called SYSIBMADM.TOP_DYNAMIC_SQL. This view shows you the most frequently executed dynamic SQL statements, how many

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(Philip Norton) Learn how to invoke a Web service with an IBM WebSphere MQ client, using IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and IBM WebSphere Integration Developer. You’ll create an MQ Java client, write a custom WebSphere MQ data binding and custom function selector for WebSphere ESB, and c

In the complex world of global business, every database operation needs to be done very quickly to cope with constant data changes. There are many ways to perform database operations quickly, but most are very complex. Is there anybbody who makes these complex operations simple, to help DBAs get the