(Willie Favero) I had the opportunity today to present Pat Bossman’s (IBM SVL Optimizer) presentation on Visual Explain Version 8 to the Austin DB2 User Group (HOTDUG). Pat has a great tip in his presentation describing how to get the information necessary to setup your connection from Visual Explai

(Nicholas Chase) Web 2.0 is still one of the computer industry’s hottest buzzwords, despite widespread disagreement as to what the term actually means. This month, The Geronimo renegade cuts through the hype and looks at the Apache Geronimo project as both an enabler of Web 2.0 applications and as a

(Eric Herber) This is the second part of a two-part article talking about locking mechanisms in IBM’s strategic data server, Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). IDS is an optimal choice for high-end online transaction processing (OLTP) and embedded solutions. This article helps you to understand locking

(Jim Utsler) Emulation-screen apps are “so yesterday,” to use the parlance of my youngest son. Sure, they still have their place – especially for internal company use. They’re sometimes faster to navigate, with long-time users, guided by years of habit, simply tabbing and entering information. No mu

(Chris Eaton) In DB2 9 there is a new administrative view called SYSIBMADM.ADMINTABINFO that can provide you with an easy way to find some useful information about your tables. For example you can easily see the size of the table object, the size of indexes on that table, the size of any LONG or LOB

(Rob Breeds, Kevin Marsh, Dave Seager, Martin Smithson and Philip Taunton) This article series describes the concepts and architecture of the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository user interface. As you’ll recall, Part 1 of this series described the concepts and architecture of the Service Regis

(Mark Troester) The capabilities and advantages of using the Microsoft .NET Framework are undeniable. It provides the ability to rapidly build, deploy, manage, and use connected, security-enhanced solutions with Web Services, enabling businesses to integrate their systems more rapidly and agilely an

(Willie Favero) Time could be running out on your z/OS operating system.

(Hemant Bhatia and Nicholas Geib) January is a time of celebrating change, and there has been much change in the IBM Migration Toolkit (MTK) that deserves celebration, too! The latest release of IBM’s free migration toolkit, MTK 1.4.9, includes many new features that make migrating to your favorite

(Double Xia) PHP is one of the most popular languages for Web applications, and now you can use it to access your U2 data. In part 1 of this series, you learned how to create a PHP Data Objects driver for U2. Now, learn how to put the driver you’ve created to use in a PHP application.