(Addison Goering) This tutorial covers the key architectural concepts of IBM WebSphere Process Server. Specifically, it explains how WebSphere Process Server extends the underlying WebSphere Application Server architecture. It addresses the important core set of SOA capabilities, supporting services

IBM has introduced a series of quick start software bundles for the DB2 9 data server to meet new standards for handling Extensible Markup Language (XML) data. It will enable clients to adapt to their information management environments.

(Lincoln Roach) This article builds a business process that utilizes IBM WebSphere Portal as its human interaction service. You’ll begin by completing a sub-process as an example of what it takes to break down larger business systems. You will then learn to use the required client artifacts, exporte

(Toni Bollinger and Garcia Bordes M. Eugenia) This tutorial shows you how to generate explanations for business problems by applying Intelligent Miner Modeling to corporate data. It also shows you how to display the results with Intelligent Miner Visualization. (R)

(Susanne Englert, Simon Harris and Holger Kache) IBM WebSphere Federation Server V9.1 introduces several interesting performance enhancements for federated queries. Learn about better nickname statistics, improvements for environments that use ODBC access to remote sources, and the new “asynchronous

(Paul Read and Eva Angelika Billich) Starting in IBM DB2 9, a new memory-tuning feature, self-tuning memory management, simplifies the task of memory configuration by automatically setting values for several memory configuration parameters. When enabled, the memory tuner dynamically distributes avai

(Bonnie Baker) As more and more companies are moving to DB2 for z/OS V8, which became generally available on March 1, 2004 (a significant while ago), I’ve noticed a general reluctance to REBIND after migration. I can only speculate as to the reasoning behind this inertia. It’s true that a rock at re

(Rosmarie Peter) User Defined Functions (UDFs) enable users to write their own functions which can be used in SQL statements. This article describes how this option can be used for DB2 UDB for z/OS and OS/390. The difference between UDFs for DB2 mainframe installations and DB2 in Linux, Unix and th

(Darshan Donni and Neelam V Kulkarni) The Web Administration tool that ships with the directory server is the easiest way to setup and manage your replication topology. In some situations administrators might need to set up replication using the command line Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LD

(Paul Zikopoulos and Deb Jenson) In the third quarter of 2006, IBM software group (SWG) announced a replacement for their processor based pricing and introduced the concept of Processor Value Unit (PVU) pricing. Prior to this announcement, customers simply added up the number of processing cores the