(Willie Favero) Back in September I pointed out that the “DB2 for z/OS and OS/390 – Product Lifecycle” web page had been updated with a somewhat innocuous “1st Quarter 2007” date and an asterisk signifying that this was just a “projected” date for DB2 Version 7 End of Marketing (EoM). Well, that we

(Olusola Omosaiye and Charlene Frazier) This article shows how content architects can coordinate the publishing or transfer of all portal content artifacts from a staging or development environment to a production server. Portal content artifacts include those stored in IBM Workplace Web Content Man

(Amy Chang, Simon Harris and Frankie Sun) A federated system is a distributed database management system that enables users to access data in a diverse data source environment, as if all data resides in a single database. A federated transaction is a transaction that includes read or write access to

(Chris Eaton) Here is an interesting success story of a business partner that replaced MySQL with DB2 9 Express-C and saved a lot of money doing it.

(Mark Baldridge) In this installment of the UniVerse performance series, continue the investigation of UniVerse file performance, examining the inner workings of dynamic linear hash files. Explore the challenges of setting an appropriate separation, once you choose one. (R)

(Nelson King) If I were asked to name the best feature of IBM Rational Data Architect (RDA), I’d have to say it’s the product’s versatility. Sure, the ease of creating federated data sources and the slick Eclipse-based Workbench are terrific high-level features, but they’re only contributors to RDA’

(Willie Favero) Sometimes you get KEEPDYNAIMC YES whether you want it or not.

(Shiva Mohan and David X. Yuan) This first article is a 5-part article series that introduces an overview of steps necessary to migrate a business process from WebSphere Commerce into the service-oriented architecture (SOA) life cycle model using SOA foundation tools. The series is published as part

(Paul Zikopoulos) Information management software is at the core of enterprise computing. Companies need access to a wide range of information such as XML, message queues, documents, streaming video, and other rich media types. The On Demand evolution makes continuous availability a necessity and is

(Ian D. M. Hakes) Explore PHP and XML development using the Eclipse IDE, Express-C 9, and Websphere Application Server Community Edition. Learn how to configure these applications, part of a program designed to kick-start your application development, to develop a Web-based movie information databas