(Gene Cobb) If you use SQL to access your database objects, you may be aware of the SQL Query Engine (SQE) introduced in V5R2. SQE offers algorithms and features that give it distinct performance advantages over its predecessor, the Classic Query Engine (CQE).

(Willie Favero) What do all of the above numbers have in common? Well, if you assume that DB2 for z/OS Version 8 was announced at 8:00 EST on March 26, 2004 and I made this post at about 3:00 PM EST today (Nov 16), then all of those numbers are approximations of how long DB2 V8 has been generally av

(Shweta Sinha) For optimum database backup and restore performance for your IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) database, take advantage of parallelization with the ON-Bar utility. This article introduces ON-Bar, describes the parallel backup and restore sequence, and includes a discussion of configur

(Ellen Tiberi) IBM Workplace Services Express is collaborative software that facilitates communication among team members, allowing them to work together more efficiently to achieve their project and business goals. By accessing the same collaborative portal interface, users can access their applica

(Stephen B Morris) Rolling out increasingly advanced software offerings and the demands of more technically savvy users exacerbate the problem of IT service provision. Simply deploying software, like Apache Derby databases, and hoping for resiliency is no longer sufficient. Management needs to be au

(Matt Roberts, Ben Bakowski and Chris Whyley) This article introduces you to the concepts of WS-Notification and describes how to use it in WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1 to provide an open standards approach to publish and subscribe messaging.

(Sing Li) To create, test, and deploy a Web-based application or Web service rapidly, you need a proven relational database, a standards-compliant Web application server, and a flexible IDE. Ideally, all these software packages are production-tested, simple to obtain, easy to use, and well integrate

(Bhargav Perepa and Carol Serna) The first article in this series develops a business process model using IBM WebSphere Business Modeler. This article develops the model further by demonstrating how to add a business measures model that uses WebSphere Business Monitor to monitor the BPEL workflow ap

(Michael S. Dougherty) Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Rita. These devastating events (just two of 27 named storms and 14 hurricanes in 2005) were a wake up call for the whole United States — and an important reminder of how fragile business operations can be without careful planning.

(Matt Lucas) Previously there were two ways to deploy user-developed resources to the WebSphere Message Broker run time: from the Toolkit or from the command line. The increasing use of Message Broker in the enterprise has created a need for a complex deployment system that spans multiple run times,