(Amit T. Talekar and Bradley Rumph) This article highlights the key features in WebSphere Business Modeler Publishing Server and demonstrates how to use it to publish and review models. The article discusses the integration of WebSphere Business Modeler 6.0.1 and WebSphere Business Modeler Publishin

(Hannah Smalltree) Big Blue’s not buying a business intelligence vendor, for now anyway. (R)

(Kevin Yeung-Kuen See and Yung Chung) Security plug-ins bring new versatility to your database security setup in IBM DB2 9. Read this article to determine what should be tested before deploying your own customized security plug-ins. Accompanying this article, there is a security plug-in loader progr

(David Medinets) Continue on your mission to make your resources service-oriented architecture (SOA)-friendly. Part 1 of this three-part tutorial series showed you how to use WS-Resources to refer to Apache Derby data and structures from within the inherently stateless environment of Web services. E

(Wayne Kernochan) As a result of recent “specialty processors,” such as zIIP, zAAP, and zIFL, the mainframe has shown itself capable of handling new transaction mixes and workloads. Moreover, Linux support and support for service oriented architecture (SOA) ensures that most applications traditional

(Cynthia Harvey) Where did we come from? How did we get here? Although most scientists agree that the human race probably started in Africa more than 50,000 years ago, the answer to the second question is much less clear. How did that original population of a few thousand humans in a central locatio

(Bob Patten, Subhash Kumar and Stuart C. Jones) This article describes the use of WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (hereafter called Registry and Repository) in an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) environment, using the WebSphere Message Broker (hereafter called Message Broker) as the ESB imple

(Eric Roch) IBM’s strategy for data integration based on the Ascential, Venetica, Unicorn and CrossAccess acquisitions will soon come to fruition. These products will support SOA in the role of providing information as a service as well as SOA metadata and semantics.

(Alex Osuna, Jawahar Lal and Roger Sanders) This IBM Redpaper describes how the N series Snapshot and SnapRestore technologies can be used to back up and restore an IBM DB2 UDB database. Specifically, this report covers: – The key advantages of the NetApp Snapshot technology – The infrastructur

The optimizer uses various methods to select an optimal join strategy for a query. Among these methods are the following search strategies, which are determined by the optimization class of the query.