(Willie Favero) ZIIPing and zAAPing away. While that’s a cute opening for this article, it introduces a serious topic. IBM has shown a solid commitment to lowering the cost of running your business on System z. Your potential to increase your processing capacity without increasing your software co

(Matthias Nicola) DB2 9 introduces pureXML support, which means that XML data is stored and queried in its inherent hierarchical format. To query XML data, DB2 offers two languages, SQL/XML and XQuery. Additionally, DB2 9 has sophisticated XML indexing capabilities and support for XML Schema validat

To select data sets from the table space level, type 2 on the Specify Dataset Selection Type input line and press Enter. The Specify Tablespace Selection window appears.

(Rufus Credle, Tony Chen, Asish Kumar, James Walton and Paul Winters) This IBM Redbook is part of the WebSphere V6.1 series; it focuses on security and security-related topics and provides technical details to design and implement secure solutions with WebSphere. This book provides IT Architects, IT

(Halit (Hal) M. Maner and Jean Georges Perrin) Learn how to write server side Java code in the form of a User Defined Routine (UDR), running inside the Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). Also, learn how to set up your project using modern tools such as Eclipse. (R)

The DB2 Symposium is a multi-day training event. You have a daily choice of three full-day, in-depth seminars. All sessions are done by the best quality trainers in the DB2 market. You can join us for one, two, or three days. You only pay for what you find interesting! No waste of time or money. If

(Victor Chang, Yun Han Lee and Nailah Bissoon) Row compression is a new feature of IBM DB2 9 that yields storage capacity savings. This article examines the storage savings and performance impact of this feature. It describes the workload characteristics and environments in which row compression wil

(Deepak Vorha) DB2 9, formerly code-named “Viper,” offers new features for the database layer of a J2EE application. Configuring DB2 9 correctly with an application server is important for implementation success. In this article, I’ll show you how to configure DB2 9 with WebSphere Application Server

(Jean Georges Perrin) The first day of a conference is always fun: a keynote announcing exciting new things, the joy of retrieving old friends and discovering some new, finally putting a face on e-mailers or even some anonymous e-mail aliases.

(Jacques Labrie) Discover an alternate methodology for accessing application data sources in IBM WebSphere Information Integrator using the WebSphere DataStage product as the connection vehicle to SAP. Application data sources can also be accessed by WebSphere Information Integrator using the WebSph