(Justin Whitney) Part 1 covered installing and configuring your free download of DB2 9 Express-C and populating your AJAXDEMO database. Now you will learn how to create a Web Service in Visual Studio 2005 using the DB2 9 Add-ins to interact with those services using asynchronous JavaScript.

(Tony Erwin) The challenge of managing a heterogeneous enterprise is one of the most daunting problems facing IT professionals today. The sheer number of resources (systems, applications, network devices, etc.) in a single environment can be quite large and ever-changing, and a typical administrator

(Justin Whitney) XML is nothing new. But thanks to new programming techniques like Ajax, its uses have grown tremendously over the recent years. But strangely enough, databases have had few, if any, native XML features—until now.

(Willie Favero) Now that DB2 9 has been around for a while on the distributed platform and is well into its beta on the mainframe, I wanted to write an addendum to my May 5 post, “What’s in a name?” and talk a little more about the name of our newest DB2.

(Soumita Ghosh, Sobha Rani Cheruku and Akhilesh Kumar Tiwary) A common requirement these days for database application developers is to be able to expose functions that access data on the Web. In this article, we show you how to expose an Informix user-defined routine (UDR) or user-defined datatype

(Suita Gupta) When you first begin to learn about DB2 for iSeries, figuring out how to access all the data you have can be intimidating. I’ll introduce some common ways of getting to DB2 for iSeries data and show you how to start developing applications to access data stored in a DB2 for iSeries dat

(Willie Favero) I have posted a bunch of times now with list of APARs required to enable the zIIP specialty engine. This time, although zIIP related, is a little different. The APAR PK27712 fixes a problem with the accounting reports in DB2 PM and DB2 PE when reporting real zIIP time or PROJECTCPU

(Michael Sansoterra) The introduction of SQL Server 2005 has brought some exciting new features for developers. For instance, the ability to integrate heterogeneous systems with SQL Server in real time keeps getting easier. Part I of this series covered the power and ease of using linked servers

(Samantha Tran and Manoj Mohan) Learn how to implement trusted context on DB2 in a command line interface (CLI), XA, or Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)-based application. Using a trusted context in an application can improve security by placing accountability at the middle-tier, reducing over gran

(Paolo Bruni, Mark Anders, KyengDong Park, Mark Rader and Judy Ruby-Brown) DB2 for z/OS takes advantage of data sharing technology in a z Parallel Sysplex to provide applications with full concurrent read and write access to shared DB2 data. Data sharing allows users on multiple DB2 subsystems, memb