(Scott Guminy) This article provides instructions on how to configure a secure sockets layer (SSL) Accelerator with WebSphere Commerce. This helps improve the performance of your WebSphere Commerce site by offloading the SSL processing to a separate hardware. An SSL Accelerator can also give you a c

(Ben Johnson, Leilei Li and Jack Yuan) IMS, IBM’s hierarchical database-management system, continues to improve its availability and performance with enhancements specifically designed for z/OS Sysplex Distributor. This article explores some of those enhancements made available with Version 9 as wel

(Robert R. Peterson) This article develops a customer order example application that utilizes database events to invoke business processes using IBM WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server, DB2, and the WebSphere Adapter for JDBC. Learn how database-driven business processes can he

(Paul Zikopoulos) In a previous series of articles I showed you all the great integration features between the IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Version 8.x (DB2 UDB) product and the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 integrated development environment (IDE).

Clustering indexes offer the same benefits for partitioned tables as they do for regular tables. However, care must be taken in choosing a clustering index with regards to the table partitioning key definitions.

(Sushant Naik) In this article you’ll learn how to develop client services embedded transaction container applications for IBM WebSphere Everyplace Deployment for Windows and Linux using the WebSphere Everyplace Client Toolkit. The toolkit, which extends the IBM Rational Software Development Platfor

(Robert Catterall) Comedian Bill Cosby once talked about experiencing the excitement of learning as a first grader: “The teacher said, ‘One and one is two,’ and we were all going, ‘Alright! Yeah! One and one is two! That’s cool, man… “‘Uh, what’s a two?’”

(Chris Eaton) I’m going to do a series of postings on another new feature in DB2 9 called Self Tuning Memory Manager (STMM). I’ll make it a few posts since there is too much info for just one posting.

(Whei-Jen Chen, John Chun, Naomi Ngan, Rakesh Ranjan and Manoj K. Sardana) DB2 Express Edition for Community (DB2 Express-C) is a no charge data server for use in development and deployment. DB2 Express-C supports a full range of APIs, drivers, and interfaces for application development including PH

(Graeme Birchall) This Cookbook is for DB2 UDB for Windows, Unix, Linux, etc. It is not suitable for z/OS or DB2 for AS/400. The SQL in these two products is somewhat different. (pdf)