(Paul Zikopoulos) If you’re a Microsoft .Net developer, you’re likely aware of the support DB2 offers for Visual Studio .Net 2003 and the ADO.Net 1.1 framework. You probably also noticed the release of the ADO.Net 2.0 framework late in the fourth quarter of 2005, along with accompanying Visual Studi

(Chenhong Xia) This is Part 3 of a tutorial series that teaches you how to create proof-of-concept applications to access relational and XML data in IBM DB2 9, using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005. Part 1 explained the application specifications, database design, and how to create DB2 relational

Attend “Why DB2 for z/OS data sharing should be in your life…” This is a teleconference packed with important information for anyone considering the implementation of data sharing in their DB2 for z/OS environment. (pdf, R)

(Rikki Kirzner) In a March, 2006 survey on WebSphere.org, over 80 percent of users polled* indicated they were still running older versions of WebSphere Application Server in their company. Whether or not you are among the majority of those who responded that they plan to upgrade to WebSphere Applic

(Leon Gong and Donna Venditti) Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a popular and powerful data analytical method. It explores the complex data structure and presents the information in an elegant easy-to-understand fashion. IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Edition (DWE) provides a set of comprehensive OLAP

(Bonnie Baker) Back in Quarter 1 of 2005, I wrote about the types of table spaces in DB2 for z/OS, and promised to continue that column with two additional articles: one on how locking is handled in these table spaces and the other on topics such as timeouts vs. deadlocks, lock escalation vs. lock u

(Edd Dumbill) Ruby on Rails is an open source Web framework causing a lot of excitement among Web developers. By supporting agile development techniques and a philosophy of “convention over configuration,” it has enabled many developers to radically reduce the time and pain involved in creating Web

(Bob Gibson) Python is an incredibly powerful, general purpose, high-level, object-oriented, dynamically-typed programming language that is easy to read and understand, and fun to write. To make it really exciting, all we need do is to be able to connect it to an equally powerful, and attractively p

(Craig Mullins) Earlier this year IBM announced details of the next version of z/OS and z/OS.e – Version 1.8. It seems to me that the hallmark of this new version is availability. There will be new features that enable more granular options for fast replication of data and improved recoverability op

(Jane Fung) Welcome to the second tutorial in the “Hello, World” series, which provides high-level overviews of IBM software products. This tutorial introduces you to IBM Rational Application Developer and highlights some of its basic features. It includes practical exercises that show how to create