(Chenhong Xia) This is Part 2 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

(Irina Kogan, Matthias Nicola and Berni Schiefer) Learn about the performance and scalability characteristics of a simulated securities brokerage transaction processing environment using DB2 9 XML, IBM POWER5+, AIX 5.3, and TotalStorage DS8100. This scenario includes use of the FIXML schema, a finan

(Willie Favero) If you have been reading up about DB2 Version 8, you may have come across a new acronym for DB2 folk: PDSE. It stands for “partitioned data set extended” and it has actually been around for quite a while. Maybe not as long as the other acronym that we are a whole lot more familiar wi

(Eric Michiels) On March 16, IBM announced Rational Data Architect (RDA), a new Eclipse-based tool that enables you to discover, model, visualize, relate, and develop distributed data assets in different formats.

(Cheryl D. Ross) IBM recently announced DB2 V9 as a groundbreaking new release of the database that delivers “the most significant database technology enhancements in over two decades.” But while it offers a preview of some things to come for the iSeries, in some other ways it’s just playing catch-u

(Saida Davies, William Moore, Albert Chung, Qian Li Jin, Gregorio Patino and Lakshminarayanan Sreenivasan (S L)) This IBM Redbook shows you how to develop a JCA resource adapter based on IBM WebSphere Adapter Architecture. The custom adapter we build in this book implements J2EE Connector architectu

(Willie Favero) Over the last few months I have made a few posts about the zIIP specialty engine that DB2 V8 will be able to take advantage of. (See post 01/24/2006, 02/01/2006, 02/09/2006, 02/23/2006, and 04/27/2006). This post is an update on the enablement APARs.

(Chris Eaton) Another new feature of DB2 9 (formerly known as viper) is a new security administrator’s authority. Called SECADM, this new authority pulls together a set of security related privileges. These privileges are not even available to the SYSADM or DBADM users.

(Justin Whitney) With the release of IBM’s DB2 9, formerly known as Viper and currently in Release Candidate, IBM also plans to unveil the new DB2 9 Developer Workbench. Existing DB2 users will recognize the functionality as the current DB2 Development Center. But the new version, available as a fre

(Willie Favero) My attempt here was to paraphrase Mark Twain’s quote “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” However, while trying to find the correct wording I discovered that most think Mark Twain actually said something similar but quite different. But you know, this isn’t my English Litera