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Check out db2.jobs and let me know what you think! 

Federation Server is at IOD!  Come see a live demo at the expo room, including:

• Using three-part names for simple and rapid setup and apps
• Federating BigInsights data
• Using MQTs to significantly improve query performance

Stop by the booth and say hello!

Also, later this week on Thursday, session 1105 addresses data virtualization and federation patterns.

This web site links you to announcements and also some livestreaming video from across the brands at the conference.

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/2012-conference/

And, IBM PureData Systems have been keynoted at the conference!  If you cannot attend IOD, then kick start your learning on PureData Systems with the DB2 Tech Talk this Wednesday Oct 24th.  We will also cover other hot news from IBM and…

Register today and take advantage of the complimentary DB2 10 for z/OS New Functions and Migration Planning Workshop co-presented by Julian Stuhler, IBM Gold Consultant and Mike Bracey, IBM DB2 for z/OS Systems Engineer. The workshop will be held at the IDUG Technical Conference in Berlin on Sunday 4^th November 2012 at 9.30am.

Attendees can expect to broaden their understanding of the features delivered in DB2 10 for z/OS, as well as the business…

Here's a look back over the last few month about some notable papers.

Licensing distributed DB2 10.1 servers in a high availability (HA) environment

And I'm back with my third quarter installment of technical articles about the DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows  product. Here are some papers I'm keen to inform you all know about.

DB2 Text Search, Part 5: Scheduling updates for DB2 Text…

I wanna work at IBM (its my dream) ....I am interested in DB2 and I am going to right DB2 Fundamentals exam-730.Is it enough to enter into IBM.Please guide me " How can I get a Job @IBM".

On a previous post I showed how to insert parent-child data from an XML document using stored procedure. Well here I am going to show how to retrieve data from a table as an XML document.  Using the table set of tables from the previous post lets retrieve all the order details for a given customer.  Here is a stored procedure that will take customer_id as an input and then return an xml document that has all the orders and…

Couple of days back I wrote an article that showed how to quickly insert a child table with a  parent table having generated column. On this one I am going to show you how to insert data using XML as a value.  As my previous article show its easy to insert to child table , but you have to insert one row at a time. Well what if we have multiple child rows…

You may have seen  the recent video here on ChannelDB2 that introduces auditing of DB2 changed data.  If you're interested in giving it a quick try, it's easy set up a simple configuration and see what you get. That's what I'm going to show you how to do in this post.  It should take about 5-10 minutes.  We'll use DB2's SQL Replication.  It's provided with all editions of DB2 and InfoSphere Warehouse…

A couple of months ago, IBM announced enhancements to its data replication in support of DB2 v10 for UNIX and Windows.  This month, IBM released an update to its Q Replication Dashboard that supports those enhancements and much more.  In fact, most the Dashboard's enhancements can be used with Q Replication for DB2 z/OS, too.  This post takes a quick look at…

DataStage migration part2

I have given the environment details for the migration. Now will move to the technical part of the migration.

1. The achievement is moving the DataStage project from oracle to DB2 environment.

In the old DataStage 7.5 environment, we don’t have information server concept where the DataStage repository data will be sorted in the oracle/db2 database as a separate database.

So the data will be storage in the same DataStage server. So we…

Announced April 3 and available electronically today, InfoSphere Federation Server V10.1 offers data virtualization through a robust SQL interface and a full relational database engine designed for global optimization of data access. It helps you quickly prototype and implement solutions involving disparate…

Book Give-away: Hold a chance to win free copy of the 'IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook', just by commenting!

For the contest we have two copies of IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Application Developer Cookbook to be given away to two lucky winners.

How you can win:

To win your copy of this book, all you need to do is come up with a comment below highlighting the…

Hello everyone!

I'm back with another installment of insightful and interesting articles about DB2. March saw a lot of new articles on a wide range of database subject matter.

Remember, if you don't find what you're looking for in my blog posts or on developerWorks, then reply to any of my posts and tell me exactly what you're searching…

Along with today's announcement about the new version of DB2 and InfoSphere Warehouse, IBM also announced an updated release of …

IBM Data Management Magazine covers DB2 10 and InfoSphere Warehouse 10 Releases 

 

As promised this new format is more flexible, enabling us to respond to exciting news like the DB2 10 and InfoSphere Warehouse 10 product announcements. Check out the coverage, where we feature an overview of the release; a…

As soon as PHP 5.4.0 came out, I noticed that the native DB2 driver does not compile anymore.

The reason are changes in the Zend API.

Until a new package is released, you can use the following patch to compile the driver: ibm_db2.c.patch

Here is the entire file, just in case:…