IBM next year will release a tool—code-named Cinnamon—that will enable its Content Manager software to more easily index and search XML data.Cinnamon is a result of Clio, an ongoing research project at IBM’s Almaden Research Center that aims to develop a tool for automatically creating mappi

By Ellen O’Brien – The product is the first to be released as a result of IBM’s Xperanto research project, and the company heralded the announcement as a major advancement in its On Demand computing initiative. IBM has described its Xperanto project as the foundation for a new class of integration s

Deploying an app with DB2 UDB Express is easy, especially if someone shows you how. Our sample ToyStore application uses a graphical installation wizard that installs the application and DB2 UDB Express.

Learn how to access IBM’s DB2 with Microsoft’s .NET. Discover what techniques work best, what functionality to expect, and how to avoid problems. Vendor lock-in? Who’s ever heard of such a thing?

By Jim Haungs – You can avoid a costly C compiler by using the solution outlined in this article, which relies on the GNU C Compiler (GCC), a free open-source C compiler, with DB2 on Windows®.

Are your resources being stretched even tighter from the demands of ever-growing test environments? Are you experiencing difficulties like too many testing subsystems, too much DASD used, overworked testing and DBA staff, unexpected hardware upgrades, corrupted test results, and lengthened developme

By Phil Howard – Ingres (technically, Advantage Ingres Enterprise) is, arguably, the forgotten database. There used to be five major databases: Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Informix and Ingres. Then along came Microsoft and, if you listened to most press comment (or the lack of it), you would think that the

with Robert Catterall – Without using SMS, DB2 has an object size limit of 4GB. According to the documentation I can find, this would equate to about 4,704 cylinders of 3390 storage. Yet when we see physical DB2 objects reach this limit, they always max out at 5,826 cylinders. Do you know why this i

BMC Software has acquired DGI (Database Guys Inc.), a maker of performance management tools for IBM’s DB2 Universal Database, for $3 million, according to BMC.

By Howard Fosdick – The November 2002 release of DB2 UDB version 8.1 for Linux, Unix, and Windows prompted an upgrade of the DB2 certification program. Certification requirements are largely the same, and most of the new v.8 certification exams have direct counterparts in the older DB2 tests.