(Chris Fierros) In this article we will cover in detail the more popular languages available for scripting on Windows, including Jscript and VBScript, that can be used to develop and deploy DB2 UDB scripts within the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) environment. Topics covered include: –Windows
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DB2 Library Contents in Operations Navigator
(Kevin Vandever) Operations Navigator, or OpsNav, as it is affectionately known, has kicked up iSeries operation, administration, and application development several notches, yet many of you still use green-screen methods or other products that don’t compare with what OpsNav can do. One of those thi
A Simple Approach to Index Redesign
(Martin Hubel) Through my years of tuning DB2 applications on platforms ranging from mainframes to workstations, I am rarely called in before a problem has occurred. This means fixing an application to either achieve or restore acceptable performance. I often find that the application is not writ
Porting Unmanaged Legacy C++ Applications That Interact with DB2 Mainframes into .NET/C#
(Satender Saroha) Recently there has been a sudden increase in new development projects for migrating existing C/C++ applications written on the UNIX/Windows platform to .NET. There are a variety of reasons for that, foremost among them being the desire to utilize the wide range of capabilities the
Smarter Solutions Defy Old Comparisons
(Jim Mulkey and Nancy Lilly) In the world of DB2 utilities, great emphasis is placed on the contrasts between one vendor’s performance benchmark and another’s. However, benchmarks no longer tell the whole story. The requirements for backup and recovery, as well as the method used to evaluate the suc
DB2 Universal Database for Windows High Availability Support Using Microsoft Cluster Server
(Aslam Nomani and Lan Pham) DB2 Universal Database (UDB) is the industry’s first multimedia, Web-ready relational database management system, strong enough to meet the demands of large corporations and flexible enough to serve medium-sized and small e-businesses. DB2 Universal Database combines inte
DB2 Basics: Creating your first trigger in DB2 Universal Database
(Kulvir Singh Bhogal) When certain events take place in an IBM DB2 Universal Database database, you can fire triggers that can perform other actions. In this article, you’ll explore the world of triggers and see how they can be used to enforce business rules in your database. You’ll also learn how t
DB2 Helps San Francisco Take Bite Out of Crime
(Brian Fonseca) The city of San Francisco will join IBM on Wednesday to unveil CrimeMaps, a new application designed to simplify how local police officers track crime patterns to help alert the public of potential threats in the area. More than one year in the making and built upon IBM’s DB2 tec
Exploring DB2 Data Access via Web and Internet
Over the past year, many of our customers have been asking us for advice on designing applications that access DB2 using the World Wide Web, or via Internet/intranet. Customers are either considering applications to run in Microsoft Windows environments, or trying to remain platform independent b
A Quick Guide to Managing Content
(Martin Hubel) When I mentioned to my DBA friends that I was writing a column on IBM Content Manager, most of them had heard the name but knew little about the product. But as companies face increasing pressure to manage content as well as data, DBAs will need to know more about managing content and