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- TOAD for DB2 (1)
- TOAD for DB2 is a database development solution that provides productivity features/functions for rapidly creating and executing queries, facilitating database object management, developing SQL code, and accessing DB2 expertise instantly. Toad Developers have access to a community of users, peers, and experts. Version 3.1.1 includes brand new version with many...
- Tags: Quest Software Inc., IBM DB2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Storage, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-05-07
- DB2 9 and z/OS XML System Services Synergy Update
- DB2 9 is a hybrid data server with integrated pureXML technology to natively manage XML data with unprecedented reliability, availability, scalability and performance. DB2 9 pureXML exploits z/OS XML System Services for high-performance parsing with improved price performance utilizing IBM eServer zSeries specialty engines. DB2 9 has XML data type...
- Tags: XML, IBM z/OS, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., DB2 9, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-03-26
- Performance of Environments Using DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition
- DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition V9.1 for Linux on zSeries (DB2 Connect) connects LAN-based systems and their applications to the company's mainframe host DB2 databases. Additionally, DB2 Connect can be used in a three tier environment and can act as a gateway concentrating large numbers of SQL connections from various clients...
- Tags: Performance, Environment, IBM DB2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-02-01
- 15 Best Practices for pureXML Performance in DB2
- DB2 9 introduces pureXML support, which means that XML data is stored and queried in its inherent hierarchical format. To query XML data, DB2 offers two languages, SQL/XML and XQuery. Additionally, DB2 9 has sophisticated XML indexing capabilities and support for XML Schema validation. While most existing performance guidelines for...
- Tags: Performance, pureXML, Best Practice, XML-Data, IBM DB2, DB2 9, Performance Management, XML, Databases, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-16
- Shred XML Documents Using DB2 pureXML: Two Methods for XML Decomposition in DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
- This paper focuses on ways to "Shred" XML data in DB2. Shredding is the process of mapping XML elements and attributes into relational tables and columns. One way to shred in DB2 is through the use of an annotated XML schema. If the XML data contains an XML schema, it...
- Tags: Linux, XML Schema, XML Document, Microsoft Windows, Unix, IBM DB2, XML, Databases, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-03
- Accessing a DB2 Data Warehouse Using DB Connect in SAP BI 7.0
- The goal of this paper is to draw together all the steps needed to configure a Virtual Provider in SAP to access external DB2 data. SAP documentation covers most of the SAP-related configuration issues, so this paper duplicates some of the information in the SAP help documents. However, the SAP...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, SAP AG, IBM DB2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-12-20
- IBM business partner develops greenhouse meter
- One of the toughest things about being a technology VAR or reseller is finding a way to "productize" your intellectual property. Otherwise, your tech guys find themselves building custom solutions for virtually every customer. Not so for Enterprise Information Management EIM, a small IBM Business Partner that has struck green...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Portal, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., GreenCert, Portals, Enterprise Software, Databases, Internet, Software, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- RapidQuery (exe)
- RapidQuery supports the following Databases: DB2, Firebird, Informix, Interbase, MySQL ,ODBC, OLEDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLBase, SQLServer, Sybase. To be specific DB2 is DB2 for mainframe (ZOS,MVS), Windows, Linux, Aix and Unix. The price of RapidQuery is $USD 125 which Radem-Soft believes is a reasonable price for the quality and the...
- Tags: IBM DB2, Radem-Soft, RapidQuery, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-12-07
- Using the Altova Tools With ibm db2 pureXML
- IBM and Altova provide deep integration between the world's first multi-structured data server with the industry's premier XML tools. Through this integration, users can query, exchange, transform, and edit their XML artifacts more quickly, easily, and accurately. The first release of the integrated solution took place in May 2007. This...
- Tags: Altova, Tool, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Productivity, XML, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-12-06
- Delivering Simplified Access to Business Insights With ibm db2 Warehouse
- Valuable information - whether structured or unstructured, operational or transactional, real-time or historical - is scattered throughout every enterprise. This information may reside in databases and data warehouses, e-mails and transaction logs, customer call logs, shopper behavior or repair orders. When leveraged properly, it can be used to make better...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Access, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Team Management, Sales Strategy, Databases, Storage, Management, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Performance and Scalability of a Large OLTP Workload With DB2 9 for System z on Linux
- This paper demonstrates data server scalability for DB2 9 running on IBM System z with Linux. It captures the best practices for deploying IBM DB2 9 for mission critical OnLine Transaction Processing OLTP workloads in their product environment. IBM System z technologies offer a rich set of platform-deployment features ranging...
- Tags: Linux, Performance, Scalability, OLTP, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Microsoft: SQL Server licensing to win Oracle customers
- Microsoft: SQL Server licensing to win Oracle customersRE: Microsoft: SQL Server licensing to win Oracle customersMicrosoft knows when they have a winner of a product and SQL Server is it. We use it at work along with an Oracle database and guess which holds up better? I can see...
- Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, Servers, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, server
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- Extreme Business Warehousing: Experiences With SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence at 20 Terabytes Using ibm db2 Storage Optimization Feature
- SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Installations are becoming larger and more demanding in terms of performance, availability, disk usage and other resources. SAP NetWeaver BI running on IBM DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (DB2 9) supports the usage of the Database Partitioning Feature DPF with one or more DB2...
- Tags: Warehousing, SAP NetWeaver, Storage, SAP AG, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Installations, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-10-26
- DB2 Security and PCI Compliance: A Best Practices Guide
- PCI is a set of collaborative security requirements for the protection of credit card transactions and cardholder data for all brands. This paper will review DB2 solutions that are compliant to the requirements for data at rest encryption in the PCI Data Security Standard and are based on a design...
- Tags: Best Practice, Encryption, IBM DB2, Protegrity, PCI, Security, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-19
- Update XML in DB2 9.5
- One of the most significant new features in IBM DB2 9.5 for Linux, Unix and Windows is the XML update functionality. The previous version, DB2 9, introduced pureXML support for storing and indexing of XML data and querying it with the SQL/XML and XQuery languages. Modifications to an XML document...
- Tags: XQuery, IBM DB2, XML, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-10-11
- EMS Data Import 2007 for DB2 (zip)
- EMS Data Import for DB2 is a powerful tool to import your data quickly from MS Excel, MS Access, DBF, TXT, CSV and XML files to DB2 tables. It provides adjustable import parameters, including: source data formats for all the fields and destination data formats for the selected fields, commit...
- Tags: IBM DB2, DB2 Data Import, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-10-10
- Index Compression with DB2 9 for z/OS
- In data warehouse applications, it is common to have many very large indexes defined on large tables. It is also possible that the index spaces exceed the size of the tables upon which the indexes are based. As one way of helping to manage the cost of ownership, in DB2...
- Tags: Compression, IBM z/OS, Index, IBM DB2, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Databases, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-07
- Programming With XML for DB2, Part 4: Integrate Data From Different Data Sources in Your Web-Based DB2 Application
- Walk through the steps for creating a sample IBM DB2 application that uses the XML model to integrate data from different data sources. Learn how to expose the database stored procedures as Web services so that they can be accessed through SOAP calls. Follow a Web-oriented architecture that assembles information...
- Tags: Web, Data Source, IBM DB2, Programming, IBM Corp., XML, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-09-20
- IBM giving away social networking
- The IBM Symphony tools the company is now giving users free is aimed at nothing less than jump-starting a social revolution in the workplace. I spoke with Alan Lepofsky right, a member of the IBM Lotus strategy team, and our discussion quickly turned toward the changes in business...
- Tags: Social Networking, Network, Open Source, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- XMLTABLE by Example, Part 2: Common Scenarios for Using XMLTABLE With DB2 - Get the Most Out of This SQL/XML Function
- The XMLTABLE function is a very versatile tool for processing XML data in SELECT and INSERT statements. In this paper, one will see how XMLTABLE can be deployed to split big XML documents into small ones, to perform simple XML shredding, or to produce a hybrid representation of your XML...
- Tags: SQL, XML-Data, IBM DB2, XMLTABLE, XMLTABLE Function, XML, Databases, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-09-13
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