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DB2

  • Enhance business insight and scalability of XML data with new DB2 9.7 pureXML features

    New database design, administration, and development features for pureXML are available in IBM DB2(R) for Linux(R), UNIX(R), and Windows(R), Version 9.7 (announced April 22, 2009). Find out more about how these technologies can help companies integrate XML data more effectively into business intelligence environments and how companies can cope with growing XML data volumes. This article summarizes the new pureXML capabilities, explains how they can be used, and discusses sample application scenarios.

  • DB2 9.7: Online schema change

    DB2 9.7 introduces enhancements that allow you to make changes to the database objects while keeping these objects fully accessible to the database users during the modification. These enhancements allow database administrators to make vital changes to the database schema on the fly without any disruption to users. This article includes examples that demonstrate how to rename columns, change column data types, and move tables with the ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE routine. This article includes examples that demonstrate how to use the ALTER TABLE command to rename columns and change column data types. Other examples demonstrate how to use the ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE routine to move and modify tables while keeping them accessible.

  • DB2 9.7: Run Oracle applications on DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

    DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows has out-of-the-box support for Oracle's SQL and PL/SQL dialects. This allows many applications written against Oracle to execute against DB2. In this article, get a high-level overview of what Oracle compatibility means in DB2. Whether you want to switch your custom application to DB2 or extend your DBMS vendor support to DB2, now is your time.

  • DB2 9.7: Autonomous transactions

    Learn about autonomous transactions, a feature introduced in DB2 Version 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows. You will get an overview and example of what an autonomous transaction is and how to create one.

  • SQL Compatibility in DB2 9.7

    From triggers to object enhancements, this article provides a demonstration of the new Oracle compatibility features in DB2 9.7.

  • 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 DB2 also apply to XML data, this article provides additional XML-specific performance tips. This article has been updated for DB2 9.5. [2009 May 26: Corrected code in Listings 12 and 13.--Ed.]

  • Using Data Studio Administrator and DB2 High Performance Unload for fast and efficient data and schema migration

    As a database administrator (DBA), you might need to upgrade your database server when faster and more efficient hardware is made available to you. And you probably need to do this with as little impact to production performance as possible. In this article, you will follow two scenarios step-by-step to see how Erik, a DBA at a fictional company, uses Data Studio Administrator 2.1 and DB2(R) High Performance Unload 4.1 together to accomplish fast and efficient data migration. These scenarios describe how to efficiently combine the ease of use of Data Studio Administrator with the high-speed unload capabilities of DB2(R) High Performance Unload.

  • Data Web Services on DB2 for z/OS, Part 2: Integrate z/OS data sets using user-defined functions

    Learn by example how to create an external user-defined function (UDF) on DB2 for z/OS that can read z/OS Unix System Services (USS) files and z/OS data sets. You can then use existing SQL built-in functions and your own UDFs to perform data manipulation on the information stored in the data sets and files. You can also expose these "file-reading" SQL statements as IBM Data Web Services, which results in the data sets and files being available to Web service operations.

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Dynamic Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

  • DB2 Data Warehouse Performance

    Find problem SQL queries and tune them for quicker response.

  • Enhance business insight and scalability of XML data with new DB2 9.7 pureXML features

    New database design, administration, and development features for pureXML are available in IBM DB2(R) for Linux(R), UNIX(R), and Windows(R), Version 9.7 (announced April 22, 2009). Find out more about how these technologies can help companies integrate XML data more effectively into business intelligence environments and how companies can cope with growing XML data volumes. This article summarizes the new pureXML capabilities, explains how they can be used, and discusses sample application scenarios.

  • Text analysis in InfoSphere Warehouse, Part 1: Architecture overview and example of information extraction with regular expressions

    Unstructured information represents the largest, most current, and fastest growing source of information that is available today. This information exists in many different sources such as call center records, repair reports, product reviews, e-mails, and many others. The text analysis features of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse can help you uncover the hidden value in this unstructured data. This series of articles covers the general architecture and business opportunities of analyzing unstructured data with the text analysis capabilities of InfoSphere Warehouse. The integration of this capability with IBM Cognos reporting enables people across the company to exploit the text analysis results. This first article introduces the basic architecture of the text analysis feature in InfoSphere Warehouse and includes a technical example showing how to extract concepts from text using regular expressions.

  • Text analysis in InfoSphere Warehouse, Part 2: Dictionary-based information extraction combined with IBM Cognos reporting

    Unstructured information represents the largest, most current, and fastest growing source of information that is available today. This information exists in many different sources such as call center records, repair reports, product reviews, e-mails, and many others. The text analysis features of IBM InfoSphere(TM) Warehouse can help you uncover the hidden value in this unstructured data. This series of articles covers the general architecture and business opportunities of analyzing unstructured data with the text analysis capabilities of InfoSphere Warehouse. The integration of this capability with IBM Cognos(R) reporting enables people across the company to exploit the text analysis results. The first article of this series gave an overview of the text analysis capabilities in InfoSphere Warehouse and showed how to use regular expressions to extract concepts from free-form text.

  • Install and configure InfoSphere Warehouse on System z

    This article takes you through the installation of InfoSphere Warehouse on a Linux partition on System z. Learn about pre-installation requirements, then walk through the steps for a successful installation.

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Enterprise Content Management

  • External application integration with IBM Content Manager through a custom event handler

    IBM Content Manager, Version 8.4.1 supports an event infrastructure that enables the integration of external applications. A set of message formats is published for the event messages generated from an event monitor. The general integration for an external application is made possible by using a custom event handler. Because the event message informs the custom event handler of the content operations in the repository, the custom event handler can interact with external applications based on the content-aware business logic. This article provides an overview of the event framework and uses an example e-mail application to illustrate how to write a custom event handler for external application integration.

  • An event-driven framework for integrating IBM Content Manager with IBM FileNet Business Process Manager

    IBM Content Manager is a scalable, high performing content repository, while IBM FileNet Business Process Manager (BPM) is a comprehensive suite of products for managing business processes involving people, content, and systems. The integration of IBM Content Manager with FileNet BPM enables you to convert content objects into active content by using an event framework. Learn how to integrate IBM Content Manager Version 8.4.1 with FileNet BPM, and follow an example auto claims scenario demonstrating how to start a FileNet BPM process from Content Manager.

  • Perform OmniFind searches from .NET using Web services

    In this article, learn how to implement a basic Microsoft .NET search application using the IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition Web services interface. Besides providing a powerful Java Application Programming Interface that permits developers to integrate its search capabilities in J2EE- or Java-based custom applications, OmniFind Enterprise Edition also makes available a Web services programming interface that you can use to to perform searches using any programming language that supports Web services and SOAP standards.

  • Writing great code with the IBM FileNet P8 APIs, Part 1: Hello, Document!

    This article gets you started with developing a simple application, HelloDocument, with the IBM FileNet P8 Content API. Through a sequence of simple operations, learn to use coding patterns to perform a wide variety of your own operations. The P8 APIs are extensive, and it can be a little tricky for first-timers to know how to get started. This article gives you that start: an orientation and launchpad from which you can easily build your own applications. Even if you are an old hand at P8 development, you will certainly find useful information in this article and subsequent articles in the series. Future articles in this series go into more depth on specific topics in both the process and content APIs.

  • Writing great code with the IBM FileNet P8 APIs, Part 2: Spying on your handiwork

    This article shows three different techniques to see how much data you are putting on the network and holding in your objects in memory when using FileNet P8 APIs. Those two numbers turn out to be incredibly important when it comes to tuning performance in your code. The article looks at network tracing, P8 Content Java API logging, and custom class ObjectDumper for dumping out the contents of an object instance. If you understand the description of the ObjectDumper class, you will end up with a better understanding of the P8 Content APIs and their object model.

  • Develop FileNet P8 BPM 4.0 custom components using Eclipse

    Learn how custom components can provide rich functionality to the IBM FileNet P8 BPM platform. This article describes how to develop and debug P8 BPM custom components in Eclipse.

  • Simulate your business process using IBM FileNet Process Simulator

    Get an introduction to IBM FileNet Process Simulator, and walk through implementing a sample FileNet business process simulation scenario.

  • Effectively integrate FileNet IDM with FileNet Image Services

    Get detailed instructions on setting up IBM FileNet Image Services and integrating FileNet IDM with FileNet Image Services. This article illustrates installation methodologies with various databases and configuration settings, and provides tips for managing Image Services. Get an overview of the Image Services features used in IDM, such as Print/Fax, COLD documents, and multipage documents.

  • Apply IBM Classification Module to e-mail archiving

    Gain an understanding of IBM Classification Module, Version 8.6 and its integration with IBM Content Collector, Version 2.1. This solution can be deployed to classify e-mails and archive them into easily discoverable folders of an enterprise content management (ECM) system. If the content is classified for mission-critical information, then the e-mails can be declared as records to be under the control of a records management system. Learn how to install IBM Classification Module, Version 8.6, define extendable task routes for IBM Content Collector, Version 2.1, automate the classification of e-mails into folders, and mark the e-mails for record declaration.

  • Integrate FileNet BPM with IBM Content Manager, Part 1: Analyze, design, and model using FileNet Business Process Manager and IBM Content Manager

    This is the first in a series of four articles that show you how to integrate FileNet Business Process Management with IBM Content Manager Version 8 (CM8). Leverage the best features of both FileNet and Content Manager by enabling BPM to use the IBM Content Manger as its content repository. If you already have IBM Content Manager, you can make use of FileNet BPM to manage your business process, and if you are new to IBM ECM software, you have more choices for FileNet BPM with different content repositories. The series uses the ABC Company’s Auto Insurance Claim system as a fictitious example to show you how to integrate these two powerful products.

  • Integrate FileNet BPM with IBM Content Manager, Part 2: Implement the Java Business Entities and the gateway class for data in IBM Content Manager repository

    This is the second in a series of four articles that show you how to integrate FileNet Business Process Management with IBM DB2 Content Manager Version 8. In this article, learn about the work performers in FileNet P8, implement the Java business entities and create a Java gateway class. Also, see how to use Java serialization to circumvent certain limitations.

  • Integrate FileNet BPM with IBM Content Manager, Part 3: Implement the Component Integrator-based work performers

    This is the third in a series of four articles that describe how to integrate FileNet Business Process Manager with IBM Content Manger. You will see, step-by-step, how to implement the Component Integrator-based work performers. Also, learn how to register the created Java business entities object into the FileNet P8 Component Integrator to create a component queue, and make this component queue available for business processes. This article continues with the "ABC Company" scenario described in Parts 1 and 2.

  • Integrate FileNet BPM with IBM Content Manager, Part 4: Create an Auto Insurance Claim Process using FileNet Workplace

    This is the last in a series of four articles that describe how to integrate FileNet BPM with IBM Content Manager. In this article, learn to create a business process to use the newly created component queue. You'll create a business process definition using the work performer created in Part 3 to meet ABC Company's business requirements. You will also execute the business process to validate your solution.

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InfoSphere


  • An Introduction to the Master Data Management Reference Architecture

    Get a short introduction to the Master Data Management Reference Architecture for the enterprise which supports implementing Multiform Master Data Management. Learn about the key concepts that drive the design of the Master Data Management Reference Architecture and Logical System Architecture and see how to map the relevant IBM Information Management software products to the core components of the Master Data Management Reference Architecture. Each product is briefly introduced, and in the Resources section of this paper you will find a wealth of additional information for reference. Finally, you will also learn about an upcoming book, Enterprise Master Data Management: An SOA Approach Managing Core Information, that describes the Master Data Management Reference Architecture in full detail as well as other topics related to Master Data Management.

  • Use IBM Entity Analytic Solutions to analyze watch lists

    In this article, see how IBM Relationship Resolution can be utilized in a scenario where a bank has to filter job candidates through automated and intelligent mining of information on job applicants and known criminal entities. To aid this scenario, see also how IBM Relationship Resolution is configured to load and maintain biographical information on criminal entities, automatically detect relationships between job candidates and criminals on a watch list using fuzzy matching techniques, and determine the strength of such relationships based on a set of organization specific rules. Included with this article is a Web application and sample (fictitious) biographical data on criminal entities used to showcase the use of Web service APIs exposed by IBM Relationship Resolution product.

  • The information perspective of SOA design, Part 1: Introduction to the information perspective of a Service Oriented Architecture

    This article is written for architects and practitioners designing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It introduces a set of patterns and capabilities representing the information perspective in the design of an SOA. The key patterns addressed are the business glossary, the canonical model and data quality analysis. See how these patterns are positioned in SOA and discover the contributions they make to an SOA solution. Get an introduction to the related IBM products: IBM Information Server, Rational Data Architect, and IBM Industry Models. This article is the first in a series: subsequent articles explore each of the patterns in more detail and then show how IBM products may be used to implement each pattern.

  • The information perspective of SOA design, Part 2: The value of applying the business glossary pattern in SOA

    Do you find it challenging when key business terms cause confusion, back and forth debates over what they (should) mean, delays, late changes, or even complete failure in your SOA or data integration projects? This second article in the series "The information perspective of SOA design" helps you eliminate these misunderstandings by introducing the concept of a business glossary. Discover the value of a business glossary in SOA and learn how to
    define and use it to communicate more clearly with your colleagues.

  • The information perspective of SOA design, Part 4: The value of applying the canonical modeling pattern in SOA

    Discover the approach and value of canonical modeling in SOA design. See how the canonical data models can be aligned in SOA with canonical message models. In this fourth article in the "Information Aspect of SOA Related Design" series, learn about the concept's underlying data and message modeling regardless of the technology and tool choices. A future article in this series describes how various IBM software products can be used to implement the concepts described here.

  • The information perspective of SOA design, Part 6: The value of applying the data quality analysis pattern in SOA

    Discover the value and approach of data quality analysis in the context of an SOA environment. Learn about the concepts involved in data quality analysis and see the basic steps needed to initiate a data quality assesment project within the broader SOA project. Analyze these issues so that appropriate implementation choices can be made. This is the sixth article in a series called the “The information perspective of SOA design, " and will be followed by a related article that describes in more detail how the related IBM products (InfoSphere Information Analyzer) can be used in this context.

  • The information perspective of SOA design, Part 7: The execution approach for the data quality analysis pattern in SOA

    This is the seventh paper in a series called the “The Information Aspect of SOA Design." The purpose of this article is to demonstrate to an architect community the execution approach of detailed data quality analysis in the context of an SOA environment. This article focuses on the implementation of data quality analysis regardless of the specific technology in use, and will be followed by a related article that describes in more detail how the related IBM products (InfoSphere Information Analyzer) can be used in this context.

  • The information perspective of SOA design, Part 8: Use of IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer in SOA design

    Learn to use the IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer to support the data quality analysis pattern. This is the eighth paper in "The information perspective of SOA design" series. This article demonstrates to an architect community how tools from IBM -- in particular IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer and the unified metadata management of IBM Information Server -- can be used to address the Data Quality Assessment Patter in an SOA engagement. It describes the key features of the products that support the data quality analysis pattern presented in Part 6 of this series.

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Information Management Certification Preparation Tutorials

  • New DB2 9.5 SQL Procedure Developer Certification Preparation Tutorial Series

    This complimentary series of six tutorials has been developed to help you prepare for the IBM DB2 9.5 SQL Procedure Developer Certification Exam (735). These tutorials provide a solid base for each section of the exam. After a quick registration, you can begin the tutorial series. You can take the tutorials online, or download a PDF.

  • IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11 System Administration Certification Preparation Tutorial Series

    This series of eight tutorials has been developed to help you prepare for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11 System Administration Certification Exam (918). These tutorials provide a solid base for each section of the exam. However, you should not rely on these tutorials as your only preparation for the exam. After a quick registration, you can begin a tutorial. Currently parts 1 and 2 are available in this series of eight. Each tutorial should take less than two hours to complete. You can take the tutorials online, or download a PDF.

  • New Complimentary DB2 9 Application Development Certification Exam Preparation Tutorials

    This series of nine tutorials has been developed to help you prepare for the DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Application Development Certification Exam (733). Each tutorial includes a link to a DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows trial download at no charge to you! These tutorials provide a solid base for each section of the exam. However, you should not rely on these tutorials as your only preparation for the exam. After a quick registration, you can begin a tutorial. Each tutorial should take about an hour to complete. You can take the tutorials online, or download a PDF.

  • DB2 Content Manager V8.3 Certification Preparation Tutorial Series

    This series of articles is designed to prepare you for taking the IBM® DB2® Content Manager V8.3 certification exam 443. In addition, it provides a strong foundation for educating yourself on DB2 Content Manager, from understanding how to gather requirements for your content management system, to learning about the core products, to tuning and administering, to troubleshooting.

  • New DB2 9 Fundamentals Exam 730 Certification Preparation Tutorial Series

    This series of 7 tutorials provides a solid base for each section of the new DB2 9 Fundamentals exam available September 2006. Tutorials offer an introduction to SQL (Structured Query Language), how DB2 9 is packaged and installed, how to create databases and database objects, and the basics of database security and transaction isolation. After a quick registration, you can begin a tutorial. Each tutorial should take about an hour to complete. You can take the tutorials online, or download a PDF or zip file.

  • New DB2 9 DBA for Linux, Unix and Windows Exam 731 Certification Preparation Tutorial Series

    This series of 7 tutorials provides a solid base for each section of the new DB2 9 DBA exam available September 2006. They can help you attain a level of certification that can validate your database administration skills on DB2 9, help you use your DB2 knowledge to more successfully to design, implement and administer databases and reduce complexity and time creating an application. Each tutorial should take about an hour to complete. You can take the tutorials online, or download a PDF or zip file.

  • DB2 UDB for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Version 8 DBA Certification Preparation

    This series of six tutorials is designed to help you prepare for the DB2 UDB V8.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Database Administration certification Exam 701 to attain the certification, IBM Certified Database Administrator -- DB2 UDB V8.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows.

  • DB2 UDB V8 Family Fundamentals Preparation

    This series of six tutorials is designed to help you prepare for the DB2 Version 8 Family Fundamentals Exam 700 to attain the certification, IBM Certified Database Associate – DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family.

  • New DB2 V8 Application Development Certification Tutorial Series

    A series of seven free tutorials are now available designed to help you prepare for the DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Application Development certification exam (Exam 703). These tutorials provide a solid base for each section of the exam.

  • IDS 11.50 Fundamentals Exam 555 certification preparation series

    This complimentary series of nine tutorials has been developed to help you prepare for the IBM® Informix® Dynamic Server (IDS) 11.50 Fundamentals certification exam (555). This certification exam will test your knowledge of entry-level administration of IDS 11.50, including basic SQL, how to install IDS 11.50, how to create databases and database objects, security, transaction isolation, backup and recovery procedures, and data replication technologies and purposes. These tutorials provide a solid base for each section of the exam. After a quick registration, you can begin a tutorial. Each tutorial should take about an hour to complete. You can take the tutorials online or download a PDF.

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