DB2 is a family of relational database management system (RDBMS) products from IBM that serve a number of different operating system platforms. According to IBM, DB2 leads in terms of database market share and performance. Although DB2 products are offered for UNIX-based systems and personal computer operating systems, DB2 trails Oracle's database products in UNIX-based systems and Microsoft's Access in Windows systems. In addition to its offerings for the mainframe OS/390 and VM operating systems and its mid-range AS/400 systems, IBM offers DB2 products for a cross-platform spectrum that includes UNIX-based Linux, HP

IBM DB2 Document Manager Version 8.3 is one of the newest members of the IBM Enterprise Content Management portfolio. Document Manager provides a secure and robust platform to manage the complete life cycle of business documents. It helps ensure accurate and up-to-date documents are available on demand. When configured with IBM DB2 Records Manager Version...   Read Article.

This IBM Redbook deals with IBM DB2 Content Manager implementation and migration. It is aimed at architects, designers, developers, and system administrators of Content Manager systems. We cover the basic concepts needed to design and implement a Content Manager solution. This includes topics on data modeling, workflow, text indexing and search,...   Read Article.

IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS represents the effort on converging OMEGAMON XE for DB2 and DB2 Performance Expert into one product that retains the best features of each. This new tool gives you a single, comprehensive tool to help assess the efficiency of and optimize performance from your DB2 Universal Database in the z/OS...   Read Article.

Need a jump start on using DB2 with JDBC technology? Database programming with JDBC lets Java programmers interact programmatically with database systems. Kulvir Bhogal and Grant Hutchison discuss the subject of programming with JDBC when the target database is the IBM DB2 universal database....   Read Article.

This Venture Technologist's analysis explores, compares and contrasts structure and pricing of Oracle and IBM software support models, concluding IBM support programs are generally less expensive, and are flexible and more associated with helping customers....   Read Article.

In this tutorial, you will build a sample customer application that invokes Web services as user defined functions. This tutorial demonstrates how Web services calls can be easily combined with SQL to create DB2 applications on the Windows platform. You will use IBM DB2 Add-ins for Visual Studio .Net to create this application. IBM DB2 Add-ins...   Read Article.