Complimentary Self-Study Courses
The self-study courses and tutorials listed below are available for download at no charge to you.
To find a course or tutorial that meets your needs, select a category from the following list:
DB2
- New SQL and XQuery Tutorial Series for IBM DB2
This tutorial series teaches basic to advanced SQL and basic XQuery topics. You will learn how to express commonly asked business questions as database queries. A sample database has been integrated into this tutorial to help you practice your newly acquired skills. Developers and database administrators can use this tutorial to enhance their database query skills.
Dynamic Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
- Integrating IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner Visualization into your Web application
This tutorial shows you how to deploy IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner Visualization (IM Visualization) as an integrated part of your Web application.
- Mining your Business in Retail with IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner
This tutorial shows you how to apply data mining techniques using IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner to automatically generate product recommendations for customers in an e-commerce shop environment.
Enterprise Content Management
- 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.
- WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition Cookbooks
- DB2 Content Manager Version 8 System Administration Workshop
This complimentary workshop consists of 10 teaching sessions and hands-on labs. It has recently been updated to V8.2. It is designed to help candidates prepare to become certified as an IBM Certified Solution Designer - DB2 Content Manager V8.
- Deploy semantic search with WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition
Learn how to configure and deploy a semantic search solution using WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition 8.2.2. This tutorial includes some pre-built text analysis steps, based on the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) SDK. Based on a user scenario, you will deploy these steps into the OmniFind processing flow, and set up the configuration necessary to enable semantic search. Each step of the tutorial includes sample queries that show the added value of semantic search over traditional keyword search.
Information Platform and Solutions
- Information Integration FlexLearning
Learn at your own place at your own pace with this new interactive Web-based learning using real-world business examples. Enhance your traditional classroom training with cost effective and efficient guided, hands-on exercises and self-assessment questions. Pay only an annual subscription fee based on number of students and you gain access to the entire library of FlexLearning courses.
- Introduction to architecting WebSphere Information Integrator solutions
This tutorial gives you an introduction and broad overview of WebSphere Information Integrator. If you want to learn what information integration is, or have a business need to integrate information across your enterprises, and want to learn how your needs and requirements can be met using IBM WebSphere Information Integrator, this tutorial is for you.
- Replicate Data In the Fast Lane
In this tutorial, learn how to set up a straightforward Q replication scenario: one-way or unidirectional replication between two remote databases. As a bonus, also learn how to create and use WebSphere MQ queue managers, message queues, and channels that provide the transport layer for replication.
- Access heterogeneous data with WebSphere Information Integrator: Part 1, Create EJB components that manipulate federated data methods
Many developers are faced with the problem of managing heterogeneous data -- that is, data kept in various kinds of stores that needs to be managed in a unified way. One way to access such data is through IBM WebSphere Information Integrator, working in tandem with a J2EE application server like WebSphere Application Server. In this tutorial, you'll see how you can use these products to create a unified integration layer for heterogeneous data, and to build Enterprise JavaBean components that can access and manipulate that data.
- Access heterogeneous data with WebSphere Information Integrator: Part 2, Deploy EJB components to a portal environment
This is the second tutorial in a series that shows you how to simplify your portal applications by accessing heterogeneous data through EJB components over SQL views. The first tutorial in this series showed you how to set up a database and integration layer, and develop the EJB components. In this tutorial, you'll take the EJB components that you built in the first tutorial and deploy them to a portal environment for easy access to the underlying data.
- Simplified portal applications with WebSphere Information Integrator
This tutorial has been developed to help simplify Web or portal based applications that access relational and non-relational data. The tutorial will help you learn how to develop applications that bring all of this data together in a simple relational view. You'll learn how the integration capabilities of WebSphere Information Integrator enables you to rapidly deploy portal applications and that WebSphere Information Integrator provides a single interface to heterogeneous information, allowing you to focus on the portal interface, content, and logic.
- Integrating asynchronous information: Using WebSphere Information Integrator and WebSphere MQ
WebSphere Information Integrator enables real-time integrated access to heterogeneous data such as relational databases, XML documents, queues, and text files. It can all be transparently accessed from a common platform and combined using the power of SQL. In this tutorial you'll use WebSphere Information Integrator to quickly configure access data from DB2 databases, XML documents, and a WebSphere MQ Series queue, and you will build and run SQL that displays and combines data from these sources.
Information Management Certification Preparation Tutorials
- New 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 Content Manager Version 8 System Administration Workshop
This complimentary workshop consists of 10 teaching sessions and hands-on labs. It has recently been updated to V8.2. It is designed to help candidates prepare to become certified as an IBM Certified Solution Designer - DB2 Content Manager V8.
- 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.
