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IBM Information Management books
Listing of books specific to IBM Information Management products.

Last updated: 15 Mar 2008

IBM Data Servers Books
Great deals on books specific to IBM Data Servers products. Learn from the best developers IBM has to offer.

Last updated: 15 Feb 2008

Information On Demand - Part 1 - Unlocking the Business Value of Information
IBM's Information On Demand solutions are key enablers to help turn information into a competitive differentiator. This transformation supports a faster response to changing business requirements, faster time to the marketplace and improved return on investment for business optimization investments.

Last updated: 11 Jun 2008

Take control of your XML data with IBM® DB2® pureXML™ and Altova tools
To enhance productivity when working with XML, XML Schema, XQuery, and other XML-related technologies supported by DB2 9, Altova has built specialized capabilities that deliver deep integration with the DB2 9 pureXML data server into XML and data management products.

Last updated: 27 Jul 2007

Today's Challenges, Tomorrow's Opportunities
Learn answers to eight infrastructure challenges. Organizations in many ways depend upon IT delivering the products and services their markets require. Yet they do not simply want “more IT.” They want more of what is necessary to transform their business.

Last updated: 18 Sep 2006

IBM DB2 9 pureXML data server for financial marketplaces
DB2 9 supports XML documents in their natural, hierarchical XML format. This capability, called IBM DB2 pureXML™ technology, makes managing XML data as efficient, robust and cost-effective as managing relational data. With DB2 9 programmers and database administrators can leverage their existing DB2 skills.

Last updated: 26 Nov 2007

IBM DB2 deep compression brings operational savings to SAP customers
This flyer describes the advantages of the new DB2 Deep Compression feature for SAP customers and SAP customers planning to migrate their SAP solution to DB2.

Last updated: 28 Aug 2007

Migrating an SAP environment to IBM DB2.
This flyer describes the advantages a customers may achieve migrating his SAP solution to DB2 and what IBM offerings exist for customers deciding for DB2.

Last updated: 28 Aug 2007

Controlling the cost of storage management
DB2 and Tivoli offer leading edge technology that enables you to address the continued strains on your available storage resources through powerful data compression features.

Last updated: 14 Aug 2007

IBM Spatial Solutions
IBM Spatial Solutions provide the capabilities to help organizations manage spatial data on demand. Organizations realize greater benefits by being able to manage information identified by location & being able to integrate this data with organization applications to make more informed decisions and solve complex problems.

Last updated: 09 Jul 2007

ESRI and IBM: Transforming Enterprise GIS
Geographic information system (GIS) solutions and Web services from ESRI and IBM help governments and businesses solve complex problems and create new business value—higher productivity, doing more with less, better product or service differentiation, and improved customer loyalty.

Last updated: 17 Apr 2007

Get off to a fast start with the Information On Demand roadmap
This brochure discusses the challenges of managing information throughout an organization and describes how the IBM Information On Demand offering portfolio can help you take back control of your information assets.

Last updated: 07 Feb 2007

Putting information in motion to speed business value and innovation
Most organizations are drowning in data, spreadsheets, paper-based documents, e-mails, and instant messages. IBM Information On Demand can help you provide trusted, relevant information to the people, processes and applications that need it, when it is needed, so that activities and business processes can be optimized.

Last updated: 07 Feb 2007

Information Services Architecture Workshop
Ensure that appropriate information services for your SOA implementation aligns with the business and IT requirements for the organization. Leverage your information management technology.

Last updated: 14 Nov 2006

IBM solidDB Database
As relational in-memory database software, solidDB performs up to ten times faster than conventional databases. Whether deployed as a cache for IBM DB2 or IDS, or standalone as the database of record, solidDB delivers performance-critical data with extreme speed.

Last updated: 02 Jun 2008

DB2 Express 9 Data Sheet
DB2 Express 9 delivers a flexible, cost-effective data server for independent software vendors (ISVs) who want to grow revenue and reduce development costs.

Last updated: 04 Aug 2006

Manage Your Business, Not Your Data Server with DB2 9
The pureXML technology in DB2 9 unlocks the latent potential of XML by providing simple efficient access to XML with the same levels of security, integrity, and resiliency taken for granted with relational data.

Last updated: 21 Jun 2006

IBM DB2 and SAP: Together in the Fast Lane
This demo discusses the key technology values that IBM DB2 9 offers to SAP customers that are running SAP applications. Listen to SAP discuss the value of DB2 and the IBM partnership which has brought innovative technology that gives customers high performance & highly integrated data management software optimized for SAP.

Last updated: 09 Jun 2008

Leveraging DB2 Performance Expert for Business Intelligence
This presentation shows how IBM DB2 Performance Expert can be used to analyze and fix typical performance issues that occur in Business Intelligence environments.

Last updated: 14 Sep 2007

Performance Management Solutions for IBM DB2 Content Manager
This presentation provides an overview of IBM’s performance and monitoring solutions for IBM DB2 Content Manager.

Last updated: 14 Sep 2007

High Availability of Data with DB2 Express-C
Making your Data Highly available with DB2 Express-C 9

Last updated: 28 Apr 2007

Feature Demonstration of the IBM Migration Toolkit
This demonstration introduces you to the features of the IBM Migration Toolkit (MTK). It takes about 8 minutes, and will walk you through a sample migration. An Oracle 8i database is used as the source database, but MTK can also be used to migrate from Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix Dynamic Server, and MySQL.

Last updated: 28 Mar 2007

IBM DB2 9.1 Information Center for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
Here you can find information that you need to use the DB2 family of products and features as well as related WebSphere(R) Information Integration products and features. Last updated for Version 9.1

Last updated: 01 Oct 2007

IBM DB2 9.5 Information Center for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
Here you can find information describing how to use the DB2 family of products and features, as well as related WebSphere Information Integration products and features. Last updated for Version 9.5.

Last updated: 01 Oct 2007

Information On Demand Today Newsletter
Monthly newsletter about IBM Information Management and Information On Demand. Subscribe to only the information you want to receive and get access to a broad range of information on the entire portfolio of Information Management software solutions.

Last updated: 09 Aug 2007

DB2 database product documentation
Technical documentation and Information Centers for DB2 9.5, DB2 9, DB2 V8, DB2 V7, and additional components such as DB2 Connect, and WebSphere Federation Server.

Last updated: 30 Oct 2007

Automated Instance Failover using the IBM DB2 High Availability Instance Configuration Utility (db2haicu)
This paper describes a distinct configuration of an automated IBM® DB2® for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows® failover solution using shared disk storage. The configuration is based on the DB2 High Availability (HA) feature and the DB2 High Availability Instance Configuration Utility (db2haicu) in DB2 9.5.

Last updated: 06 May 2008

Automated Cluster Controlled HADR (High Availability Disaster Recovery) Configuration Setup using the DB2 High Availability Instance Configuration Utility (db2haicu)
We describe the use of the integrated HA functionality in DB2 v9.5 to automate HADR failovers. Configuration via XML (batch) setup and non-XML (interactive) setup is described. Common failures and the automated cluster response to them is detailed.

Last updated: 15 Jan 2008

IBM DB2 pureXML Data Server: DB2 pureXML helps insurers deliver information on demand
With IBM® DB2® 9 data server, IBM introduced an optimized structure for XML data in which XML documents are a supported data type and stored in their natural, hierarchical XML format.

Last updated: 26 Nov 2007

IBM DB2 9.5 Memory Protection using System p Storage Protection Keys
This paper explains how DB2 9.5 utilizes a new System p hardware feature – storage protection keys – to prevent memory corruption.

Last updated: 12 Nov 2007

IBM pureXML for SOA: Unlocking the business value of information
This white paper outlines how IBM can help guide businesses through the process of getting started with SOA and XML. IT managers can work with experts from across IBM to develop competencies that are necessary to use XML within a SOA environment.

Last updated: 08 Aug 2007

The Self-Tuning Memory Manager
The Self-Tuning Memory Manager (STMM) works by iteratively modifying the memory configuration in small increments with the goal of improving overall system performance. STMM will be useful to the vast majority of DB2 9 users as a diagnostic tool or when dealing with new workloads with unknown memory requirements.

Last updated: 16 Jul 2007

High-performance SAP NetWeaver BI solutions based on IBM DB2 9 and IBM Systems Solution for SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator
Business Intelligence and analytics solutions have become mission-critical in today’s SAP landscapes. This technical white paper highlights how new SAP technologies and IBM infrastructure components help customers achieve a scalable SAP NetWeaver based BI solution with strong performance and low total cost of ownership.

Last updated: 18 May 2007

High Availability and Disaster Recovery with IBM DB2 Express-C 9
Creating Robust and Reliable Data Server Clusters with IBM DB2 Express-C 9

Last updated: 28 Apr 2007

DB2 9 Row Compression in a SAP R/3 production system
This paper describes the results of an analysis that was executed at a customer site. The system investigated was an SAP production system using SAP R/3 Enterprise with the industry solution insurance. The analysis comprises the effects on the compression of large tables using the DB2 9 row compression feature.

Last updated: 17 Apr 2007

IBM DB2 Real-Time Insight powered by DB2 Data Stream Engine
IBM DB2 Real-Time Insight, when used with the DB2 database server, enables organizations to manage extremely high volumes of data from multiple sources, make it available for prompt analysis, and store it for future access.

Last updated: 03 Apr 2007

Setting up MSCS for DB2 using VMWare
This paper describes how to setup a DB2 installation on a Microsoft Cluster Server running on VMWare. The goal of this paper is to provide a step by step process which results in obtaining an operational DB2 Cluster in a sandbox environment for educational or testing purposes. This can be used to mimic a production system.

Last updated: 21 Dec 2006

Troubleshooting the DB2 Universal Database Version 8 (DB2 UDB 8) and DB2 9 Global Registry (global.reg)
This paper discusses the details of the DB2 Global Registry which is used to store installation configuration data.

Last updated: 19 Oct 2006

IBM DB2 9 Unveiled: Overview and New Enhancements
IBM DB2 9 (previously codenamed 'Viper') for Linux, UNIX, and Windows marks a new stage in the evolution of data servers. This IBM white paper introduces you to many of DB2 9's revolutionary features and capabilities.

Last updated: 12 Sep 2006

The Business Benefits of DB2 9 - Bloor Research Whitepaper
This paper, authored by analyst Philip Howard of Bloor Research, examines the major new features of DB2 9 - XML, compression, SAP optimisation, range partitioning, security, and tuning – and explores how they provide significant business benefits.

Last updated: 01 Aug 2006