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Hurwitz & Associates: Leveraging Information for Innovation and Competitive Advantage
Information resides in many different repositories including custom applications, e-mails, digital images and reports. You need to make sure you are leveraging all your relevant information no matter where it originated, its format, or where it resides to help your organization innovate, compete, provide service and grow.

Last updated: 27 Jul 2007

DB2 9 for z/OS Stored Procedures: Through the CALL and Beyond
This IBM Redbooks publication helps you design, install, manage, and tune stored procedures with DB29 for z/OS . Stored procedures can provide major benefits in the areas of application performance, code re-use, security, and integrity. DB2 has offered ever-improving support for developing and operating stored procedures.

Last updated: 02 May 2008

Redbook: Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS
Clients want to know how to exploit new features of both DB2 9 and SAP in their SAP BI environments. This IBM Redbook describes the benefits of DB2 9 for SAP Business Information Warehouse. It covers best practices and provides performance and tuning recommendations on a zSeries platform.

Last updated: 02 May 2008

IBM Redbooks related to DB2 for z/OS
IBM Redbooks provide positioning and value guidance, installation and implementation experiences, typical solution scenarios, and step-by-step "how-to" guidelines for DB2 for z/OS and other IBM products. They often include sample code and other support materials.

Last updated: 16 Feb 2008

DB2 9 for z/OS Pure XML: The Database for Business Information
To stay competitive in a fast-paced enterprise environment organizations need innovative ways to reduce costs and improve customer service levels. IBM DB2 9 for z/OS pureXML is the industry's first true relational and XML hybrid data server providing the ability to store XML data in a unique hierarchical structure.

Last updated: 23 Apr 2008

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

DB2 for z/OS v8
Reengineered for e-business on demand, DB2 Universal Database for z/OS, Version 8 efficiently and cost-effectively delivers information for your enterprise-class e-business applications.

Last updated: 02 Oct 2006

DB2 9 for z/OS optimizes SOA - see how
DB2 9 for z/OS offers pureXML™ for seamless, efficient integration of XML and relational data to help optimize your service oriented architecture – or SOA – initiatives. See how these new and enhanced capabilities make DB2 9 the enterprise data server for the next wave of Web business applications and SOA initiatives.

Last updated: 23 May 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

DB2 Version 9.1 for z/OS Information Center
This information center contains topics that you need to use DB2 for z/OS. By using this information, you can install or migrate to Version 9.1 of DB2 for z/OS, develop and run application programs, and administer and operate DB2 databases and subsystems.

Last updated: 11 Dec 2007

DB2 Version 8 for z/OS Information Center
This information center contains topics that you need to use DB2 for z/OS Version 8. By using this information, you can install or migrate to DB2 for z/OS Version 8, develop and run application programs, and administer and operate DB2 databases and subsystems.

Last updated: 01 Feb 2007

Doing More with Less. DB2 can give SAP users better performance with less cost
Data - it's the lifeblood of companies. As databases grows, you might think IT needs to boost budgets, acquire more hardware and software to accommodate the rising data load and provide speed customer's desire. DB2 provides better performance, has nearly unlimited scalability, may help delay or reduce capital expenditure.

Last updated: 02 May 2008

Mission: Possible. DB2 and the System z platform can turn challenges into possibilities
In today's information driven business world, reliability and performance of IT systems are essential to keeping a business running smoothly and profitably. Outages are costly and must be avoided. They can run into millions of dollars. That's why using the IBM System z platform makes sense.

Last updated: 02 May 2008

DB2 for z/OS product documentation
Technical documentation for versions 7, 8 and 9.

Last updated: 17 Sep 2007

DB2 9 for z/OS – Data On Demand
This paper provides a high-level overview of the major features of IBM DB2 9 for z/OS from an IT Executive’s perspective, with the emphasis on the underlying business value that the new release can deliver.

Last updated: 23 Aug 2007

Exploiting DB2 on System z to meet your data warehousing needs
This whitepaper examines the role of data warehousing and DB2 on System z environments. It explains the benefits of running existing data marts and data warehouses on well established System z data serving platforms to help facilitate real-time business intelligence analytics that meet today’s requirements.

Last updated: 14 Jun 2007