A security flaw in Linux editions of IBM's DB2 database could allow unauthorized users to seize control of a database's contents, Big Blue has revealed. IBM said that the problem affects version 7 ...

IBM is expected to demonstrate some of the Linux clustering capabilities it is building into its DB2 database at the LinuxWorld conference in New York next week. The new features in the ...

The upcoming version of DB2 will incorporate support for the most recent Linux kernel, version 2.6, which is expected to provide better performance and scale for clustered servers and 64-bit ...

Designed for organizations that run online transaction processing (OLTP) applications on distributed systems, IBM DB2 pureScale offers clustering technology that helps deliver high availability and ...

Like other software products, frequent fixes are applied to DB2 in the form of a FixPak. There may eventually be as many as 15 or more FixPaks within a given version of DB2, each containing ...

3For Mainframes Only For some years DB2, was exclusively available on IBM mainframes. Through the years, IBM has brought DB2 to other platforms, including Unix, Windows and Linux.

Asked about the notion of open-sourcing DB2 during the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, Jim Wasko, director of the IBM Linux Technology Center, said such an issue was “a ...

DB2 comes with many nice GUI utilities, all using Java for display (which seems to be the standard modus operandi of Linux database companies). To use it, you must use IBM’s JDK 1.1.8 for Linux ...

That’s why the organization moved to Linux about two years ago. Last year the WCB upgraded to IBM Corp.’s DB2 database running on a 64-bit Dell 3250 Intel Corp. Itanium 2 server with Red Hat ...

IBM is buying market share in the realm of Unix database management systems. Traditionally, the strength of IBM's database product line (DB2) has been on the OS/390 and OS/400 operating systems ...

identifies the DB2 table or DB2 view that you want to use to create an access descriptor. Table name is limited to 18 characters. If you quote the name, it is case-sensitive. The TABLE= statement is ...

identifies the DB2 table or DB2 view that you want to use to create an access descriptor. Table name is limited to 18 characters. If you quote the name, it is case-sensitive. A DB2 table with the same ...