Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 12:04:54 -0700 From: "DB2 Today" Subject: Welcome to Version XXVII of DB2 Today ****************************************************************** ********* DB2 Today Issue XXVII - May 2002 ************ ****************************************************************** Dear IBM, IBM has become the worldwide leader in database management system software, according to an Analyst Report, with 34.6 percent market share. Also, IBM announced its 20th consecutive quarter of growth for its database software business. In the first quarter of 2002, IBM's data management business increased 28 percent and its DB2 Data Management Software increased 12 percent. For more details: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/news/pr3.html We are interested in your FEEDBACK. 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Thank you. ****************************************************************** ************ TABLE OF CONTENT ********** ****************************************************************** ================================================================== GENERAL ================================================================== ************** Offers ******************************************** <1> DB2 Universal Database Now Available at New Attractive Pricing <2> DB2 Universal Database and DB2 Spatial Extender Rebate <3> Free Copy of IBM Software Evaluation Kit (SEK) for Linux <4> Speed Start your Linux App <5> Want to Become a Member of an Exclusive Club? ************ News ************************************************ <6> IBM Announces DB2 OLAP Version 8.1 and receives good reviews <7> New IBM WebSphere business integration software lets companies cut costs, accelerate e-business <8> IBM Data Management participates in IBM WebSphere Business Integration Announcement <9> DB2 is again proven to be the top performing database on the market <10> DB2 is the best all around product <11> Borland Kylix and DB2 White Paper Available <12> New Tech Guide Available on DB2 for Linux <13> New Tutorial: Apache Web development with IBM DB2 for Linux <14> IBM eServer Cluster 1300 & DB2 for Linux Performance report <15> Simulating Massively Parallel Processing on Linux <16> Knowledge and Experience Wanted...Share It Through the IDUG Solutions Journal <17> Web Lectures - IBM Life Sciences Web Lecture Series. <18> IBM Extends DB2 UDB by Announcing More Tools on multiplatforms <19> Migrating to DB2 is easier than ever <20> Announcing the IBM Scholars Program ************** Conferences *************************************** <21> International DB2 Users Group(IDUG) Conferences <22> Hot Details on IMS Version 7 and Version 8 plus Hands-on Labs at IMS Technical Conference ================================================================== SOLUTIONS ================================================================== ********** Business Intelligence ********************************* <23> DB2 OLAP Server v8.1 Now Available Provides Many Enhancements <24> IBM WebSphere Commerce Analyzer Advanced Edition Upgraded with New Functions *********** Content Manager ************************************** <25> IBM is first Content Management Vendor to receive validation for Siebel 7 ================================================================== SKILL AND EDUCATION ================================================================== ************* DB2 CERTIFICATION ********************************** <26> DB2 Certification Program -- Registration and Sample Tests <27> Get Certified at the IBM Content Management Technical Conference <28> FREE Certification Testing at IBM Data Management Technical Conference <29> New Certification Tutorials <30> Free Certification Testing at Multiple Events <31> New Certification Exam Guide for DB2 Administration <32> Free Voucher for Certification Exam -- Prepare Now for June Test ************** CLASSES (DB2 & Informix) ************************** <33> Free Personalized Skills Plan <34> Data Management Education and Offerings <35> DB2 UDB Programming Fastpath Course ================================================================== GENERAL ================================================================== ************** Offers ******************************************** <1> DB2 Universal Database Now Available at New Attractive Pricing Due to a recent price reduction by IBM you may purchase IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux, Version 7.2 at up to 50% off the list price of DB2 offered on other distributed platforms when ordered through Passport Advantage. For more details on this announcement, pricing and information on how to order, please visit: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/linux/passport.html <2> DB2 Universal Database and DB2 Spatial Extender Rebate For a limited time only, if you acquire DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition V7.2 software product under Passport Advantage and in addition, at the same time, acquire DB2 Spatial Extender feature V7.2 software product under Passport Advantage, then you can also receive a rebate equal to 10% of the invoice price for DB2 Enterprise Edition eligible product. Also, for a limited time only, if you acquire DB2 Spatial Extender feature V7.2 software product under Passport Advantage, you can receive a rebate equal to 50% of the invoice price. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/spatial/offer.html More information on DB2 Spatial Extender: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/spatial/? <3> Free Copy of IBM Software Evaluation Kit (SEK) for Linux The Software Evaluation Kit for Linux allows developers to preview IBM middleware and development tools at no charge. With this kit, whichever platform you choose to develop on, you can deploy your Web applications and dynamic Web pages using IBM middleware for Linux. Please visit: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/is/mp/linux/sek/ <4> Speed Start your Linux App Build your next application on Linux--and help yourself to trial IBM middleware and tools for Linux , as well as all the free training and tech support you need to get started! We'll help you learn Linux, get familiar with IBM tools, and get your new app into production quickly. And if you build applications for commercial sale, IBM can help you market and sell your application through our business partner program, PartnerWorld for Developers. To participate in this limited-time Beta Now! go to: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/linux-speed-start/ <5> Want to Become a Member of an Exclusive Club? As a subscriber of DB2 Today, did you know you are eligible to enroll in IBM Software Premier Club! Premier Club brings you the latest strategic thinking, information and resources about and IBM software and the It industry. The program delivers information to support an innovative IT strategy and the resources to help you and your team execute e-Business with speed and precision. Through a personalized Web site and monthly e-mail updates, IBM Software Premier Club brings you a full range of benefits and services: Simply visit: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/premier-club/pcweb.nsf/start/splash and you will be requested to enter a Username and Password. For your initial sign-in, please use: * Username: premier * Password: value ************ News ************************************************ <6> IBM Announces DB2 OLAP Version 8.1 and receives good reviews May 2, 2002: IBM Delivers IT Industry's First OLAP Database Software Combining Hybrid Analysis with Data Mining Functionality. InternetWire May 2, 2002: IBM welds OLAP, data mining. By Tom Sullivan, InfoWorld May 1, 2002: IBM Adds Hybrid OLAP in DB2. By Dennis Callaghan, eWeek http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/news/bi.html <7> New IBM WebSphere business integration software lets companies cut costs, accelerate e-business IBM announced new WebSphere infrastructure software to solve today's top I.T. priority: reducing the cost and difficulty of integrating disparate business applications and systems. WebSphere simplifies integration through the industry's most comprehensive e-business platform, with common infrastructure underpinnings and development tools across the portfolio. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/info1/websphere/index.jsp?tab=news/ibmnews/pr020508&S_TACT=102BBW01&S_CMP=campaign <8> IBM Data Management participates in IBM WebSphere Business Integration Announcement Also discussed in the IBM WebSphere Business Integration announcement, IBM's data management portfolio, based on industry-leading DB2 technology, complements and integrates with WebSphere to enable unified, real-time access to structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. A single query can provide access to diverse data, speeding up integration projects. Taking advantage of industry standards such as Web services, XML, SQL, and Java, IBM provides an open information integration infrastructure that is flexible and extensible to meet today's and tomorrow's information requirements. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/integration/solution/ <9> DB2 is again proven to be the top performing database on the market Across a broad range of application and industry benchmarks, DB2 is the leader in performance on a range of hardware and software platforms including PeopleSoft and 4 new DB2 TPC-H benchmarks released in the past several weeks. Check the facts on performance for yourself at: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/highlights/db2leads.html <10> DB2 is the best all around product Bloor research has just released a new report. "DB2 has emerged as the best all around product with particular strengths in business Intelligence applications and for scalability" Read all about how DB2 stacks up against the competition in the Bloor Report on the data management market, available free at: http://www.ibm.com/db2/bloor <11> Borland Kylix and DB2 White Paper Available Borland Kylix is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool providing a thin, cross-platform, database independent, disconnected data-access model (dbExpress) that can be used to quickly develop user-interactive, event-driven database applications for Linux and Windows platforms (Borland Delphi). IBM DB2 Universal Database is an industry-leading database management system used by the world?s largest, most-advanced application developers. It is supported on a wide range of distributed platforms including Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris and Windows operating systems (same code base). By combining Kylix and DB2, you can write applications once and deploy them to run natively on both Linux and Windows without code changes for optimal performance and flexibility. Please visit: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/pubs/papers/kylix/kylix.pdf <12> New Tech Guide Available on DB2 for Linux Trying to decide on an open-source relational database management system versus a commercial database solution such as IBM's DB2 Universal Database? This Technology Guide, written by The Applied Technologies Group, Inc., provides additional insight to help you with your decision-making process, at: http://www7b.software.ibm.com/dmdd/library/techarticle/0202applied/0202applied.html <13> New Tutorial: Apache Web development with IBM DB2 for Linux Learn to develop Web applications using database programming interfaces with IBM DB2* for Linux. This tutorial covers the steps required to use either PHP, Perl or Python languages with DB2 for Linux and Apache. This tutorial helps you: - install and configure DB2 for Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl and Python - identify and include DB2-specific drivers for each language database interface - connect to the DB2 database - create and execute SQL statements Get details at: http://www7b.software.ibm.com/dmdd/library/tutorials/db2linux/db2linux.html <14> IBM eServer Cluster 1300 & DB2 for Linux Performance report Clusters provide an economical way of achieving high performance, by distributing demanding computations across an array of inexpensive hosts. By harnessing low-cost servers with open-source software, Linux clusters extend the price/performance advantages for many high-performance workloads. Using Adobe Acrobat, please visit: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/pubs/papers/cluster1300/cluster1300.pdf <15> Simulating Massively Parallel Processing on Linux Massively parallel processing (MPP) holds the key to making many inexpensive computers work together to solve a large problem. Some problems are very difficult to break into pieces and farm out to a cluster of machines. We are fortunate that relational databases lend themselves to parallelization. Partitioning and clustering are the keys to database scalability. You can get started now with low-cost technologies and refute any argument that "MPP" means "massive purchase price." This article shows you how to get DB2 Extended Enterprise Edition (EEE) Version 7.2 running on Linux on your laptop. Then we?ll explore how to set up two database partitions on a single computer known as multiple logical nodes) and create tables partitioned across these nodes. To read this white paper please visit: http://www7b.software.ibm.com/dmdd/library/techarticle/0203lurie/0203lurie.html <16> Knowledge and Experience Wanted...Share It Through the IDUG Solutions Journal IDUG Solutions Journal is off to another strong editorial year. With our first issue focused on Database Trends & Application Solutions on press, we're making plans for the remainder of our 2002 issues. We're looking for authors who have insights and experiences to share, especially in the areas of Development & Common Practices and Distributed Database & the Internet, which will be the special focuses of our next two issues respectively. To learn more about contributing an article to the IDUG Solutions Journal, contact Executive Editor, Dave Beulke at dbeulke@compuserve.com. Visit http://www.idug.org often for updated details on all educational events and informational resources provided by the International DB2 Users Group. <17> Web Lectures - IBM Life Sciences Web Lecture Series. Ongoing, on demand Web presentations with audio. Customers can learn about key topic areas and familiarize themselves with IBM Life Sciences solutions right from their desktop. Lectures cover key IBM research topics, and issues involving data & knowledge management....Coming soon: lectures on high performance computing and storage. To register for the full lecture series: http://www.ibm.com/solutions/lifesciences/lectures1 <18> IBM Extends DB2 UDB by Announcing More Tools on multiplatforms IBM Extends DB2 UDB by Announcing More Tools for Microsoft Windows, HP-UX, Sun's Solaris Operating Environment, IBM AIX, and Linux. IBM is again extending customers' DB2 UDB solutions on multiplatforms with new tools for DB2 in the distributed environments. The array of new and enhanced tools will optimize DB2 performance, provide new recovery support, perform high speed unload and reorganization, and provide new data edit and query facilities http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/db2imstools/announce.html <19> Migrating to DB2 is easier than ever IBM makes migrating to DB2 easy through a variety of IBM consulting services, tools and products that ensure your switch will be as painless and quick as possible - whether you are looking to do a wholesale migration or integrating your existing system with IBM DB2. Discover today how IBM can make your life easier at http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/migration <20> Announcing the IBM Scholars Program IBM Scholars Program: Helping cultivate the next generation e-business leader Corporate University Relations announces the IBM Scholars Program, a complimentary program that provides faculty and researchers with convenient access to IBM software, hardware and technologies; tutorials and other educational materials; certification; technical support; and much more! This IBM-wide program encompasses existing academic programs within our geographies and business units. The Scholars Program is designed to increase value and reduce confusion among IBM's many higher education programs. For additional information: http://reswat4.research.ibm.com/projects/ur/univrel2.nsf/scholars.htm http://www.ibm.com/university/scholarsprogram ************** Conferences *************************************** <21> International DB2 Users Group(IDUG) Conferences IDUG 2002--North America, 12-16 May 2002, San Diego, CA, USA IDUG 2002--Technical Symposium, 19-20 September 2002, Toronto, ON, Canada IDUG 2002--Europe, 21-24 October 2002, Lisbon, Portugal http://www.idug.org <22> Hot Details on IMS Version 7 and Version 8 plus Hands-on Labs at IMS Technical Conference September 30 - October 3, 2002 in St. Louis, Missouri One of the key focus items at the 2002 IMS Technical Conference is migration. If you are looking to migrate to IMS V7 you'll discover all the new features this release provides including HALDB support, shared queues, and IMS Java support. If you are planning to migrate straight to Version 8 you'll hear from the product experts as to how this new release is focused on e-business enablement, growth, availability, and systems management. Also join us for special hands-on labs focusing on exciting new Tools for IMS Systems/Data Management and Application Development. For more details and to enroll visit: http://www-3.ibm.com/services/learning/conf/us/ims/?c=IBM_DB2Today&N=various&t=aff ================================================================== SOLUTIONS ================================================================== ********** Business Intelligence ********************************* <23> DB2 OLAP Server v8.1 Now Available Provides Many Enhancements DB2 OLAP Server v8.1 provides IBM customers with many new features and performance enhancements including Hybrid Analysis capability, improved parallelism, and the first full release version to include OLAP Miner. Customers will observe greatly improved performance, ease of use features, and the ability to discover new trends and information from their data. http://www.ibm.com/software/db2/db2olap <24> IBM WebSphere Commerce Analyzer Advanced Edition Upgraded with New Functions New function is added to WebSphere Commerce Analyzer Advanced Edition(WCA/Adv) V1.2 with BusinessObjects Commerce Tracker: o Is designed for WebSphere Commerce Suite Pro V5.1 o Answers over 60 key business questions about the user's store o Is easy to install ? Start working right out of the box o Allows easy-to-use viewing of data mining results from any browser o Allows new reports to be built easily by users For more information see: http://www2.ibmlink.ibm.com/cgi-bin/master?xh=xMC4UL5YXLwWY02USenGnN9332&request=announcements&parms=H%5f202%2d103&xfr=N *********** Content Manager ************************************** <25> IBM is first Content Management Vendor to receive validation for Siebel 7 IBM announced that the integration between IBM Content Manager 7 and Siebel 7, the latest release of Siebel eBusiness Applications, has been successfully validated by Siebel Systems. IBM is the first content management software vendor to be integrated with Siebel 7. http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/partners/ae1partners/siebel/ ================================================================== SKILL AND EDUCATION ================================================================== ************* DB2 CERTIFICATION ********************************** <26> DB2 Certification Program -- Registration and Sample Tests For detailed information on the DB2 Universal Database and Business Intelligence, Content Management and Informix certification tracks, including recommended education and sample tests, visit http://www-1.ibm.com/certify/certs/db_index.shtml and select the track you are interested in. Details on the registration process and test enrollment is available on http://www-1.ibm.com/certify/process/check.shtml <27> Get Certified at the IBM Content Management Technical Conference June 17 - 19, 2002, San Diego, CA IBM will be offering Certification exams 440(OnDemand Multiplatform) and 441 (OnDemand iSeries) during the Content Management Technical conference so register now and don't miss out on this special opportunity to get your skills tested. Please continue to check our website for the latest scheduling and pricing information. For more details and to enroll visit: http://www-3.ibm.com/services/learning/conf/us/content/?c=IBM_DB2Today&N=various&t=aff <28> FREE Certification Testing at IBM Data Management Technical Conference September 9 - 13, 2002 in Anaheim, California Looking for a convenient and easy way to gain official recognition of your DB2, BI and Informix product expertise? At the new IBM Data Management Technical conference you can choose from a number of different certification exams and the best part is that the testing is FREE. Just sign up (beginning in mid-May) prior to attending. Watch our Web site for further details. And if you register for this event before July 29th, you can also save $150 off the overall conference fee. Join us September 9-13, 2002 in Anaheim, California for an exciting learning experience. To enroll and get more details visit: http://www-3.ibm.com/services/learning/conf/us/dm/?c=IBM_DB2Today&N=various&t=aff <29> New Certification Tutorials The DB2 Developer Domain has launched six new tutorials specifically designed to help you prepare for the professional certification exam DB2 UDB V7.1 Family Fundamentals Exam (512) which leads to a DB2 User Certification. There is no charge to take advantage of the new or existing tutorials all created to help you improve your DB2 skills. Each of these tutorials takes approximately one hour to complete and can be taken on-line or download as a PDF or zip file. For more information, including a complete listing of tutorials available, visit : http://www.ibm.com/software/db2/skills <30> Free Certification Testing at Multiple Events With all of the upcoming events that have free certification testing, there?s no excuse to put off your certification testing any longer. Many of the below events contain unlimited exams at no cost so plan now to attend. IDUG North America, May 12-16, 2002 in San Diego, CA http://www.idug.org IBM Software Symposium 2002, June 10-14, 2002 in Vienna, Austria http://www.ibm.com/services/learning/conf/europe/sfw_symp/ Data Management Technical Conference, September 9-13 in Aneheim, CA http://www.ibm.com/services/learning/conf/us/dm/index.html Check out the Data Management Skills website at http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/skills for complete information on all certifications available, methods to help you prepare for the exam and links to free assessment exams. <31> New Certification Exam Guide for DB2 Administration All-In-One DB2 Administration Exam Guide (With CD-ROM) by Roger E. Sanders. This authoritative reference offers complete coverage of all material on the DB2 exams. You'll find exam objectives at the beginning of each chapter, helpful exam tips, end-of-chapter practice questions, and photographs and illustrations. The bonus CD-ROM contains practice tests, and hundreds of questions. This guide will help you pass the certification exams, and serve as an on-the-job reference. Published by McGraw-Hill Osborne 01/2002. ISBN: 0072133759. Order it now. http://www.ibm.com/software/data/pubs/certbooks.html <32> Free Voucher for Certification Exam -- Prepare Now for June Test The DB2 Certification Electronic Voucher Promotion for 2002 is being offered again in June to candidates who score 75% or greater on a DB2 assessment exam. You will automatically be sent a voucher to take the final exam for your DB2 Certification at a testing center at no charge, which has a value up to $120. U.S per exam. This offer is valid for VUE, IBM Learning Services or Prometric test centers, depending on preference and geography. 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