I have one final set of book recommendations that I'll blog about.  These titles are largely topics that do not directly relate to our IBM Information Management products, but instead cover other IBM products or general topics.  Once again if you feel that... 0 0 116

This document will show a technique on how to alternate your page header in a IBM Report Studio report. This is most effective when the report is published to PDF.

This document will show the best way to create a multi-tab report veiw in the IBM Cognos 8 Portal.

Yup, batch. The stuff that has been around on the mainframe a lot longer than I have. It's the process many of us love to hate and it seems to fit the old adage "can't live with it, can't live without it". So, here's my question.

Well, it's Friday and continuing on with my latest tradition, it's once again time to publish Kathy's guest blog post covering the latest and greatest Optim news... Enjoy!!!!

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Yup, you read that correctly. It's never to early to start planning for your upgrade to the bigger and better DB2 for z/OS. There is another new release of DB2 on the horizon, DB2 10 for z/OS. With every new DB2 comes you migration/fallback PTFs; that stuff you apply to your existing system so everyone plays well together.

Translated this means:  Books: Enterprise Content Management, Information Integration, Master Data Management, and Data Warehousing.    I need help with today's list of books!  I need better recommendations for the Enterprise Content Management area and the Data... 0 2 219

Interoperability and standards are the latest buzzwords in the healthcare industry today. Use of standards is key to giving hospitals and doctors the capability to interoperate to share patient records better. IBM Research has been investigating the healthcare industry's evolution of standards, including the IHE and HL7 standards. This article offers a brief introduction to these standards and protocols, and it offers a scenario of an IBM DB2(R) pureXML(R) solution that follows the IHE QED protocol.

This article discusses the storage mechanisms of IBM FileNet Content Manager and describes how to effectively use storage areas and storage policies with IBM FileNet P8 applications. It also discusses storage farming strategies to distribute I/O load and to provide for continuous storage availability. Finally, it discusses storage area state transitions and what to do when a storage area reaches its size limit.

This document will help assist any installation issues that might occur while installing, configuring andusing IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboard FP1 or IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboard FP2.

In addition to the books listed in my previous post , I also have these books.  Right now they are in a separate list... and for the Certification Study Guides, even on a different tab than the rest of the DM books.  I wonder if this is the best way to present... 0 0 359

 I hope you are aware that we have a Bookstore website where we showcase the books that are related to IBM's Information Management products.  Nicole from my team is in the process of redesigning the site and has asked me to update the content.  I'm glad we're... 0 0 266

This document describes a technique that can be used to display dates as the measure values in a crosstab.

The DB2Night Show Episode 14: 12 March 2010 Back by popular request, the DB2Night Show is doing another CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS episode wherein a live performance health check will be performed for a real DB2 LUW production database. If you would like to see... 0 0 159

This document will provide guidelines to using Calculation Accounts.

This document details an optional switch which may be used to make the display areas dynamically re-size to meet the demands of the wider data.

This document details an optional setting which may be used to have a report return data within a range regardless if the From value is greater than the To.

I've been posting information about the DB2 Certifications in the past couple of weeks and am very pleased with the interaction I've been receiving on several LinkedIN groups that I'm a member of.  The two most active groups that I posted information in were... 0 2 199

This document will provide guidelines on architecture and server sizing for IBM Cognos Controller 8.5.