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New Generation Software today announced that it is giving away two-user licenses for QPort Office, its business intelligence product that allows users to access Query/400 assets from Microsoft Office. The move is aimed at alleviating the temptation for System i shops to move to another graphical BI environment, DB2 Web Query, when upgrading from i5/OS V5R3, support for which ends early next year.
NGS unveiled Qport Office about a year and a half ago to give System i shops an alternative to the newly announced DB2 Web Query, which NGS maintains is too expensive and difficult to benefit most System i shops. By acting as a Windows front-end for DB2/400 data, Qport Office allows users to combine their knowledge and investment of Query/400 and Excel to bring i5/OS business intelligence into the graphical age, according to NGS.
NGS is betting that System i shops running i5/OS V5R3 would prefer to not spend the time and effort to install and configure DB2 Web Query prior to the end of support on April 30, 2009. Just the same, the temptation may be there to upgrade from Query/400, considering the compelling BI functionality that IBM delivered with DB2 Web Query.
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IBM released an update Wednesday to patch at least 10 vulnerabilities in its DB2 database management system (DBMS).
The IBM Fix Packs address flaws in DB2 versions 9.1, 9.5 and DB2 Universal Database versions 8.1 and 8.2. The DBMS is affected by SQL injection vulnerabilities, an error that could result in password disclosure and a flaw that could reveal sensitive data.
Danish vulnerability clearinghouse Secunia gave the flaws a “moderately critical” rating and warned that the flaws could be exploited remotely.
“Some have an unknown impact and others can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (denial of service) and disclose potentially sensitive information,” Secunia said in its advisory.
IBM today is taking the wraps off a new line of entry-level mainframes, the System z10 Business Class server. The z10 BC is a cut-down version of the existing z10 Enterprise Class machine, which launched in March 2008 using Big Blue’s quad-core z6 CISC mainframe processor.
It has been a long time since most IT people have thought about IBM as a maker of mainframes, but the company still gets a considerably large portion of its hardware, software, and services sales from mainframes. In fact, some estimates put this as high as half of its sales.
That is why having entry mainframes - while possibly boring to Unix, Linux, and Windows enthusiasts - still matters to Big Blue and the companies that pay what can honestly be called exorbitant amounts of money for mainframes large and small.
The quad-core z6 processor announced with the System z10 server back in March ran at a top speed of 4.4 GHz and was rated at 920 MIPS per core, delivering about 60 per cent more oomph than the dual-core 1.7 GHz CISC processors used in IBM’s System z9 machines. Each core on the z6 chip has 64 KB of L1 instruction cache and 128 KB of L1 data cache, plus 3 MB of L2 cache.
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BEIJING, Sep 23, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — IBM (IBM:International Business Machines, the International DB2 User Group, today announced the first global competition to identify the next generation of software developers. Known as “The Search for the XML Superstar,” the contest will be open to all university students, faculty and professional developers across China, India and Southeast Asia testing knowledge of and skills in XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and database technologies.
“When universities and businesses collaborate, they build the next generation of skilled information technology leaders to create new opportunities, fuel economic growth and solve challenges that improve the human condition,” said Inhi Cho Suh, vice president of IBM Data Management Marketing. “This competition and our collaboration with IDUG is yet another example of our goal to cultivate individuals and communities with experience in innovative XML database technologies in hyper-growth markets such as Southeast Asia, China and India.”
Twenty-five years ago, relational database technology was invented by IBM Research, delivering the first commercially available database software program in the early 1980s. IBM has continued to invest and lead in the delivery of significant innovations in data server technology such as DB2 software with pureXML support to provide a seamless flow of information of both XML and relational data, regardless of format, platform or location.
“This competition is an effective way to bring real world industry experience to students to keep them in touch with IT trends and emerging technologies,” said Min Wang, Assistant Director, School of Software Engineering, Tongji University. “We believe the XML competition will promote this exciting technology among students faster than any textbooks. Participants who benefit from it are finding themselves already one step ahead.”
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IBM last week announced two additions to DB2 Web Query, the graphical business intelligence tool for generating and viewing reports and queries on the i operating system (formerly i5/OS). In September, IBM will deliver a new tool called Report Broker, which automatically distributes reports, and a new software development kit (SDK), which will enable customers and ISVs to integrate DB2 Web Query with existing applications.
DB2 Web Query is a special version of Information Builder’s WebFOCUS software that IBM announced in March 2007 and delivered that September. The software, which enables users to write queries for the DB2 for i (DB2/400) database and view the results in a Web environment through the included Report Assistant, Graph Assistant, and Power Painter components, is intended to replace the green screen Query for iSeries (Query/400) product while providing an on-ramp to more sophisticated business intelligence projects such as online analytical processing (OLAP), data warehousing, and data mining.
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… today announced iReplay(TM), a database workload capture & replay solution for Sybase, Oracle, IBM UBD/DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. An alternative to traditional load simulators and scripting tools, …
Source:Exact Announces iReplay, the SQL Workload Replay Solution for All Major Databases
… Welcome to all things DB2 for z/OS. This is your one stop, your only stop, and your final stop …
Source:A couple of new DB2 9 Product Manuals are availble
… used in the mid-market (e.g., MS SQL, MS Access, MS FoxPro, Providex, Pervasive, Oracle, DB2 and Excel). Data extraction can refresh all data, partial blocks of data (e.g., only …
Source:An Even Easier and Potent ETL Tool for Mid-Size Organizations from DataSelf
… performance oriented wait state monitoring for Oracle and SQL Server, but Confio otherwise supports DB2 and Sybase while DBTuna supports MySQL. And what Confio doesn’t have is this extension …
Source:Trends in web analytics (and performance monitoring)
… key infrastructure milestone in data warehouse management. It is being pitted against Oracle 11g, db2 and Teradata. Vinay Samuel, general manager, APAC, Greenplum said, “We will initially scout enterprise …
Source:Sun s India Strategy for Datawarehouse Appliance