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DB2 Magazine E-NewsletterSeptember 22, 2005
DB2 Magazine Email Newsletter 1.IBM News ****SUBSCRIBE TO DB2 MAGAZINE**** Renew your subscription to DB2 Magazine today to make sure you keep
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but a few minutes of your time. ***************************** 1. IBM NEWS * Donated Technology and Services Aid Hurricane Relief IBM is contributing services and equipment to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and other affected states in the wake of the category four hurricane that struck the U.S. Gulf Coast last month. The company is using special software to post the Louisiana state curriculum on a Web site to help teachers in Baton Rouge and in surrounding states support tens of thousands of new students. To help return the region to economic health, IBM is developing a new job post/job search Web site for use by not-for-profit and government agencies trying to find work for those who have lost their jobs. The job site effort is a partnership with the US Chamber of Commerce, local chambers, and not-for-profit groups. The company is also working with the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to respond to emergency health needs and ensure that evacuees have access to prescriptions and care for both chronic illnesses and trauma.
--Learn more about IBM's relief efforts. * IBM Unveils New SOA Software and Services IBM recently announced new software, services, and partner initiatives for deploying service-oriented architectures (SOAs). The announcement includes new and enhanced WebSphere software designed for business process management, plus greater levels of integration between WebSphere, Rational, and Tivoli software. The partner initiative expands the SOA ecosystem --Find out how office-product giant (and DB2 customer) Staples made
SOAs pay off for its multi-channel retailing business. * DB2 Powers Largest OLTP Database Winter Corp. recently announced the winners of its 2005 TopTen Program, a survey of the world's largest and most heavily used databases. For the second year in a row, the Land Registry for England and Wales weighed in with the largest OLTP database in any environment, a 23.1 TB DB2 UDB for z/OS system. Winter TopTen Program participants complete an online questionnaire and run validation scripts to authenticate their results.
--Learn more about this year's winners and milestones.
2. ASKED AND ANSWERED: * Conserving Disk Space
--Read Catterall's advice.
--Browse the archive of technical Q&As for mainframe and Linux, Unix,
and Windows platforms.
--Read DB2 DBA: Thanks for the Memory 3. DB2 MAGAZINE TRIVIA CONTEST * What's the best approach to improving Informix Dynamic Server disk
layout, according to Informix DBA columnist Lester Knutsen?
--Answer the trivia question.
--Get a hint. 4. IBM SKILLS AND EDUCATION NEWS * Certification Strategies: Find the Software You Need It may be possible, in theory, to pass a DB2 certification exam from simply reading a book. But columnist Howard Fosdick questions why anyone would want to when it's easy to get DB2 software—sometimes at no charge. Find out where to look. Browse skills news and updates. * New Blog: Certification News, Sample Questions, and Books Previews Susan Visser, IBM Press Program Manager for DB2 Information Management and former head of the DB2 certification program, provides sample questions (and pointers to the answers) from certification assessment exams, news about certification offers, upcoming book previews and recommendations, and even tips for aspiring authors. --Read the blog. * IBM Certified Solution Designer--DB2 Content Manager v.8.3 Exam This new certification role and exam give content management professionals a chance to validate their skills and demonstrate their proficiency in DB2 Content Manager v.8.3 technology. --Find out more about this exam. * Updated Informix and DB2 Certification Roadmaps Two key certification roadmaps were recently updated to include new offerings and program changes. Certification Roadmaps help candidates define and map out certification paths. The updated roadmaps include DB2 UDB v.8 certification roles and Informix and U2 certification roles.
--Browse the new roadmaps. 5. AT THE BOOKSTORE *Self-Service Linux: Determining Problems and Finding Solutions In this new book, two IBM Linux experts introduce a four-step methodology for identifying and resolving Linux-related system or application problem: errors, crashes, hangs, performance slowdowns, unexpected behavior, and unexpected outputs. The book promises to show how to use Linux's key troubleshooting tools to solve problems and to tap into the Linux community's knowledge. --Find out more about this book. 6. NOW PLAYING AT THE DEVELOPERWORKS DB2 ZONE
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