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Redbooks

• A DB2 Enterprise Query Environment - Build it with QMF™ for Windows^®!, SG24-5746-00

  This redbook helps you design and carry out a solution to build an Enterprise Query Environment using QMF for Windows. It discusses specifics for three typical users of this product: database administrators, application developers, and end-users. It describes the WWW functionality and other specifics of the product, such as its capabilities for Business-to-Business and Customer-to-Business applications. The information provided particularly applies to Version 6, Release 1 Refresh of QMF for Windows, Program Number 5655-DB2, for use with the Windows NT^® Operating System.

• Advanced Functions and Administration on DB2 Universal Database™ for iSeries, SG24-4249-03

  This redbook is unique in its detailed coverage of DB2 UDB for iSeries advanced functions. It is intended for programmers, analysts, and database designers who intend to develop applications for the DB2 UDB for iSeries relational database system, which is integrated into the operating system available on the iSeries server. The purpose of the redbook is to provide suggestions, guidelines and practical examples about when and how the advanced functions offered by DB2 UDB for iSeries can be effectively used.

• A Fast Path to AS/400^® Client/Server Using AS/400 OLE DB Support, SG24-5183-00

  If you have ever wanted to develop the Microsoft^® Windows programs that work with the iSeries system, you will want to learn about the iSeries OLE DB support. It provides a tremendous improvement over previously used techniques. Two of the key considerations that the iSeries OLE DB support addresses are ease of application development while still providing acceptable performance. This redbook gives a broad understanding of the OLE DB architecture and how it can be used to access iSeries resources.

• AS/400 Remote Journal Function for High Availability and Data Replication, SG24-5189-00

  This redbook provides suggestions, guidelines, and practical examples about when and how to efficiently use the remote journal function provided by the i5/OS operating system. The book is intended for system administrators, high availability specialists, and independent software vendors (ISVs). It specifically focuses on their needs to implement a high availability solution for the iSeries server. However, before reading this book, you must be familiar with journal function concepts.

• Cross-Platform DB2 Stored Procedures: Building and Debugging, SG24-5485-01

  This redbook is intended for DB2 application developers who are familiar with Structured Query Language (SQL) and stored procedures, and who want to learn about developing stored procedures in the SQL Procedures language, as well as using and exploring the Stored Procedure Builder (SPB). This redbook particularly applies to Version 6 of DB2 UDB Server for OS/390^®, for iSeries, and for distributed platforms, Version 5 of DB2 Server for OS/390, and other current versions and releases of IBM products.

• DB2 UDB for AS/400 Object Relational Support, SG24-5409-00

  Learn to efficiently use Universal Database (UDB) functions provided by the iSeries database with the suggestions, guidelines, and examples in this redbook. This redbook is intended for programmers, analysts, and database administrators. It focuses on the need to take the database applications beyond traditional numeric and character data to images, video, voice, and complex documents. By reading this redbook, you gain a broad understanding of DB2 UDB for iSeries implementation that you can use for building a new generation of multimedia and Web-enabled database applications.

• DB2 Universal Database for iSeries Administration: The Graphical Way on V5R3, SG24-6092-00

  This redbook presents an overview of all V5R2 iSeries Navigator functions to manage and administer DB2 UDB for iSeries. It serves as a companion guide for the database administrator to use DB2 UDB for iSeries. This redbook includes the latest announced features in V5R3 that iSeries Navigator provides for the database administrator of DB2 UDB for iSeries.

  
• Integrating DB2 Universal Database for iSeries with Microsoft ADO .NET, SG24-6440-00

  This redbook shows customers how to use ADO.NET effectively to harness the power of DB2 UDB for iSeries, showing examples, best practices, pitfalls, and comparisons between the different ADO.NET providers.

  
• Modernizing IBM eServer™ iSeries Application Data Access - A Roadmap Cornerstone, SG24-6393-00

  Many customers are in the process of modernizing their database definition and database access. This redbook will help you understand how to reverse engineer a DDS-created database and provides you with tips and techniques for modernizing applications to use SQL as the database access method.

  
• Stored Procedures, Triggers and User Defined Functions on DB2 Universal Database for iSeries, SG24-6503-01

  This redbook includes the latest announced features in V5R1 and V5R2 on stored procedures, triggers and user-defined functions. You will find suggestions, guidelines, and practical examples about how to effectively develop DB2 UDB for iSeries stored procedures, triggers and user-defined functions.

  
• Using AS/400 Database Monitor and Visual Explain to Identify and Tune SQL Queries, REDP0502

  The purpose of this redbook is to help you understand the basics of identifying and tuning the performance of Structured Query Language (SQL) statements using DB2 Universal Database for AS/400. DB2 UDB for AS/400 provides a comprehensive set of tools for helping technical analysts tune SQL queries. The Database Monitor (DB Monitor) and Operations Navigator Visual Explain are both described in this redbook.

  This redbook presents a series of tips and techniques based on DB Monitor and Visual Explain that can be used to demonstrate how to get the most out of both DB2 UDB for AS/400 and query optimizer when using SQL. You must be aware that usage of DB Monitor is technically demanding. IBM offers Learning Services courses on database tools and analysis to help you.

Web sites

• Browse resources DB2 UDB for iSeries

  This site provides information to help you fully leverage DB2 UDB for iSeries, including the self-study courses you can take over the Internet.

• Data Discovery and Query Builder

  The IBM Data Discovery and Query Builder product makes time-intensive, costly and complex searches simple. Making use of industry-leading Web serving and data storage technologies such as WebSphere^® and DB2 Universal Database, Data Discovery and Query Builder is a Web-based framework that helps users query broad categories of data and identify correlations. By giving users the ability to construct complex queries without complex languages or user interfaces, Data Discovery and Query Builder lets users spend more time analyzing and identifying correlations between and within data sets rather than manually searching through records or requiring the intervention of a database administrator.

  
• DB2 Universal Database for iSeries home page

  This site offers information about iSeries products, tips, and concepts. These pages are being updated constantly; turn to this resource for the latest information. To reach the DB2 UDB for iSeries pages, click the Products link and then click the DB2 UDB for iSeries link.

• The SQL Reference for Cross-Platform Development

  This site enables you to develop SQL applications that are portable across the DB2 UDB Family, including DB2 Universal Database for z/OS^® and OS/390 Version 7, DB2 UDB for iSeries Version 5 Release 2, and DB2 Universal Database for Linux^®, UNIX^®, and Windows Version 8.1.

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