1. Employ Best Practices When Integrating Disparate Data

Disparate data can inhibit value creation, but data integration best practices allow organizations to fully leverage the inherent value in their information resources. By John Gay Silos of disparate data plague many companies. The reaso

2. Securing Your Data Warehouse

Thwart the threat of unauthorized internal and external access.

3. Focus on Database Management

If I were to ask you how the System/36 and native AS/400 differ, you’d probably mention that the AS/400 lets you define files externally to programs. You might also mention that DB2/400 logical files are more powerful than S/36 alternate indexes

4. Data Warehousing and the Web

Every day, e-businesses collect huge amounts of data from their e-commerce Web sites. The raw data alone has little value, so how can an e-business effectively leverage the data from its site? It can identify and collect the information that managem

5. QMF Comes to the AS/400

Version 7.1 of Query Management Facility (QMF) for Windows for AS/400 will become generally available on September 29 of this year. Are you excited? If not, should you be?QMF is not new; it's been around since 1983 in the IBM mainframe world. QMF for

6. Opening Up Data Warehouses

Data warehouses are learning to open up and communicate.

7. Data Warehousing: The Secret of Your Success

Pass it along: Data warehousing gives your users all the information they need.

8. Divide and Conquer

With LPAR, an AS/400 divided can stand--and triumph.

9. Focus on Data Warehousing

William Inmon is credited as the “father of data warehousing” because he wrote a book called Building the Data Warehouse in 1993. In this book, he defined a data warehouse as “a subject oriented, integrated, non-volatile, time variant

10. Making a List, Checking It Twice

Data warehouse designers: Gather ye (information) rosebuds while ye may.

11. Creating Real-time Interfaces for Data Warehousing and Reporting Applications

Real-time data replication is easy with the right tools!

12. Data Warehousing on the AS/400

How would you like to have all the crucial information about your customers and your business available when you need it in a format you can use? I'll bet data warehousing is just what you're looking for. Data warehousing is about knowing your custom

13. Handling File and Data Area Record Locks

I'd like to propose solutions to two problems I've experienced with file record locks and data area locks. The first problem involves how users typically respond to file record locks. After the record wait time has expired on a file record lock, the