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TechTip: Simplify and Centralize Your SQL Triggers

New multiple-event triggers can simplify your SQL trigger development and management.

kent milligan 117x117Written by Kent Milligan

As the utilization of SQL triggers continues to rise, some developers are being challenged by the fact that they must define a separate SQL trigger for each database event they want to associate with a trigger. Consider a developer who wants to use SQL triggers to ensure that any Insert or Update operation against the customer table always stores the company name value with all uppercase characters. In this situation, the developer would have to create two triggers: one trigger for the Insert event and one for the Update event.

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Partner TechTip: Monitor Messages and Resources Automatically

Robot/CONSOLE eliminates manual monitoring on IBM i.

ChuckLosinski 116x116Written by Chuck Losinski

Our customers love that Robot never calls in sick, takes a vacation, or has a bad day. An ideal employee! Here are six ways Robot/CONSOLE automatically monitors your messaging and resources with system availability issues.

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PHP for RPG Programmers: Variables, Arrays, and Functions

PHP makes use of variables, arrays, and functions. But can you tell them apart?

david shireyWritten by David Shirey

In my last column, we talked about some of the special operator symbols that PHP uses, which can be really confusing when you read PHP unless you're familiar with them. Remember what they were? Remember the -< operator? Really, you do? That's so sad then because there is no such operator (at least as far as I know, although I would hate to put any serious money on it; PHP operators seem to just come up out of the cracks).

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The API Corner: Just What Release Am I On?

Find out by using the Retrieve Product Information (QSZRTVPR) API.

bruce viningWritten by Bruce Vining

A question that seems to come up on a regular basis is "How can a program tell what release level of the operating system it's running on?" To answer this question, we'll look at a category of system APIs that many of you may not have reviewed in the pastthe Software Product APIs, which are introduced here.

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Revolution in IBM DB2 Performance: IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator

Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from The Business Value of DB2 for z/OS: IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator and Optimizer.

Ruiping LiWritten by Ruiping Li, John Campbell, Namik Hrle, Surekha Parekh, Terry Purcell, and Wolfgang Hengstler

Business analytics plays a crucial role in today's workplace. The performance and cost of the DB2 Analytics Accelerator opens up unprecedented opportunities for enterprises to make use of the data on the IBM System z platform. Customers have seen dramatic improvement in the response times of qualifying queries in some real, production-sized benchmarks. Running DB2 Analytics Accelerator on System z can result in some significant reductions in CPU usage. Of course, individual results will vary and depend on many other factors.

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Software AG Launches Software AG Live: Agile and Integrated for the Digital Enterprise

Software AG launches Software AG Live, the first cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) suite.

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Tango/04 Introduces All-New Cloud-Ready, iPad-Compatible Version of Its Leading Monitoring Solution

Tango/04 is proud to announce Version 8 of its flagship monitoring solution.

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IBM Platform Symphony for Power V6.1

Platform Symphony for Power V6.1 enables scalable, high-performance grid services for parallel compute- and data-intensive analytic applications.

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IBM Platform LSF V9.1 Family of Products for AIX and Linux Improves Performance, Scalability

IBM Platform LSF V9.1.1 offers several scheduling, usability, manageability, and scalability enhancements.

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IBM Platform Cluster Manager - Standard Edition for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

IBM Platform Cluster Manager - Standard Edition for POWER V4.1 enables system administrators to manage a complex cluster as a single system by automating deployment of the operating system and software components.

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IBM SmartCloud Entry for Power bundle V3.1 Helps You Quickly Implement Entry Cloud Capabilities

IBM SmartCloud Entry for Power bundle, V3.1 is a multi-platform private cloud solution that enables data center managers to quickly deploy web-based self-service provisioning of virtualized workloads.

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