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New multiple-event triggers can simplify your SQL trigger development and management.
 Written 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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Robot/CONSOLE eliminates manual monitoring on IBM i.
 Written 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 makes use of variables, arrays, and functions. But can you tell them apart?
 Written 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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Find out by using the Retrieve Product Information (QSZRTVPR) API.
 Written 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 past—the Software Product APIs, which are introduced here.
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Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from The Business Value of DB2 for z/OS: IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator and Optimizer.
 Written 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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INDUSTRY NEWS >>
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Software AG launches Software AG Live, the first cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) suite.
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Tango/04 is proud to announce Version 8 of its flagship monitoring solution.
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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 V9.1.1 offers several scheduling, usability, manageability, and scalability enhancements.
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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 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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