Sources Events Links

• Systems and software product documentation:
  • Publications
  • Public Information and Services Main Menu
  • IBM books online: Book Shelves
  • Redbooks
    • all DB2 redbooks
    • all SAP rebooks
    • all Linux redbooks
  • Information Management Book Store
  • Online ordering publications
  • IBM Press is a publishing partnership between IBM and Pearson and is the official publisher of IBM books for professionals and academia.
• Magazines and journals:
  • Technical Journals
  • IBM Data Management magazine and curent issue
• Announcements:
  • DB2 Announcements in 2011 and 2012
• IBM FTP Server
  • DB2 fixes and more
  • DB2 Tools
• e-Learning:
  • DB2 UDB Family e-Learning
  • Data Warehousing e-Learning
• IBM Service Contacts, General contact information, Shopping Contact, General Customer Support,  Technical Support, Hardware Support, Software Support, …
  • Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein
  • United Kingdom, Ireland
  • Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg
  • France
  • Italy
  • wordwide

• IDUG
  • EMEA Conference 2013, Barcelona/Spain, October 13-18, 2013: http://www.idug.org/p/cm/ld/fid=273
  • DB2 Tech Conference Presentation Archive: http://www.idug.org/p/cm/ld/fid=96
• SHARE
• GUIDE SHARE Europe and GUIDE SHARE Germany

• IEEE Xplore digital library – delivering full text access to the world’s highest quality technical literature in engineering and technology
• Database Journal
• DBA Magazin (Sponsored by BMC): DB2, Oracle, IMS, Data Warehouse etc.
• DBTA – database trends and application
• InformationWeek
• Robert Seiner’s Data Administration Newsletter and Book Reviews
• Computerwoche Schwerpunkthema DB2 (german only)

developerWorks – DB2 Articles
developerWorks – DB2 Tutorials
Redbooks – DB2 and Information Management
DB2 Connect
DB2 Everyplace
DB2 for Linux UNIX and Windows
DB2 for z/OS
DB2 Query Management Facility
Information Management – DB2 Alphablox
Information Management – DB2 Cube Views
Information Management – DB2 ImagePlus for z/OS
Information Management – DB2 Net Search Extender
Information Management – DB2 Server for VSE VM
Information Management – DB2 Spatial Extender for Linux UNIX and Windows
Optim Database Administrator for DB2 for Linux UNIX and Windows
Optim Query Tuner for DB2 for Linux UNIX and Windows
Optim Query Tuner for DB2 for z/OS
Optim Query Workload Tuner for DB2 for z/OS
Tivoli – IBM Tivoli Command Center for DB2plex
Tivoli – IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2
Tivoli – IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 on z/OS
Tivoli – IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Expert on z/OS
Tivoli – IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2 Performance Monitor on z/OS
Tivoli – IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2plex

• Doug Nadel (Tools and Toys)
• Gilbert Saint-Flour
• Mark Zelden MVS Utilities
• Oberoi-Net: Links for Mainframe Programmers
• Die S/390 Page:
  • S/390 Home
  • S/390 Glossary
  • S/390 Whitepapers
• CBTTAPE.ORG
• Mainframes.com
• Planet MVS
• Xephon Archiv bei CBTTAPE
• Oberoi Links for Mainframe Programmers
• Mainframe Programming
• Storage Administration z/OS Pocket Reference by DTS Software

• Perl:
  • Perl for System Administrators (Book)
  • Perl CD Bookshelf
• Java and JDBC
  • Oracle/Sun Java Tutorial
• PL/I:
  • Robin’s PL/I Page
  • IBM PL/I Support
• Cobol:
  • Cobol Center
  • IBM Cobol Support
  • Cobol Report
• REXX:
  • REXX Family
• IBM DeveloperWorks samples

• Michael Spoden’s DB2 SQL PL Guide
• JCC SQL Standards Page
• Derrick Brashear’s „SQL Reference Page„
• Graeme Birchall’s „DB2 UDB Cookbook„
• Xephon archive

• CDB – Automated DB2 Utility Solutions
• SEG – Software Engineering: Software Products for DB2 aministration and SQL performance optimization
• CA Data Management Products
• Cogito EZ DB2 product series
• BMC Systems Management Instrumentarien (e.g. Patrol) and Database Tools
• ASG – Allen Software Group mit den TMON Monitoren
• Responsive Systems Bufferpool Analytic Tools and more
• Metasuite - ETL Tools especially for DB2 dataware houses
• MPBÂ – Database Consulting und Database Products
• InfoDesign – Administrations Tool for SAP R/3 DB Server DB2 z/OS
• Quest -Â Datasbase Tools and Toad World
• Embarcadero – Database Tools for DB2, Oracle and other DBMS’s
• DbVis (via DBSC) – DbVisualizer Low Cost Database Access Tool (all common DBMS’s)

• DanL Database Consulting
• YL&AÂ Yevich, Lawson and Associates Inc.
• IT Toolbox’ DB2 Blog (Thanx to Willie Favero)
• Craig Mullins Home Page, author of ”DB2 Developer´s Guide”
• Dave Beulke