UK DB2 User Group Minutes, June 2005

These are the presentations from the June 2005 meeting of the UK DB2 User Group, which was held at IBM Southbank in London on June 23rd.

IBM Announcements	Mike Skidmore, IBM	zipped Powerpoint, 121Kb
Experiences using Federation to Access the DB2 Family	Sathyaram Sannasi, KAM Technology	zipped Powerpoint, 49Kb
DB2 for LUW Monitoring & Tuning Primer	Phil Nelson, ScotDB Ltd.	zipped Powerpoint, 320Kb
DB2 LUW for Smarties Part 1	Maria Sarikos, CA	Zipped Powerpoint, 88Kb
Data Sharing Performance & Tuning Considerations	Maria Sarikos, CA	zipped Powerpont, 59Kb
Dynamic SQL and Performance - A Contradiction in Terms?	Hans Peeters, Data Base Solutions AG	zipped Powerpoint, 133Kb

Addtional Information

At the meeting, Phil Nelson reported that a new Fixpack (9a) was due to be released for DB2 UDB V8. Since then Ian Phillips from IBM has kindly provided the following important information for DB2 UDB Users:

Alert on DB2 Universal Database Security Vulnerability
Some DB2 Universal Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Version 8 (DB2 UDB) products contain a security vulnerability. The vulnerable DB2 UDB Version 8.1 products are at service levels starting with 8.1.4 through 8.1.9 (inclusively). The vulnerable DB2 UDB Version 8.2 products are at service levels starting with 8.2.0 through 8.2.2 (inclusively). To close the vulnerability, the DB2 UDB service organization is releasing updated FixPaks for DB2 UDB Version 8 products. The following FixPaks are being made available on the DB2 UDB Service and Support web site www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/support/:
FixPak 6c for DB2 UDB v8.1
FixPak 7b for DB2 UDB v8.1 and 8.2
FixPak 8a for DB2 UDB v8.1 and 8.2
FixPak 9a for DB2 UDB v8.1 and 8.2

Our thanks to Ian for providing this information.