DB2 Magazine's 1996 launch coincided with the beta program for IBM's DB2 Universal Database (UDB), which combined DB2 version 2 with DB2 Parallel Edition[1] and is the precursor of the hybrid XML-relational DB2 9.
Over the past decade, the focus of the magazine's technical articles, primarily written by DBAs, developers, consultants, and other industry experts, has expanded to include topics such as business intelligence and analytics, content management and information discovery, and information integration.
In May, 2007 DB2 Magazine launched a community wiki as part of a major site redesign.
The community wiki is intended to provide a place for readers to share tips and tricks for working with IBM information management software.
The wiki's mission is "to gather DB2, Informix, U2, Cloudscape and other IBM information management know-how and make it available to the DB2 Magazine community."