(Troy L Coleman) If you have a client application using Parallel Sysplex workload balancing (WLB), you’ll want to take advantage of session token support in DB2 12. But before I get into this new feature, some quick background.

(Scott) 92% of our audience learned something! If you want to earn DB2 LUW V11 IBM Certifications, there are no better teachers than the professionals that are writing the exams and Certification Study Guides!

(John Ghrist) Using IBM Watson Analytics for extending an enterprise’s ability to understand its own data doesn’t happen automatically. Datawatch, an ISV that offers software for facilitating Watson Analytics’ use, explains how it can be done with its Monarch product.

(Sajan Kuttappa) In-memory computing has gained a lot of traction as a great option to address the demands of use cases like real-time analytics. According to estimates, close to 75% of the use cases for in-memory computing are for real-time analytics.

(George Baklarz) It’s inevitable that you see a couple of DB2 Fix Packs every year and place the readme document in a drawer somewhere for perusal later when you are not busy. While the Fix Packs may contain fixes (well that is what they are primarily meant for, right?), there are sometimes a few en

(Henrik Loeser) Recently, I was a coach at a hackathon in Germany. Students were tasked to build solutions for a given topic and the solution had to include a chatbot based on the IBM Watson Conversation service.

(Dr. Azeddine Elhassouny, Dr. Le Nhan Tam, Dina Sayed, Bjoern Steffens and Lak Sr) The Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services series is a seven-volume collection that introduces IBM Watson cognitive computing services. The series includes an overview of specific Watson services wit

(Kim May) I’ve been pondering what this announcement means all day…is IBM trying to become the most altruistic database software vendor?

(Mark Gillis) OK, I bent the truth slightly. Lied, if you like. Mis-spoke if you’re a politician. I was going to go for a positive spin this time, but I’ve got one more grumpy negative subject to get off my chest first.

(Jack Vamvas) DB2 LUW write suspend state is commonly checked during a splitting of mirrored database.I’d like the flexibility of checking via the db2pd monitoring tool, How can I get the output in db2pd to check if a DB2 database is in the write suspend state?