Charlotte Hutchinson, Chris Phillips, and Jack Dunleavy) Integration between IBM API Connect and IBM MQ is vital for reliable messaging. Until now, this integration has not been available for environments that use back-end systems to communicate through MQ.

(Rafael Victória-Pereira) Now that you know that there’s life beyond STRSQL, it’s time to get ready to the meet the new and improved Run SQL Scripts: the Access Client Solutions version. Let’s start by installing this new tool.

(Scott Hayes) 100% of our audience learned something! Sage Advice Part 3 – Predictive Index Impact Analysis – Know Before you Create – extends the performance tuning journey that began with Parts 1 and 2.

(Dave Beulke) I want to thank all my readers for their support and comments this past year. It is your comments and emails that keep me writing, so please keep them coming in the New Year.

(Henrik Loeser) I hope you had a good start into 2017. I am already up and running and accomplished some important tasks. I submitted my presentation proposals for the IDUG DB2 Tech Conference 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal.

(Felipe Knop, Sandeep R. Patil and Larry Coyne) Storage systems must provide reliable and convenient data access to all authorized users while simultaneously preventing threats coming from outside or even inside the enterprise.

(Troy L Coleman) I’ve previously written about RESTful services (here and here), noting how these services will enable data and applications running on DB2 for z/OS to become a strategic component of your enterprise API strategy.

(Ahmed Abbas, Mohab El-Hilaly, and Gihad Abdelhamid) With the emergence of the API economy, service consumption has become easier and more standardized than before. Cloud-native applications are typical consumers of such services through APIs. Online payment is an example of a service that is essent

(Lockwood Lyon) Most organizations consider analytical data and queries to be low priority during a disaster. Clearly, they reason, customer-facing systems, accounting systems, order entry applications, shipping and receiving, and so forth need priority. While big data analytics is nice to have, it

(Martin Lansche) Almost daily we are bombarded with stories in the technical and mainstream press about attacks of computer systems where passwords are stolen and then become available to attackers.