(Benedict Fernandes and Kyle Brown) When teams adopt cloud technologies, they often blithely toss out the term workload in technical and project planning discussions. The problem is that this term means different things to people with different roles, leading to disagreement and improper expectation

(Troy L Coleman) Following up on last week’s DB12 for z/OS announcement, I want to discuss the supporting tools, which include the DB2 utilities.

(Vinay Kumar Bommana) Hello Welcome to DB Tutorials. We are going to look at “how to restrict number of active database in DB2?”

(Rafael Victoria-Pereira) Perhaps the most used (and certainly the oldest) tool to execute SQL statements is the green-screen Start Interactive SQL Session command, STRSQL. This command is somewhat similar to the QCMD command in the sense that it provides similar function keys.

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Dave shared information on the IDAA with techniques to justify its savings as well as workload tuning tips to take better advantage of the IDAA. A must-see!

(Rich Diedrich, Jim Diephuis, Susan Gantner, Jeff Minette, Jon Paris, Kody Robinson, Tim Rowe and Paul Tuohy) Application development is a key part of the IBM i businesses. The IBM i operating system is a very modern robust platform to create and develop applications. The RPG language has been aro

(Roman Kharkovski) Not all messaging products deliver the same qualities of services. For example, RabbitMQ does not support transactional handling of messages. This inevitably leads to lost and duplicate data, which may not be a big deal in a monitoring dashboard where few missed or duplicate messa

(Jack Vamvas) During a recent review of backup failure exceptions this error message appeared:

(Sally Fikry and Chris Phillips) The API economy is the transformation driven by connected devices and consumer thirst for compelling brand experiences. APIs act as the digital glue that links services, applications and systems by exposing enterprise services to consumers. At the same time, service-

(Doug Mack) If you’re still using Query/400 heavily in your shop, you probably have come across times where it would have been really nice to know information about those reports, such as: