(Dave Beulke) With all the outside activities with friends and family, summer vacations are always wonderful. Being outside at the lake enjoying the warm weather and cooling off in the lake are a wonderfully relaxing great times.

(Robert Catterall) I have recently received a number of questions pertaining to DB2 for z/OS database access threads, or DBATs. DBATs are threads used in the execution of SQL statements that are sent to DB2 from network-attached applications (i.e., from DRDA requesters that access DB2 for z/OS by wa

(Rackley Boren, Eric Ducos, Ge Gao, Thalia Hooker, Matthew Oatts, Paul Pacholski, Dennis Parrott and Claudio Tagliabue) The IBM Coach Framework is a key component of IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) that enables custom user interfaces (UI) to be easily embedded within business process solutions. D

(Troy L Coleman) DB2 11 introduced a powerful feature that allows you to set special registers for remote applications by creating a profile in the profile tables.

(Ember Crooks) My background comes largely from the physical DBA world, though I’ve gained logical DBA skills over the years. Any reasonably mature IT organization will have a DBA at some level or another review SQL and DDL before it is implemented in production.

(Andrew Chan) IBM Website Monitoring is a comprehensive solution for website probing and alerting. This software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering consists of:

(Roman Kharkovski) I often meet customers who have hundreds of large applications running on WebSphere. If you move those large applications into microservices you may easily end up with several hundreds or even thousands of microservices.

(Rafael Victoria-Pereira) This article continues the date-related functions discussion, introducing a few more simple but extremely useful SQL functions: DAYOFWEEK, WEEK, QUARTER, DAYOFYEAR, and MIDNIGHT_SECONDS. Do you have time for some date fun?

(Jack Vamvas) Question: I’d like write a sql statement to loop through an INSERT statement and increment with a count. The purpose is to create some test tables for load testing.

(Doug Anderson, Mike Biere, Linus Olson and Shawn Sullivan) IBM DB2 Query Management Facility for z/OS provides a zero-footprint, mobile-enabled, highly secure business analytics solution. IBM QMF V11.2.1 offers many significant new features and functions in keeping with the ongoing effort to broade