(Zhao Liu with Chong Feng) The IBM WebSphere DataPower Appliances (referred to as DataPower) is a hardware platform designed to simplify, secure, and accelerate XML, Web services, and Enterprise Service Bus deployments.

(Bert Dufrasne and Jean Iyabi) IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) is a replication management solution that is based on the IBM Tivoli Productivity Center for Replication technology. CSM inherits all the Tivoli Productivity Center for Replication capabilities and continues to provide Copy Services solu

(Carlo Marcoli) To thrive in the API economy, you need to strategize your API approach and create, run, manage, and secure your APIs. With this dedicated focus on APIs, your company can share data and services in an easy-to-consume format.

(Philip Nelson) Db2 V11.1 was released in June 2016, with many new features which have already been covered by IDUG in a number of articles and recordings –

(Lydia Parziale, Oliver Benke, Willie Favero, Ravi Kumar, Steven LaFalce, Cedrine Madera and Sebastian Muszytowski) Regarding online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, IBM z Systems platform, with IBM DB2, data sharing, Workload Manager (WLM), geoplex, and other high-end features, is the widel

(Craig S. Mullins) When last we left our protagonists, the intern had been sent away to learn more about tools and documentation, while his mentor planned for the new database and application that was in the works.

(Craig S. Mullins) Recently I wrote about IBM’s strategy to move customers from DB2 Connect Gateway to DB2 Connect Client. The customers I’ve heard from aren’t happy with this development.

(Ashok Iyengar) Bluemix is IBM’s enterprise-grade cloud development and deployment platform—in other words, Platform as a Service (PaaS). It is hosted on SoftLayer, which is IBM’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

(Craig S. Mullins) When last we left our intern DBA his mentor, the experienced DBA, had sent him off to read the DB2 manuals. What a thankless task!

(Ember Crooks) I get it. The database server is a single point in many environments that have many points at most levels. Therefore any problem that affects more than one point must be the database.