(Jack Vamvas) Question: I was reviewing messages in db2diag.log and identified some recurring ADM5530W NOT LOGGED INITIALLY messages

(Pavan Kristipati) Here is an interesting challenge I faced recently. I was going to replace (rebuild) a view with new DDL and I got error code SQL0551N which meant I didn’t have authorization to do so. How could this happen?

(Denis Guillemenot) Learn how to use wsadmin introspection with Jython to easily retrieve Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) metrics for IBM WebSphere Application Server. In this tutorial, IBM Tivoli Performance Viewer is used as a model for performance reporting. A high level review of PMI

(Troy L Coleman) If you work on the mainframe using z/OS and haven’t heard of RESTful APIs, you need to wake up and smell the coffee. Seriously, even though RESTful APIs are still a fairly new thing, they’re already essential.

(Ember Crooks) I’ve run across a few strange SQL statements lately, and while the mistakes they make are not the most impactful, I thought I’d share how I think they could be better written.

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How Classic Table Reorganization using Temporary Tablespace cannot be stopped.

(Craig S. Mullins) Partitioned table spaces have been with us in the world of DB2 forever, but even as we embark on moving to Universal table spaces, there still exists some confusion “out there” in terms of the behavior of partitioning…

(Gary Bist) A business process, which is structured, is repeatable, and seldom changes. A case application, which is a dynamic, unstructured process, can be altered at run time by a person selecting the tasks that are most appropriate to the situation. Both types of processes are supported in IBM Bu

(Henrik Loeser) Right now I am working on a side project to hook up the Watson Dialog Service on Bluemix with dashDB and DB2. The idea is to dynamically feed data from DB2 into a conversation bot.

(John Maenpaa) Why do we have routines in DB2? They allow us to include custom functionality inside our databases. But why do we need them? Should we use them? In the modern days of application-centric development, many developers tend to think of databases as simply a place to keep their informatio