(Pavan Kristipati) I learned something interesting recently and I wanted to share in this blog post.

(Troy L Coleman) I recently worked with a customer who hadn’t been using the PARALLEL parameter for REORG TABLESPACE. They’d set the LISTDEF parameter at the database level, which qualifies a large number of table spaces with hundreds of partitions per table space.

(John W. Alcorn and Latha Sivakumar) IBM Business Monitor dashboards provide insight into the performance of your business based on events sent from your applications. In Part 1, you learned which IBM products offer built-in business event emission instrumentation.

(agentdb2) Let us talk about the latest announcement for DB2 UDB 11.1. The offering was announced April 2016. This offering is based on latest trends in Big Data, Cloud, Analytics, IOT and of course Startups.

(Klaas) EVERYBODY (100%) in our audience learned something! John and Paul did an excellent job on explaining what a REST interface is and how to quickly and securely create one with a new (free) product called z/OS Connect. Do you want to know what that is?

(Jacek Rafalak and Michal Bialecki) This week we are featuring a presentaiton given at the IDUG EMEA conference in Dublin. Jacek and Michal discuss the importance of paying attention to SQL code in a higly complex and active environment.

(Craig S. Mullins) I have the absolute pleasure of being able to co-present on a couple of great DB2 topics with two very knowledgeable and great speakers at this year’s North American IDUG conference in Austin, TX.

(Ember Crooks) Sometimes a client calls for help with a performance problem. On one particular Tuesday, a client called about a long-running query. Actually they basically said “What’s wrong with DB2? my query is running long! Are there lock timeouts happening?”

(Jenifer Servais) The digital frontier. It’s the voyage of many enterprises as companies explore new and different ways to reach clients. Companies seek to build applications to engage clients, provide rich information for a more personalized experience, and go after a broader community.

(Willie Favero) Everyone at sometimes wish is DB2 for z/OS would only do something… There is always an operation , a feature, a function, a keyword that you wish was part of the product. But what can you do? You’re only one person.