(Lockwood Lyon) Some companies have been slow to acquire big data applications. They discovered that modern hardware platforms and database management systems were more than adequate for most of their business analytics needs.

(Jack Vamvas) Question: I attempted to complete a db2start on on a DB2 10.1.5 on Linux recently and this was the error returned.The DB2 instance did not start

(Kim May) For Baltimore and Mid-Atlantic area data management customers, The Fillmore Group is excited to announce a “DB2 101” luncheon event at award-winning Woodberry Kitchen in Baltimore on Thursday, April 21, 2016, from 11am – 2pm.

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How To Find Recent Reorganization date-time of a Table Solution:

(Anna Derbakova) This tutorial series explains how to use the REST management interface to manage and monitor the configuration of IBM DataPower Gateway appliances. It describes the functions, structure, and capabilities of the REST management interface, as implemented in firmware release 7.2.0.0.

(Eric Berg) I had a chance to reconnect with my colleague Cesar Saavedra who recently attended the InterConnect conference in Las Vegas. If you weren’t there, or weren’t able to follow along with the livestream, you can find all the conference highlights, recordings, and materials right here.

(Dave Beulke) Last week was part 1 of the discussion on DB2 Commit Scope considerations found here. This week the DB2 commit scope programming considerations discussion continues with batch process considerations.

(Troy L Coleman) DB2 11 introduced autonomous procedures, which are native SQL procedures that commit independently from the calling application. They execute under their own units of work, separate from the calling program.

(Rafael Victoria-Pereira) The previous article in this series discussed a set of scalar functions you can use to convert data to its representation in string format. Once this data is in string format, you can use it with text information from your files in order to create descriptions or other text

(Kim May) I am excited to announce two upcoming events The Fillmore Group will deliver in April. Stay tuned for dates and locations!