(Aaron Bartell) In the February 2015 article “Trying on a Ruby Ring,” I talked about doing a small Hello World Ruby app and showed how to invoke an RPG program from Ruby. In March 2015’s article “Sinatra Sings, Ruby Plays,” I introduced you to a very simple web framework named Sinatra.

(Pavan Kristipati) Starting in DB2 LUW version 9, TRUNCATE is supported. This gave ability to quickly get rid of massive amounts of data from tables without worrying about possibility of filling up logs.

(Lockwood Lyon) Every mature IT organization goes through a regular round of disaster recovery (DR) exercises. These are usually legally mandated, required for compliance with standards or part of contracts with outside vendors.

(Robert Catterall) As a DB2 for z/OS system grows and evolves, the value of certain ZPARM parameters should be reviewed to ensure that they are still appropriate in the context of the current environment.

(Jack Vamvas) Question : The row length of the table exceeded a limit of “32677” bytes. can you give me some advice on how to deal with this problem?

(Willie Favero) I have some great news, at least for me it was great news. I was fortunate enough to have another article published in Enterprise Tech Journal a few weeks ago.

(Dave Beulke) A couple of weeks ago I discussed three critical programming performance criteria, where I talked about the importance of DB2 commit scope, data integrity, and programming languages.

(Jane Man and Clement Leung) To create effective, enterprise-ready mobile applications, you need to make the back-end data easier to consume. APIs in IBM DB2 Adapter for z/OS expose DB2 for z/OS functionality to applications.

(Troy L Coleman) In December 2014 I wrote a post titled, “Are Reorgs Still Necessary?” In it I discussed how IBM Easy Tier storage technology may eliminate the need to run REORGs. This week I want to revisit this question, framing the discussion with information from an IBM Redpaper I initially revi

(Jack Vamvas) Following on from 3 ways to identify an expert , I got into a conversation with a colleague and we discussed whether it is possible to be an “expert” but without real world experience. My argument is that real world experience is the real definition of an expert.