(Lockwood Lyon) Big data applications come with new technologies and, hence, requirements for new areas of staff expertise. Some of these requirements include:

(David Simpson) Beginning in DB2 9, IBM introduced support for On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) built-in functions. The first three functions introduced may be used to rank and number rows in a result table.

(Dave Beulke) The new year always presents great opportunities after the holiday rush and code freeze-thaw of the holiday year-end. Unfortunately the code freeze-thaw can present wonderful opportunities for growth.

(Vijay Bhadriraju) OpenID Connect 1.0 is a simple identity protocol on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. It allows applications to verify the identity of the end-user based on the authentication performed by an Authorization Server, as well as to obtain basic profile information about the end-user in a

(Bill Langston) Do you work in a shop where people still use IBM Query/400 (sometimes referred to as STRQRY or WRKQRY)? You aren’t alone.

(Anna Derbakova) The REST management interface, a new interface to the IBM DataPower Gateway Appliance, is intuitive to learn and easy to navigate. It helps DataPower developers achieve a faster workflow through its modern API and descriptive error messages.

(Lockwood Lyon) Large IT projects rarely exist in a vacuum, and a big data implementation is no different. Big data isn’t simply a large, compressed version of simply business data. Most operational systems of today contain new and complex data types such as large objects (LOBs) that contain audio,

(Craig S. Mullins) Today I am introducing a new series of blog posts here on misunderstood DB2 features and functions. But before I start this blog post I want to emphasize that this is just my opinion. I’m sure many of you have your own ideas of the DB2 features that are most misunderstood.

(Henrik Loeser) Recently I received an interesting question: DB2 and other database systems have a feature to automatically generate numbers in a specified order.

(Kurt Struyf) This month we will be focusing on temporal table design and Archive tables. DB2 11 for z/OS brought many interesting improvements for temporal tables, which will be addressed during the upcoming month. On top of that in gave us archive tables, which we can use for “transparent archivin