(Amit P. Acharya, Tom Bal, Chris Clark, Addison Goering, David Graesser, Angelo Littera, Marcelo Manhaes and Gregory Scott) This IBM Redbooks publication takes you on a hybrid cloud journey with IBM PureApplication® System and Service: from the what, over the why and to the how. Outlining the needs

(Craig S. Mullins) TechTarget conducts an annual IT Salary and Careers Survey regarding salaries for IT technicians and executives, and their most recent salary survey for 2015 shows some heartening results for those of us who toil in the IT ranks.

(Robert Catterall) Having recently posted a blog entry on my use of output from the DB2 for z/OS -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL command, it seems a good time to post a companion entry focused on the -DISPLAY GROUPBUFFERPOOL command.

(Ember Crooks) Performance tuning of BLU databases is an evolving topic at this time. For BLU databases, sort memory cannot be tuned by STMM, and so must be manually tuned.

(Willie Favero) Don’t take the subject line to literally, I’m not making fun of anything or selling something short. However, read on for my opinions about GDGs. In the land of DB2 for z/OS, I don’t care much for their use.

(Alan E Booth, Erhan Ekici, Venkata Gadepalli, Rajeev Gandhi, Addison Goering, Ivan Pryanichnikov, Vincent T Tran and Hendrik Van Run) This IBM Redbooks publication helps you with the integration of IBM PureApplication System and IBM PureApplication Software into an existing data center. This public

(Sam Lennon) For the purposes of this discussion, a client application is a “program” that isn’t running on the IBM i host, but is connecting to it using JDBC, or ODBC, or JT/400, or FTP, or TCP/IP, or some other communications technique.

(Robert Catterall) A couple of weeks ago, I was going over output of the DB2 for z/OS command -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL with a group of people, and one of the meeting participants said words to this effect: “You’ve got some useful formulas and rules of thumb here. Could you write them down for us?”

(Lockwood Lyon) The DBA’s manager still presents strategic plans to the team, and these plans now include designing and implementing big data solutions. The tasks involved in this support will span all three categories of tasks, although this may not be obvious in the beginning.

(Kim May) The Fillmore Group’s public class schedule for the first half of 2016 is complete and in the process of being uploaded to the IBM training website at: