(Bertrand Portier and Edward Calusinski) As organizations look to differentiate in the marketplace, they are increasingly shifting their focus to the cloud as a preferred model for developing and hosting their solutions. The use of application programming interfaces (APIs) in the API economy is acce
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DB2 for z/OS: Getting a Handle on a CPU-Constrained Environment
(Robert Catterall) z/OS systems are famous for their reliability, and part of that story is the ability of z/OS to accommodate surges of application activity: you can pile more and more work onto a z/OS system, and it will keep on trucking, slicing the “pie” of available processing capacity into sma
Locking Event Monitors and Compression
(Jim Reutener) Abby Rosmarin said, “Hard work, determination and talent are key for any successful venture. But sometimes you need that fourth ingredient: dumb luck”.
Always On: Considerations When Adopting the Cloud
(Bertrand Portier and Edward Calusinski) As organizations look to differentiate in the marketplace, they are increasingly shifting their focus to the cloud as a preferred model for developing and hosting their solutions. The use of application programming interfaces (APIs) in the API economy is acce
Programming Standards: Good, Bad, and Ugly
(Brian May) In my day job, I spend a lot of time looking at other people’s code. Helping customers and prospects plan for their modernization efforts is not only what I do, it’s what I love. Whether I’m just doing analysis or building a proof of concept for a customer, I get to interact with differe
The DB2Night Show #164: 8 High-Impact Performance Tuning Tips for DB2 LUW
(Scott) 97% of our audience learned something! Want to make your OLTP databases run faster? Ember offered eight terrific tips and sage advice for getting maximum performance from your transactional databases! Index Read Efficiency, finding problem SQL, finding index solutions, finding bad indexes an
Tuning Big Data Applications — Big Data
(Lockwood Lyon) In today’s commercial information technology systems, larger and larger volumes of data are being gathered and stored. To be able to capture, store, and analyze this data, most enterprises turn to specialized hardware and software solutions.
Programming Standards: Good, Bad, and Ugly
(Brian May) In my day job, I spend a lot of time looking at other people’s code. Helping customers and prospects plan for their modernization efforts is not only what I do, it’s what I love. Whether I’m just doing analysis or building a proof of concept for a customer, I get to interact with differe
The DB2Night Show #164: 8 High-Impact Performance Tuning Tips for DB2 LUW
(Scott) 97% of our audience learned something! Want to make your OLTP databases run faster? Ember offered eight terrific tips and sage advice for getting maximum performance from your transactional databases! Index Read Efficiency, finding problem SQL, finding index solutions, finding bad indexes an
Tuning Big Data Applications — Big Data
(Lockwood Lyon) In today’s commercial information technology systems, larger and larger volumes of data are being gathered and stored. To be able to capture, store, and analyze this data, most enterprises turn to specialized hardware and software solutions.
