(Craig S. Mullins) Before implementing a database of any kind, a sound model of the data needs to be developed. This process, known as data modeling, requires an analysis of the things of interest to your organization and how those things are related to each other.

(Ted Holt) Which came first: the chicken or the egg? I don’t have time to ponder such trivialities.

(Robert Catterall) “ZPARMs” is a reference to the parameters in the Db2 for z/OS module called DSNZPARM – these are essentially the configuration parameters for a Db2 subsystem.

(Deepa Pargaonkar) PROBLEM: The following error messages might be displayed while adding a Db2 data source by using IBM Cloud Application Business Insights:

(Emil Kotrc) How to automate Db2 for z/OS utility jobs from application programs? Have you considered DSNUTILU stored procedure as a part of DevOps?

(Jun Su Lee) If you prefer to use a disk device as quorum, you can do that for Db2 HADR ( High availability disaster recovery ) and TSA (Tivoli System Automation) configuration.

(Craig S. Mullins) I recently received a question about how to put together a database environment from scratch. This is a quick question that requires an in-depth answer — usually moreso than can adequately be explained over email or texting.

(Peter Hartmann) Sometimes it is useful to generate JCL executable code for //SYSIN via SQL mass operations, e.g. change specific tables from one option to another.

(Adrian Burke and Paul McWilliams) In Db2 for z/OS you can use the profile monitoring capability to monitor or limit resource consumption by distributed database facility (DDF) workloads.

(Craig Mullins) Why have agile development and DevOps techniques been adopted for software development over long-standing techniques like the waterfall approach?