(Troy L Coleman) While “autonomic computing” may sound like a futuristic term, it’s been around awhile — at least as it relates to DB2. IBM has supported autonomic function in DB2 for z/OS since the release of Version 9 in 2007.

(Dennis Sosnoski) Actor applications require a different style of programming from the linear approach used for single-threaded applications. Go deeper into structuring systems in terms of actors and messages from Scala code, using the Akka toolkit and runtime.

(Pavan Kristipati) One of the new features in DB2 10.5 is ‘Expression-Based Indexes’. This gives ability to create index on data that is not stored in a table. For expression-based indexes, the result of the expression is stored in the index.

(Mike Cain) My Center of Excellence team mate and Wizard of Oz Query Optimization Rob Bestgen has an important message to share…

(Joe Pluta) I use Rational Developer for the IBM i (RDi) a lot. I use it every working day, and I can’t imagine trying to program without it. On those occasions when I am forced to rely on SEU, I find my fingers flailing away at key combinations that I use almost without

(Pavan Kristipati) One of the new features in DB2 10.5 is ‘Expression-Based Indexes’. This gives ability to create index on data that is not stored in a table. For expression-based indexes, the result of the expression is stored in the index.

(Mike Cain) My Center of Excellence team mate and Wizard of Oz Query Optimization Rob Bestgen has an important message to share…

(Joe Pluta) I use Rational Developer for the IBM i (RDi) a lot. I use it every working day, and I can’t imagine trying to program without it. On those occasions when I am forced to rely on SEU, I find my fingers flailing away at key combinations that I use almost without

(Miho Hachitani, Catalin Mierlea, Pete Neergaard and Grzegorz Smolko)IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 includes a Liberty profile, which is a highly composable, dynamic application server profile. It is designed for two specific use cases: Developer with a smaller production run time, and produc

(Willie Favero) I know, I’m a little late to the party on this one. I was hoping to publish this post last Tuesday morning (7/28). However, as things sometimes go, I got sidetracked and didn’t make it.