(Henrik Loeser) This morning I had some time to fiddle around with Bluemix and Python. I wanted to test out creating a cron-like service, i.e., something that runs in the background and kicks off tasks with given intervals or at a given time.

(Willie Favero) If you have a product license for DB2 11 for z/OS or DB2 10 for z/OS, it’s time to get your updated copy of the Diagnosis Guide and Reference.

(Troy L Coleman) IBM continues to make improvements to its DB2 Analytics Accelerator at, yes, an accelerating rate. The company releases new features through its maintenance stream. Here are the most recent PTF releases:

(Daniel Nussbaummueller) We live in an age when data is one of an organization’s most important assets. Companies want the ability to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. Being agile and applying predictive analytics is the key to the insights needed to grow business

(Lockwood Lyon) When I ask database administrators how they implemented disaster recovery in their big data environments there are two typical responses:

(Troy L Coleman) IBM continues to make improvements to its DB2 Analytics Accelerator at, yes, an accelerating rate. The company releases new features through its maintenance stream. Here are the most recent PTF releases:

(Daniel Nussbaummueller) We live in an age when data is one of an organization’s most important assets. Companies want the ability to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. Being agile and applying predictive analytics is the key to the insights needed to grow business

(Lockwood Lyon) When I ask database administrators how they implemented disaster recovery in their big data environments there are two typical responses:

(Scott Moonen and Hendrik van Run) IBM PureApplication System V2.0 introduced support for multi-system management and deployment, which enables you to perform catalog management and deployment across systems. This tutorial helps you setup a management domain and deployment subdomain using IBM PureAp

(Dave Mulley) Eric Berg has written previously about the business value of replacing Java CAPS with IBM Integration Bus and about the tried and trusted process that IBM uses to reduce cost and risk of migrations, so I will only focus on the newly updated IBM Migration Tool for JCAPS in this post.