(Craig S. Mullins) How many times have you surfed the Web only to encounter a form that requests a slew of personal information before you are permitted to go any further? You know what I’m talking about.

(Lockwood Lyon) Big data applications are common in large IT enterprises. The ability to analyze historical data and predict trends delivers value; in addition, business intelligence (BI) analytics can pay big dividends by avoiding outages and resource shortages, reducing service level agreements (S

(Henrik Loeser) Some while ago I wrote about DB2 encryption and how to rotate the master key.

(Ember Crooks) The default that DB2 uses if you don’t change anything is Circular logging. Circular logging is more often appropriate for databases where you don’t care about the data (I have seen it used for databases supporting Tivoli monitoring and other vendors) or for Data Warehousing and Decis

(Sherif Ali, Jagdish Komakula, Isa Torres, David Van de Pol and Donald Vines) In the third and final installment of this series, you will follow the process discussed in Parts 1 and 2 to migrate a JBoss application to the IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile – without incident.

(Craig S. Mullins) In Part 2 of this series we took a look at standard methods of influencing the DB2 optimizer, essentially boiling down to running RUNSTATS, reorganizing, encouraging parallelism and indexing.

(Avijit Chatterjee) You’re in for a bit of a treat today along with something a little different. For today’s post, we are going to have a true expert joining us as our “Guest Blogger”.

(Rajan Bhakta) The IBM z13 hardware provides a new SIMD unit. This article describes how to use the IBM z/OS XL C/C++ language to take advantage of the new processor and exploit the enhanced parallelism it offers.

(Ember Crooks) High Availability and Disaster Recovery often have different goals and priorities. High Availability can be considered the ability to keep a database available with little to no data loss during common problems.

(Robert Catterall) About seven years ago, in an entry posted to the blog I maintained while working as an independent DB2 consultant (prior to rejoining IBM), I wrote of the evolution of DB2 for z/OS SQL from merely a data manipulation language to a programming language.