(Dave Beulke) The DB2 database family leads the industry with some of the best security features, safeguards, and mechanisms to secure your data. Security breaches of any database trouble us all, so it is always good to review the best security practices available.

(Joe Pluta) By this time, nearly everyone who programs in RPG has at least heard of embedded SQL. No matter what version of RPG you’re using, you have an opportunity to take advantage of this fantastic tool that extends the RPG language in a way that most other languages just don’t get.

(Lockwood Lyon) The IDAA from IBM is a hybrid hardware and software solution. The hardware consists of a large disk storage array coupled with software capable of massive parallel processing.

(Amol D. Barsagade) In the SaaS environment, data information and services are the key to customer success. HP Vertica is a critical database technology that assists customers to better manage their data in a cluster environment.

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Sheryl presented a valuable comparison of DB2 for z/OS to Oracle.

(Craig S. Mullins) In my last post here, I talked about the importance of built-in DB2 functions and how they can be used to simplify development. But DB2 also allows us to create our own, user-defined functions to programmatically extend the functionality of DB2.

(Dmitriy Beryoza, MaryAlice Campbell, Cesar Cardorelle, Tod Creasey, David Cushing, Vlaunir Da Silva, Sean David, Avery Hagleitner, Ian Henderson, Daniel Howell, Igor Kozine, Paul Prieto, Paul Thompson, Jose Vazquez and Ying Zhang) IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) provides a proven enterprise B

(Troy L Coleman) Software as a service (SaaS) is a way of delivering applications over the Internet. Rather than hire an in-house staff to install and maintain the software, company developers simply access the tools they need online.

(Dmitri Nevedrov) Demonstrating example business-to-customer scenarios, you can learn how to use WebSphere Commerce REST services to integrate WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Commerce.

(Mike Stegeman) IBM i costs 45 percent less than running Linux servers and 54 percent less than Windows servers, according to a 2014 study by ITG. These calculations are based on the average cost of hardware, licenses, support, personnel, and facilities over a three-year period.