(Craig S. Mullins) Let’s face it; sometimes it is easier to give an excuse than it is to take the time to answer a technical question. Especially if it’s the third time you’ve heard the same question in the last hour.

(Kim May) With all the challenges IBM’s move to the Global Skills Initiative (aka outsourcing education) has created for DB2 users, please remember IBM classes do still exist and are available for the patient and persistent. Fear not! If you need training, we are prepared to help.

(Krunal Vora and Karandeep Chawla) As data scientists for the customer analytic group in our wireless service provider company, we want to leverage customer data to predict customer churn. Customer retention is a critical challenge for the telecommunications industry, where annual churn rates can be

(Mark Gillis) I am sometimes presented with data that, although stored in the relational database, still needs some ‘massaging’ to be meaningful. An issue that would fall into that category would be where a set of values has been stored in a string; in order for this to be usable I really need to “u

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Cristian continued his excellent presentation on distributed configuration and many other topics.

(Sami Salkosuo) This tutorial shows you how to get started with IBM PureApplication System scripting using the command-line tool and REST API, and provides some useful sample scripts.

(Robert Catterall) There are several aspects to this question: What do I mean by “large?” Is the table in question new, or does it exist already? What is the nature of the data in the table, and how will that data be accessed and maintained?

(Dave Beulke) Years ago, before I started my career or gave my speech at the first IDUG conference, many declared the mainframe dead. When I was going to college, the uninformed were saying the mainframe was old technology.

(Ember Crooks) IDUG North America is over for another year. I enjoyed every minute of the conference this year, and was basically going solid from 7 AM to midnight every single day. I look forward to catching up on my sleep at home. I am typically someone who needs a solid 8-10 hours and I don’t dri

(Troy L Coleman) Last week I wrote about converting simple table spaces to partition by growth (PBG) Universal Table Spaces (UTS). This week I’ll share some SQL that can be used in this conversion process.