(Pas Apicella) The following simple example shows how to push the basic hello world Python application to IBM Bluemix. We use the buildpack below.

(Ludovic Janssens) For the past 30 years, our focus as DB2 for z/OS database administrators has been on the support of COBOL programs with static queries that were relatively easy to control as they were identical throughout the business logic. Static SQL provided persisted access paths in the datab

(Matthias Nicola) I spent this week in Philadelphia at the annual DB2 user group conference. The week was packed with excellent technical sessions, panel discussions, customer presentations, hands-on labs, seminars, and lots of networking opportunities.

(Henrik Loeser) Yesterday evening, I had some time on my own and didn’t want to read. Why not surf in the Internet? That’s why there are services like YouTube or Bluemix where you can spend hours without too much thinking… 🙂 I ended up fiddling with dashDB on Bluemix and building reports with my

(Rengan Sundararaman and Donald Vines) Part 1 of this two-part article series answers frequently asked questions (FAQs) that we get from customers who are moving their Java EE applications to WebSphere Application Server from other application servers, such as JBoss and WebLogic.

(Ember Crooks) When you’re considering dropping and re-creating a table, view, or MQT, it is critical to ensure that you consider any dependencies. When dropping a table, any MQTs that rely on it will be dropped, and views marked inoperative.

(Willie Favero) RUNSTATS, one of the best tools in a DBA’s toolbox. the importance of accurate statistics in the DB2 catalog cannot be over emphasized. To quote a conversation with a good friend: “When a customer reports a performance problem with a query or query performance regression, the over

(Joe Pluta) Last time, we took a little segue into creating XML from relational data. Now it’s time to return to the other direction, making relational tables from XML data. XML can easily support a complex nested relationship of data with both optional and repeating elements, but that doesn’t alway

(Henrik Loeser) Today I wanted to test some options around encrypting DB2 backups and restoring encrypted database backups. I can report that the security features work, only my stupidity (or call it “vacation readiness”) caused some delays.

(Troy L Coleman) After seeing recent discussions about converting simple or segmented table space to partition-by-growth (PBG) universal table space (UTS) on the DB2 mailing list,. I thought I’d cover this topic. I’ve previously written about UTS, but it’s been awhile.