(Keith Winnard and Jeanne Vangsness) DFSMShsm fast replication provides DFSMShsm management for the use of volume-level fast replication. Fast replication is made possible by using the FlashCopy capability of storage servers. With this capability, a set of storage groups can be defined as a copy poo

(Dan Burger) Web application development depends on two document formats for the interchange of business data: XML and JSON. The smaller (lighter weight), quicker to transmit, and more efficient is JSON. XML has been a good choice and has served its purpose well. It continues to do so.

(Lauren Schaefer) Need an easy DevOps solution? You’ve come to the right place: IBM Bluemix.

(Srinivasa Inaganti) MySQL is open-source RDBMS and is gaining popularity in the recent years.. I am starting a comparison series for mysql and db2.

(Pas Apicella) In this post I show what is necessary to deploy a simple Meteor application to IBM Bluemix public instance. In this example we already have a simple Meteor application we have tested and verified using “meteor” itself , running on localhost at port 3000.

(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something! By George, IBM got Encryption Right! Beginning in DB2 LUW 10.5.5, full instance, database, and related objects and files can be easily encrypted.

(Scott Forstie) Once again, it’s time to talk about the Technology Refresh timed enhancements to DB2 for i. When I reflected on how I would describe this topic in a “short and sweet” manner, I thought about a recent business trip I made to Indianapolis.

(Robert Catterall) Twice in the past month, I’ve encountered a misunderstanding pertaining to dynamic SQL statements issued by applications that access DB2 for z/OS via network connections (these could also be called DDF-using applications, or DRDA requesters). Now seems as good a time as any to cle

(Craig S. Mullins) Although this blog usually focuses on DB2 issues, I sometimes use it to focus on other IT issues, usually mainframe-related.

(Rachel Reinitz) IBM Bluemix is more than just a platform for building composable applications in the cloud.