(Henrik Loeser) I needed some fun at the end of the workday today. Why not enhance my own skills, do some "coding", and try out Node-RED on Bluemix again (I performed a "phoney" test in October already). This time, I wanted to see whether a database like DB2 or dashDB is supported as backend.

(Ember Crooks) My favorite week of the year is the IDUG North American Technical Conference. It’s better than Christmas if you ask me. I get to see my DB2 family and learn all kinds of new stuff. I come away refreshed and inspired.

(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something! DataStage is a very popular ETL tool that is used with IBM DB2 LUW. Michael offered some very valuable advice on how to maximize performance in DPF and non-DPF environments.

(Eric Herness) In general, there is agreement and overall understanding of the systems of record (SOR) and systems of engagement (SOE) view of enterprise architecture.

(Jack Vamvas) Question: How can I delete rows in batches ? I’m getting the SQL0964C The transaction log for the database is full error, and don’t have the authority to increase the LOGSECOND parameter?

(Giovanni Vigorelli and Jervis Lee) This two-part tutorial series demonstrates the flexibility of WebSphere Cast Iron by integrating with popular cloud services such as Google and Amazon Web Services. The tutorial series shows how to authenticate to Google Analytics via Google APIs and OAuth V2, and

(Troy L Coleman) In a recent blog post, Denis Tronin discussed DB2 for z/OS performance monitoring.

(Lockwood Lyon) Using advanced analytics to analyze business data is common, especially in large companies with many customer-facing systems. As more and more data is made available the enterprise stages large data stores into the enterprise data warehouse.

(Steve Lohr) IBM is taking its Watson artificial-intelligence technology into health care in a big way with industry partners, a pair of acquisitions and an ambitious agenda.

(Pas Apicella) The IBM Watson Personality Insights service uses linguistic analysis to extract cognitive and social characteristics from input text such as email, text messages, tweets, forum posts, and more.