(Craig S. Mullins) I usually try to avoid predicting the future because humans, as a general rule, are not very good at it. But when things look repetitive or cyclical, then sometimes a “bold” prediction here and there is worth attempting.

(Ember Crooks) I have worked with DB2 on Windows on and off over the years and have largely not enjoyed it all that much. Most likely because the vast majority of my time is spent on UNIX and Linux systems, so when I end up at a windows command line, my fingers type things like “ls” and “grep” befor

(Mike Branson) The Internet of Things already connects billions of devices, with forecasts predicting steep growth rates in the coming years. Many of these devices, such as smartphones and connected vehicles, are mobile.

(Troy L Coleman) DB2 11 introduced a feature to help identify missing or conflicting statistics that can help the optimizer choose a more efficient access path. I wrote about this feature here, however, I’ve since learned that two DB2 subsystem parameters can be used to reduce the amount of informat

(Lockwood Lyon) A big data implementation will make additional demands on the DBA’s time, including required education and training, support of new analytics users, and management of new hardware and software.

(Ahmed Abdel-Hamid, Scott Andrews, Ali Arsanjani, Hala Aziz, Owen Cline, Jorge Gonzalez-Orozco, Chris Hockings, Tony Kambourakis and Steve Mirman) In today’s business in motion environments, workers expect to be connected to their critical business processes while on-the-go. It is imperative to deli

(Craig S. Mullins) DB2 can use both DECIMAL and FLOAT data types to store non-integer numeric data. But the two are not equivalent. In general, use DECIMAL instead of FLOAT whenever you can. The main problem with floating point numbers is that they are not precise.

(Willie Favero) Nope, this is not a tribute post to Bill Haley & His Comets. It’s actually about (and here’s the big surprise) our new z13.

(Nick Maynard) MQTT is a publish-subscribe based lightweight message protocol. A critical enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), MQTT can also be used for reliable enterprise messaging to mobile devices, enabling secure, reliable communications for the next generation of resilient mobile applicati

(Robert Catterall) Last month, IBM announced the z13 — the latest generation of the mainframe computer. The z13 is chock full of great technical features, and there are already plenty of presentations, white papers, and “redbooks” in which you can find a large amount of related information.