(Scott Belanger, Abelard Chow and Paul Chen) As developers, we want to build, deploy, and manage fast cloud applications using services and runtime frameworks, recognizing that the cloud itself can’t run any faster than more traditional resources.

(Iqbal Goralwalla) I’m really excited about the DB2 10.5 “Cancun Release”, in particular with the Shadow tables feature. Based on my experiences with customers who have mixed workloads (transaction and analytic) on a transactional system, one of the big performance pain points is when the transactio

(Kurt Struyf) As I sit here on the last day of my summer vacation overlooking nature and holding a Jack on the rocks, determined to write this article, I can’t help but think: “wow times goes by fast.” I was going to write this article the first day, no wait the second… well you know the story.

(Brian S Paskin) Loose coupling with the Service Provider pattern enables new classes to be added without the need for any application code changes. This is possible using Context and Dependency Injection (CDI), part of Java EE 6 that is simple to implement and provides several advantages including

(Dave Hay) It’s been ~10 years since I last did this ( DB2 on Unix to DB2 on z/OS or OS/400 ), but I now have a requirement to deliver a DB2 client for WebSphere MQ interaction ( MQ will use ODBC rather than JDBC ).

(Willie Favero) The August 2014 DB2 for z/OS product publication updates for DB2 11, DB2 10, and DB2 9 are now available. Things are now back to usual with all supported version having their publications updated at the same.

(Michael Sansoterra) Normally, modesty would forbid me from saying this, but I love Four Hundred Guru. I was looking for a way to create a globally unique identifier (GUID) also known as a universally unique identifier (UUID) so that I could write some DB2 code compatible with SQL Server.

(Henrik Loeser) Last week I reported on how I set up a in-memory DB2 database on IBM Bluemix and loaded some historic weather data. Over the last couple days I used some spare time to play with the Cloud-based analytic capabilities that are provided as part of the Softlayer/Bluemix/DB2 combination.

(Amitava Kundu, Anushka Chandrababu, Neela Madhav Suram and Ellen Livengood) You can use predefined report features in the InfoSphere Optim Performance Manager for DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows web console to generate reports in HTML, PDF, PPT, and XLS formats.

(Dave Hay) So I have been wrestling with IBM Business Monitor and, more specifically, Cognos, which was failing to start up with errors such as DPR-DPR-1035, DPR-CMI-4007, CM-CFG-5063 and CM-CFG-5137.