(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something!Mike, Dustin, and Mike gave us the inside scoop on what to expect at IDUG this June. NOTICE! There will be tech sessions on Db2 LUW V11.5! Plus SIGs, Ed Seminars, Certification Testing, Keynotes, IBM Champion sessions, z/OS sessions, and much more!

(Sueli Almeida and Paul McWilliams) We recently published a sample Db2 software services template.

(Mark Gillis) Table (or Range) Partitioning has been around since V9.7. It’s a canny option and a useful tool from both a performance and a data archiving point of view, but we do occasionally see it mis-managed and then it can be more of a nuisance than a benefit

(Robert Catterall) I’ve been interested in the role and trusted context features of Db2 for z/OS for a long time (I posted a two-part blog entry on the topic back in 2011). Theory is nice, but what about practice?

(Sueli Almeida and Paul McWilliams) We recently published a sample Db2 software services template. As a service provider, you can use it to create services (DBaaS) to rapidly provision from scratch one or multiple standalone Db2 subsystems.

(Rafael Victória-Pereira) Now that you’re probably preparing to set sail in your modernization adventure, it’s time to figure out where you want to go and make sure that everybody is on board with you.

(David Simpson) I recently worked with an insurance company on an interesting issue involving dates. They had a series of records that all had a start date but no end (or cancel) date.

(Ahmed Azraq, Wlodek Dymaczewski, Fernando Ewald, Luca Floris, Rahul Gupta, Vasfi Gucer, Anil Patil, Joshua Packer, Sanjay Singh, Sundaragopal Venkatraman and Zhi Min Wen) IBM Cloud Private is an application platform for developing and managing containerized applications across hybrid cloud environm

(Timothy Prickett Morgan) As a platform that is approaching 40 years of deployment within enterprises that can’t afford downtime with their mission critical systems – that’s counting the System/38 as well as the AS/400 and its follow-ons as part of the same continuum – it is no surprise at all that

(Lockwood Lyon) Many IT departments have implemented software solutions that go beyond simple transaction and analytical processing.