(Henrik Loeser) Today, I wanted to try out running a Python application in IBM Bluemix. And I wanted to check out weather reports for some possible weekend destinations. Why not combine it?

(Willie Favero) If you have had the chance to read “A refresher on setting up a buffer pools: Part 1 – Background” (posted June 24, 2014), you have been introduced to a short course on history of buffer pools in DB2 for z/OS; how the portion of the buffer pools that we have to deal with and administ

(Sriram Lakshminarasimhan) With the drastic growth of data stored in IBM DB2 tables, index sizes are bound to increase. Most indexes are still uncompressed, so there’s an urgent need to monitor indexes to avoid unforeseen outages related to index capacity.

(Robert Catterall) I have been a big fan of DB2 for z/OS native SQL procedures ever since the functionality was introduced with DB2 9, back in 1997. I have posted quite a few blog entries on the topic, the first in 1998 (written while I was working as an independent consultant) and the most recent j

(Dave Beulke) Architecture matters and storage architecture is being optimized from many different directions to make it faster and cheaper, as detailed in the recent Baron’s article “Tech Vets Vie for New Storage Supremacy.”

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How to Access Remote DB2 Database from Client Machine Solution:

(Willie Favero) Yup, another blog post inspired by the DB2-L list. A question presented by a good friend was “how to set up multiple buffer pools”. It came as a surprise that they appeared to be using a single buffer pool, a concept I assumed had been abandoned forever ago…

(Paolo Bruni and Willie Favero) IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator V4.1 expands the value of high-performance analytics. DB2 Analytics Accelerator 4.1 opens to static SQL applications and rowset processing, minimizes data movement, reduces latency, and improves availability.

(Ember Crooks) Sometimes, I think that I subconsciously knew that something was wrong. I woke up before 5 AM and couldn’t get back to sleep for no real reason that I could figure out. I gave up on sleep around 5:15 and went to take a shower. On the way to the shower, I read work email and found this

(Troy Coleman) I’ve already written extensively about EXPLAIN, but since IBM continues to develop the feature and enhance the process, there’s plenty more to cover.