(Cindy Russell) The “Internet of Things” is the growing number of devices and sensors that communicate via the Internet, offering vast new opportunities. Harnessing data from billions of connected devices lies in the ability to store, access and query SQL and NoSQL data together, seamlessly.

(Henrik Loeser) Currently, I am taking a look at IBM’s new Platform-as-as-Service (PaasS) offering code-named “Bluemix”.

(Paolo Bruni, Jason Arnold, Leticia Cruz, Jeff Feinsmith, Willie Favero, Anna Griner, James Guo, Chris Harlander, Johannes Kern, Ravi Kumar, Ruiping Li, Andy Perkins, Jonathan Sloan, Steve Speller and Dino Tonelli) The IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for IBM z/OS (simply called Accelerator in this boo

(Charek Chen and Noureddine Brahimi) Part 3 of this three-part article series describes where some common test errors occur and how to determine the problem.

(Ember Crooks) My earlier post on table reorgs covered Reorg’s place in a database maintenance cycle and running reorgchk. If you haven’t already read it, check it out:

(Troy Coleman) Managing EXPLAIN tables can be time-consuming. DB2 developers often create EXPLAIN tables and allow them to exist on the system for years without being upgraded to include the latest columns or support the newer table types that have been introduced in recent DB2 releases.

(Craig S. Mullins) Although robust performance and administration tools are probably the best solution for gathering information about your DB2 subsystems and databases, you can gain significant insight into your DB2 environment simply using the DISPLAY command.

(Marco Bonezzi) Last week during some performance tests on one of our PureData for Transactions Systems, we were looking at the CPU load for the system during workload execution.

(Willie Favero) It’s pretty straightforward. If you add a new access status that could affect a utility, then maybe the stored procedure that does utility processing for you should also be enhanced.

(Robert Catterall) Often, there is a bit of a time lag between the introduction of a DB2 for z/OS feature and the widespread adoption of the new technology. Take universal table spaces, for example.