(Walid Rjaibi) A discussion about cloud security would not be complete without an understanding of the different cloud computing models as there are different expectations and requirements of each. In their special publication SP 800-145, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

(Martin Smithson) IBM Integration Bus (IIB) provides out-of-the-box integration with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) through the Endpoint Lookup and Registry Lookup nodes. Using these nodes, you can implement message flows in IIB that dynamically retrieve service metadata from WSRR

(Willie Favero) This is Part 3 of 4 of a multi-part post covering the WLM buffer pool management function.

(Jack Vamvas) Question: On a DB2 LUW 9.7 instance , I’m getting these error messages. What commands can I use to investigate and troubleshoot SQL1226N due to many db2agent processes attached to the instance?

(Henrik Loeser) One of the newer features in DB2 is extended trimming capability in the functions LTRIM and RTRIM. Since Fixpack 2 of DB2 10.1 both functions have an optional second parameter which is used to specify the characters to be removed from the beginning or end of a string.

(Walid Rjaibi) This is the first in my series of posts on data security in the cloud. The objective of this series is to demystify cloud security and arm readers with what they need to know to adopt the cloud with confidence. So, let’s get started.

(Sudhee Subrahmanya) The infamous bank robber Willie Sutton is often quoted as saying that criminals go after banks because “that is where the money is.” Whatever the source, the intended meaning is of course that thieves try to steal wherever things of value are located.

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Willie covered many topics from bufferpools, zIIPs, and prefetch to IDAA. This is a must-see for any z/OS DBA. Watch the replay…

(Willie Favero) This is Part 2 of 4 of a multi-part post covering the WLM buffer pool management function.

(Michele Crudele) A distributed data cache can improve the response time of a cloud-centric application’s presentation layer by caching responses to frequent user requests. Distributed caching also has the benefit of offloading the data-service layer: the application components that provide data per