(Alex Woodie) HiT Software is now supporting the latest releases of Microsoft Windows, Windows Server, SQL Server, and Office apps with its ODBC/400 and OLEDB/400 database drivers that provide Windows apps with access to the IBM i OS’s DB2/400 database

(David Birmingham) The recent 2014 Winter Olympics brought to mind parallels between those games and analytics solutions. Of course, Olympians have to follow the standard rules. They cannot simply fly down the mountain as fast as possible. They have to stay within the lines. There is no room for inn

(Curtis Miles and Ann Ewan) Integrating disparate systems to provide timely information at the point of care is a critical aspect of improving patient care in today’s healthcare environment. Using the right combination of technologies for integration, mobile applications, and operational intelligenc

(Craig S. Mullins) Sometimes when you are writing your SQL to access data you come across the need to work with aggregates. Fortunately, SQL offers many simple ways of aggregating data. But what happens when you uncover then need to perform aggregations of aggregates?

(Willie Favero) DB2 11 for z/OS added a new subsystem parameter (aka DSNZPARM) that gives more control over free space in a heavily updated table space called PCTFREE_UPD. PCTFREE_UPD is a keyword on the DSN6SPRM macro.

(Kelly Schlamb) I’m a command line kind of guy, always have been. When I’m loading a presentation or a spreadsheet on my laptop, I don’t open the application or the file explorer and work my way through it to find the file in question and double click the icon to open it.

(Ember Crooks) Nearly every DB2 conference I go to has me thinking about DB2 certification. That is probably because most conferences include free or reduced cost certification testing. I have covered this topic before, so feel free to check out the blog entries on it:

(Troy Coleman) Many, many years ago, I was a DB2 systems programmer. As part of my training, I was sent to an IBM DB2 systems tuning course. That type of education cost several thousand dollars back then, but with the knowledge I’d gained, my employer easily recouped its investment in the form of re

(Willie Favero) The Accelerator, SQL tuning, Optim Query Workload Tuner combined with a great presenter. All that makes it sounds like this upcoming April 8 teleconference is going to be an excellent one. I know I’ll be listening in to learn some tips and improve my tuning technique.

(Jerome Boyer) Decision service is quite a buzz term, you even see product features with such a name. As a solution architect or developer, you may have seen the need to go outside of pure product play, and think about designing and implementing such services so they can be easily maintained and con