(Rafael Victoria-Pereira) RPG is not (and never will be) the focus of this series, but sometimes a bit of SQL can help to untangle problems and/or business rules that are too complex or too “buried” in RPG programs. That’s what we’ll be talking about over the next few TechTips.

(Paul_McWilliams) It can be challenging to train a new generation of Db2 for z/OS users whose model of learning no longer includes days of reading long “manuals.” But they have energy, enthusiasm and lots of new ideas that you want to foster. Why not try teaching them with short videos?

(James Gill) In its simplest form, ansible is a Python derived automation scripting tool, commonly used to install, configure and manage servers and services. It has a huge collection of modules available out of the box to support management of a wide variety of tasks.

(Damir Wilder) Recently, I assisted a client migrating their DB2 databases from v9.7 to v11.1.

(Jon Lind) From students to seasoned enterprise developers, the hoops one typically must jump through to install and use the types of commercial software most enterprises run their businesses on can be unnecessarily frustrating and expensive.

From working with many customers to help keep their critical databases up and running we have come up with the top 6 reasons for putting Database Availability at the top of your priority list.

(Martin Hubel) If you are a serious Db2 user, chances are you have downloaded and used free Db2 versions for a few years.

(Ember Crooks) Learning SQL can feel intimidating, even to some experienced DB2 DBAs. For years, you could administer Db2 without using SQL. There are a lot of developers, too who want to learn SQL. The set-thinking of SQL can be confusing.

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Kai described the requirements and issues when creating Db2 test data.

(Kevin Oliver) At the Think 2019 conference, IBM hosted a plethora of data-management-focused sessions with several announcements that will undoubtedly impact the data management strategy of many businesses. Here are essentials about each announcement below, including what’s next for Db2 as well as