(Jagadeesh Papaiah) The purpose of this document is to provide best practice guidelines to design and implement IBM FlashSystem storage for database workloads.

(Chris Crone) Db2 12 has been available for over 2 years and many customers have migrated to Db2 12 Function level 500. Function Level (FL) 500 enables all the new Db2 12 base capability and is equivalent to what we used to call New Function Mode (NFM) in Db2 11 and below.

(Lockwood Lyon) Until recently, business analytics against big data and the enterprise data warehouse had to come from sophisticated software packages.

(chadh) The UrbanCode Deploy Blueprint Designer has long supported the ability to design and provision full-stack cloud environments using OpenStack Heat orchestration. The cloud automation industry is now embracing Terraform as a standard for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

(Jae Lee and Paul McWilliams) In Db2 11 and 12, APARs PI44721 and introduce tracing procedures for writing trace information from native SQL procedures.

(James Gill) This is the sort of thing that I feel quite strongly about when I’m talking to customers, so there is a level of irony that rushing an RSU installation has proved to be so very instructive!

(Robert Catterall) Has this ever happened to you? You’re looking at the output of a Db2 for z/OS -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL(ACTIVE) DETAIL command, or maybe at a statistics report produced by your Db2 monitor, or maybe your Db2 monitor’s online display of a subsystem’s buffer pool activity, and you see for

(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something!Per Michael’s tweet this morning, “I will teach you how to say #holdmybeer while triaging #Db2 on production databases.” Downtime is expensive. Most DBAs have been in the hot seat with management demanding rapid information and problem resolution.

(Henrik Loeser) One of my (many) favorite IBM Cloud solution tutorials is about combining serverless and Cloud Foundry for data retrieval and analytics.

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Julian covered the important features relating to in-memory features and gave good recommendations on their use.