(Ted Holt) When I first learned COBOL, I coded loops the way all the programmers in my shop did — with GO TO. Paragraph names were labels, not routines.

(Rav Ahuja) Today IBM and Coursera launched an online Data Science Professional Certificate to address the shortage of skills in data-related professions.

(Jennifer Clemente) It’s no secret that IBM can help companies transform data analytics, build a better cloud and ladder up to AI.

(Henrik Loeser) Right now, Michael Tiefenbacher and I have to prepare our joint talk “Some iterations over recursion” for the IDUG Db2 Tech Conference in Malta 2018.

(Paul McWilliams and Ann Hernandez) In the next installment of what is becoming a series about PDF format documentation for Db2 for z/OS, we want to answer some questions from reader comments on a previous post.

Flexibility is the name of the game when it comes to DB2 support. If a problem is going to happen you can bet your lunch money on it happening in the middle of the night on a Sunday when your most experienced DB2 DBA is on holiday.

(Joe Pluta) I’ve used various features of SQL for a long time, but the one that has always given me a little trouble is the PREPARE statement.

(Henrik Loeser) This Summer I have been away few days here and there. Once back, I tried to catch up with changes for IBM Cloud and its services as well as with Db2.

(John Maenpaa) In last week’s article, I wrote a little about microservice architectures and how that trend can impact performance. Now, I want to dive a bit deeper into an example where an application design that used to be efficient can become overly expensive.

(Craig S. Mullins) Those of you who are regular readers of my blog know that I have written one of the most enduring books on Db2 called DB2 Developer’s Guide. It has been in print for over twenty years in 6 different editions.