(Ember Crooks) Critical to recovering a database, but largely invisible, it is a good idea to understand the recovery history file, what it contains, and how to access it.

(Eddy Coppens) As many other I got challenged to set up a database architecture. Not only database objects related, describing the different environments was also asked and there was an urgent need for a decent security setup to support rollouts in general.

(Michael Krafick) In this episode we will walk through downloading and spinning up a Db2 v11.1 Developer C docker image.

(Domenico D’Alterio, Michael Bonett, Eric Goodson, Matt Hunter, Keith Miller, Fabio Riva, Volkmar Burke Siegemund and John Strymecki) IBM Common Data Provider for z Systems collects, filters, and formats IT operational data in near real-time and provides that data to target analytics solutions. IBM

(Henrik Loeser) Recently, I posted about a then upcoming Meetup and my talk about chatbots. Here is a quick follow-up. To compile stuff for that presentation and some other upcoming talks, I created a GitHub repository “chatbot-talk2018”.

(Alex Woodie) More organizations are moving business logic from RPG and COBOL programs into the DB2 for i database, which most community members agree is a good thing. The IBM i server’s core strength is its integrated a database, after all.

(Paul_McWilliams) The Db2 for z/OS REST video series explains how to set up, authorize, create, bind, discover, and invoke REST services in Db2 for z/OS.

(Dan Schallenkamp) Data democratization enables users to access data across an organization and empowers them to use data in decision making to gain critical business insights. Data democratization is fast becoming a game changer as it’s moving toward a user-centric, microservices-based architecture

(Alex Woodie) Thanks to a slew of acquisitions, HelpSystems has become one the largest independent software vendors in the IBM i marketplace, with tools spanning operations, security, backup, high availability, forms management, and capacity planning.

(Henrik Loeser) Early last year, I wrote about how to improve security for your custom domains on IBM Cloud. I pointed out that I was using the bluemix-letsencrypt wrapper for Cloud Foundry app to generate and retrieve SSL certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt.