(Craig S. Mullins) Perhaps the most significant requirement for coding successful Db2 application programs is having a reasonable set of test data to use during the development process. Without data, there is no way to test your code to make sure it runs.

(Craig Friske and Hendrik Mynhardt) As IBM continues to enhance the functionality, performance, and availability of IBM Db2, the utilities have made significant strides towards self-management.

We speak to our very own in-house Dr about the signs to look out for which can tell you that it’s time to start thinking about a remote DB2 support solution.

How do baseball scouts use machine learning and AI to predict player performance? Ari Kaplan, Principal at Aginity, and David Kearns, Offering Manager, IBM Analytics Ecosystem, join us to talk about the recent merge of H20.ai and IBM.

(Ember Crooks) Database servers these days sometimes have a profusion of IP Addresses. IP V4, V6, management networks, and Virtual IP addresses all add to the ways applications connect in to a database server.

Dynamic SQL statements are more susceptible to creating performance problems than static SQL. A full PREPARE occurs for every miss in the dynamic statement cache, and such SQL statements might go through query optimization several times per day.

(Henrik Loeser) Few months back, I introduced you to a tutorial for a database-drive Slackbot. In the tutorial I used the Conversation connector to hook up IBM Watson Assistant to Slack as a chatbot.

(David Shirey) Prototyping is a term that describes how modules are accessed within the ILE environment. The word prototype also refers to a particular D-spec structure that is required to support this call or access.

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Dave discussed the latest Db2 security methods, procedures and techniques for fortifying DB2 systems, databases and applications. A must-see!

(Sowmya Kameswaran) Yes! The IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS V7.1 (IDAA) now deploys directly on IBM Z.