(Henrik Loeser) It’s been a while since my last news compilation. Here is a collection of news interesting links related to IBM Cloud from the past few weeks:

(James Gill) Whilst working with the DB2 for z/OS REST API, I thought it would be useful to have a tool to make things easier to see what was defined, what the parameter profiles look like and maybe even be able to run the services.

(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something! Kent provided a wealth of excellent information on Db2 pureScale including best practices, database manager configuration settings, database configuration settings, registry variables, HADR considerations, how to size memory, monitoring, workload manag

(Ember Crooks) DB2 has one or two ports that it is listening on for each and every Db2 instance. Two Db2 instances cannot share a port to listen on. Remember that Db2 allows multiple instances per server and also multiple databases per instance, and has for years.

(Craig S. Mullins) When it comes to Db2 for z/OS performance management, one of the first things you need to understand is the traces that are available that must be started in order to cause Db2 to track performance metrics.

(Paul McWilliams and Mo Townsend) We announced the general availability (GA) of Db2 12 for z/OS in October 2016. With the release of Db2 12, we also announced that continuous delivery of new capabilities in a single service stream. The adoption of new capabilities is controlled by the activation of

(Aliye Ergulen) To accelerate its journey to AI, a data-driven organization needs a trusted data foundation that empowers information stakeholders. Stakeholders need the ability to discover, understand, integrate, analyze, govern and self-serve structured and unstructured data — on premises, on clou

(Ted Holt) QAQQINI is a physical file with which you can control certain behaviors of the DB2 for i query engine. For a list of the query options that you can change, visit the IBM Knowledge Center. Normally you don’t have to use it, as the engineers of IBM have done a great job designing an optimiz

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) LOAD Utility Not Loading Data into Existing Empty Table Pages

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