(John Ghrist) By using its combination of speech-to-text and natural-language comprehension skills, Watson Conversation is capable of helping create chat applications and virtual customer service agents that can handle many routine operations in those areas.

(Terry Purcell and Paul McWilliams) Db2 12 improves how the Db2 optimizer uses the NPGTHRSH subsystem parameter for default statistics. However, we’ve found that very few clients are even familiar with the NPGTHRSH subsystem parameter, and the current default value disables its function.

(Eddy Coppens) Even on the school benches I noticed that my teachers where not well taught themselves when it came to SQL. They just copied the text from their books onto the school board not giving us much insight on the matter.

(Henrik Loeser) Yesterday, I blogged about the latest tutorial I wrote. The tutorial discusses how to combine serverless and Cloud Foundry for data retrieval and analytics.

(Sandeep R. Patil, Clodoaldo Barrera, Carl Zetie, Felipe Knop and Nils Haustein) The role of the IT solutions is to enforce the correct handling of personal data using processes developed by the establishment. Each element of the solution stack must address the objectives as appropriate to the data

(Troy L Coleman) The JSON_VAL function provides an SQL interface to extract and retrieve JSON data into SQL data types from BSON objects. BSON is a standardized binary representation format for serializing JSON documents. It allows for fast traversal of JSON documents.

Adam Storm, architect with the IBM Hybrid Data Management team, discusses his demo, a partnership project with Lightbend that pulls in data from weather sensors, filters that data through the Lightbend app and then pushes the results into the IBM DB2 Event Store.

(Kim May) I am pre-announcing (if that’s a word) our upcoming free, hands-on IDAA training class scheduled for June 19th and 20th at the Radisson Cross Keys in Baltimore. This class is being updated to support the IDAA V7.1 (“Sailfish”) and will contain content covering the new architecture, sizing

(Carol Woodbury) Saving your IBM i security data is a critical part of being able to recover your system, but when it starts to take too long, you may be tempted to stop this process.

(Alex Woodie) A serious flaw has been discovered in the BIND networking service that could be used to launch a denial of service attack against impacted servers, including IBM i.