(Craig S. Mullins) One of the most important new “features” of Db2 12 for z/OS is continuous delivery. With continuous delivery more functionality will be made available more quickly than ever before. Instead of waiting for big version migrations new function levels can be applied rapidly, thereby d

(Lydia Parziale, Alvaro Salla and Patrick Oughton) The ABCs of z/OS System Programming is an 13-volume collection that provides an introduction to the z/OS operating system and the hardware architecture. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced system programmer, the ABCs collection provides the

(Ted Holt) According to Brian Tracy, “good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.” This is as true in programming as in a

Val Bercovici, Founder and CEO of PencilDATA, explains that before companies train AI software using the data they’ve collected, they have to be certain that the data is authentic, that it has been cleansed, that the people behind the datapoints have been honest in their answers.

(Robert Catterall) Sometimes, the default value of a Db2 ZPARM parameter is changed to reflect new realities of Db2 workloads and of systems on which Db2 for z/OS runs.

(Doug Tidwell) In this video, I show you how to take the Cloud Foundry app you created in Part 1 to the next level. First you’ll set up your machine to run the app locally.

(Troy L Coleman) I’m sometimes asked about options for getting hands on experience with Db2 for z/OS. Basically, I know of only one option, but it’s an excellent one: the IBM z Trial Program.

(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.

How is data science changing with the availability of high-performance data platforms? Vikram Murali, director of IBM Integrated Analytics Systems and Db2 Event Store development, Jay Wentworth, STSM of appliance architecture, and Thomas Chu, director of offering management and hybrid data, join Al

(Calene Janacek) The concept of automating routine database tasks is not new. It has been theorized, discussed and written about for several decades. But, true self-managing or autonomic capabilities have been slow to be developed and adopted and put into practice use.