(James Gill) Whilst I haven’t used Python for a while, it has always been the playground for geeks. With it’s C-like look and feel and it’s huge array of extension libraries there’s very little it can’t do.

(Dino Quintero, Fabio Martins, Eduardo Luis Cerdas Moya and Rafael Camarda Silva Folco) This IBM Redbooks publication describes how to implement an Open Platform for Database as a Service (DBaaS) on IBM Power Systems environment for Linux, and demonstrate the open source tools, optimization and best

(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something! The early bird registration has been extended to 31 March 2018! Hotel space is filling up! Register Now! See our replays and PDF handout for information about IDUG and the upcoming conference in Philadelphia! It is IDUG’s 30 Anniversary! You will learn

(Vinay R. Rao) In my previous article, you saw how data lakes help speed up and reduce the costs of data ingestion by allowing storage of large volumes of multiformat data. The advent of inexpensive storage technologies makes it easier for organizations to store enormous amounts of data cheaply.

(Mark Gillis) In the first blog in this series ( Finding the access path for Columnar queries ) I was griping about not being able to see any detail in the explain plans for what DB2 is doing when you see a table scan (TBSCAN) of a column-organized table.

Learn how to build your own Offline First shopping list app with vanilla JavaScript and PouchDB in this step-by-step demo.

(Troy L Coleman) Db2 for z/OS News from the Lab, the IBM developerWorks blog I mentioned last week, recently surveyed customers about their zparm settings.

(David Shirey) I don’t care who you are, what you have done in your life, or how you view yourself or others view you. No one is more afraid of a personality insights app than I am. I have worked very hard to project a “normal” persona. And now I am to have it undone in an instant just to […]

(Martin) EVERYBODY (100%) in our audience learned something! Roy did a great job describing the challenges we face with Db2 12 Continuous Delivery. T

(Denis Tronin) System profiles are available as of Db2 for z/OS version 9, but they are still not widely used and known. However they represent quite a strong Db2 capability that can help you with a variety of needs such as managing and monitoring Db2 connections, modelling production environment, t