(Doug Mack) Sometimes I find myself talking out of both sides of my mouth when discussing Db2 Web Query capabilities. The term is related to contradicting yourself – maybe saying one thing to one person, and another, opposite thing to another.

(M. Tim Jones) Data is a commodity, but without ways to process it, its value is questionable. Data science is a multidisciplinary field whose goal is to extract value from data in all its forms. This article explores the field of data science through data and its structure as well as the high-level

(Sam Lightstone) In 1952, IBMer Arthur Samuel created the first implementation of a machine learning system in America — to play checkers

(Nigel T. Crowther) Learn step-by-step how to deploy a Decision Composer application to the Business Rules service and run it within Hadoop. Access IBM Cloud Lite free.

(Henrik Loeser) Last week, I introduced you to a new tutorial for a database-driven Slackbot. Today, I am going to discuss details of how the IBM Watson Conversation service is accessing a Db2 Warehouse service from within a dialog

(Joe Pluta) RDi is a fantastic tool for RPG development. Since its earliest days as WDSC (or however you choose to capitalize the acronym), the Eclipse-based development suite has been one of the premier productivity tools for IBM midrange developers.

(Mike Larsen) IBM Integrated Web Services (IWS) makes it easy to create web services and deploy them to a web server. If you need to deploy the same service to multiple web servers, you could use IWS to manually create it on each server, but it would be time-consuming and error-prone.

(Bimal Jha) Since node.js is one of the key technologies in many RESTful service implementations this fits into our theme of the month.

(Troy L Coleman) IBM announced the end of support for DB2 11 for z/OS. The good news is you have some time: support will be withdrawn on Sept. 30, 2020, about 2 1/2 years from now.

(Bill White, Andy Coulson, Jacky Doll, Brad Habbershaw, Cecilia Carranza Lewis, Thomas Liu, Ryan McCarry, Eysha Shirrine Powers, Philippe Richard and Romoaldo Santos) This IBM Redbooks publication provides a broad explanation of IBM Z pervasive encryption with a focus on z/OS data set encryption. It