(Akiko Murakami) The search function is a very powerful tool, assuming you have concrete keywords or concepts to find in your data.

(Philip Nelson) The topic for the IDUG Content Committee for February 2018 is “RESTful”.

(James Gill) One of the challenges that we’ve faced working with the DB2 for z/OS native REST API is the mid-range nature of the interface when creating services.

(Dino Quintero, Cesar Maciel and Marcos Quezada) This IBM Redpaper publication addresses IBM Patterns for Cognitive Systems topics to anyone developing, implementing, and using Cognitive Solutions on IBM Power Systems™ servers. Moreover, this publication provides documentation to transfer the knowle

(Henrik Loeser) A tutorial I wrote, featuring a database-backed Slack chatbot, is now live. It uses Db2 as database system to store event data.

(Kim J. Clark) This two-part series explores the approach that modern integration architectures are taking to ensure they can be as agile as the applications that they interconnect.

(Troy L Coleman) I’m just back a week at the Db2 for z/OS Silicon Valley Lab (SVL), where we discussed z Analytics products. One of the sessions I really enjoyed was the hands-on lab for Data Server Manager (DSM).

(Carol) It’s not unusual for us to be countering arguments that the Mainframe is dead so we were delighted to read the recent BMC report on the Mainframe. In this insightful survey BMC have busted 5 common myths about the Mainframe:

(Joe Pluta) When you create a table in SQL using DDL statements, the default is to allow nulls, which means that, for any row, you can populate the column with a null value. Nulls have a number of specific characteristics; you can read about them here.

(Troy L Coleman) Following up on last week’s post on data virtualization and the ongoing effort to keep data on the mainframe, I thought it would be appropriate to provide an update on the latest release of IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) V7.1.