(Jose Gilberto Biondo Jr.) The ABCs of IBM z/OS System Programming is a 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 information that you

(Henrik Loeser) Recently, I have been experimenting with the IBM Watson Conversation service and Db2.

(Kathryn Zeidenstein and Shengyan Sun) This article is based on Version 9 of IBM Guardium. In later releases, the PCI accelerator is included in the base platform and there is no need to install it separately. In addition, there are significant changes to the user interface in V10 that are not descr

(Craig S. Mullins) SQL tuning is a complicated task and to cover it adequately requires a full-length book of its own – actually, perhaps several if you use multiple DBMS products. That said, there are some good high-level SQL tuning suggestions that should apply regardless of the DBMS you are using

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) GOOD Alternative for LOGINDEXBUILD Use Table Space Level Restore on Stand By

(Troy L Coleman) I was recently asked about Db2 conferences and which provide the most technical content. Short answer: the long-standing SHARE and IDUG conferences.

(Paul Bird) I was cruising through some (very) old notes looking for some historical information on another matter when I happened upon some internal documentation for a feature that we implemented way back in 2008/2009 at customer request to provide a server-side mechanism to manipulate the default

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) Description: How To ReInitialize Standby at Quantum Speed

(Phil Wakelin, Carlos Donatucci, Jonathan Lawrence, Mitch Johnson, Michael Jones and Tito Paiva) This IBM Redbooks publication is intended for IBM CICS system programmers and IBM Z architects. It describes how to deploy and manage Java EE 7 web-based applications in an IBM CICS Liberty JVM server an

(Kim May) With IBM’s consolidation of conferences resulting in the cancellation of last Fall’s World of Watson/Insight/IOD Conference, and the merge into March’s upcoming Think conference, Db2 users have several educational event options to consider.