(Vinay R. Rao) Eclipse Deeplearning4J (DL4J) is a framework of deep learning tools and libraries written specially to take advantage of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

(Robert Catterall) Near the end of the blog entry I most recently posted prior to this one, I mentioned that a specification of MEMBER CLUSTER for a Db2 for z/OS universal table space could help maximize INSERT throughput and efficiency, in situations where the importance of that objective outweighs

(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something! SELECTIVITY, OPTGUIDELINES, Runstats, Indexes, Bufferpool Design, REORGs, monitoring advice, and more!! No wonder Joe won Best User Speaker at IDUG Lisbon 2017! Joe’s presentation is full of terrific advice and tips!

(Ted Holt) This article explains some of the various manipulations you can perform in CL to combine two or more constant or variable values: specifically, the trim, type-conversion, and case-conversion functions.

(Carol) Replay! If you missed the last DB2Night Show of 2017 then fear not, our partners over at DBI Software HQ have made the replay of Mark Gillis’ DB2 11 Performance: BLU Hits and Misses available as a replay.

(Eddy Coppens) As a DBA you are rather frequently asked whether the database is the same structure-wise all over the different environments. Whenever a decent release management is in place you can be very relaxed answer that this is the fact … when setting up a new environment missing such a releas

(Troy L Coleman) Enhancements for Db2 Native REST Web Services IBM recently released some fixes and new functionality for Db2 for z/OS. If you’re currently using and or planning to use Db2 native RESTful web services, you should apply this maintenance.

(Wei G. Gong) This IBM Redguide publication describes big data and analytics (BD&A) deployments that are built on IBM Spectrum Scale. Spectrum Scale is a proven enterprise-level distributed file system that is a high-performance and cost-effective alternative to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

(James Gill) This is the 6th blog post in the (ahem) series of 5 on the DB2 for z/OS native REST interface. The previous entries are:

(Jean Georges Perrin) In the first four parts of this series, you learned how to: