(Jack Vamvas) Question: How can I check load status in DB2 LUW?

(John Maenpaa) One of the more difficult parts of developing a data architecture for a new project is choosing which technologies to use. You’ll have application developers that have their opinions, management with a different view, and legacy technology already in place.

(Henrik Loeser) Last month, after receiving user questions, I blogged about how to decipher Cloud Foundry log entries. Today, I want to point you to a small Cloud Foundry Python app I wrote.

(Sowmya Kameswaran, Tyler Condon, Jason Yao and Rita Zimmer) IBM Data Server Manager is a web-based, integrated database management tools platform that manages IBM Db2 and IBM Db2 for z/OS databases. With IBM Data Server Manager, you can manage and administer IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (Accelerat

(James Gill) In the previous blogs in this series, we’ve seen that the process of creating and consuming REST services with DB2 for z/OS V11 and V12 can be managed easily with PHP.

(Troy L Coleman) Last week I discussed many of the data compression benefits delivered with Db2 8. That release included perhaps the most significant development in data compression in the past decade: since Version 8, Db2 has handled data compression using hardware, not software.

(Joe Pluta) As the APIs become more powerful, they need more complex parameters to control their behavior, and this article shows how to build those complex parameters.

“Every [SQL] data type includes a special value, called the null value,”0 “that is used to indicate the absence of any data value”.1

(Tony Andrews) In Db2 the best way for any developer writing SQL queries to know how a query is gathering the data for a result set is through the Db2 explain tool. I find too many developers do not know what to do or where to start when it comes to SQL tuning, program tuning, or application tuning.

(Robert Catterall) Temporal data support, introduced with Db2 10 for z/OS, is one of the more interesting SQL-related Db2 enhancements delivered in recent releases of the DBMS. Temporal data support comes in two flavors (which can both be utilized for a single table): business-time temporal and syst