(Chris Phillips) To manage and maintain any runtime system, you need a comprehensive versioning strategy. Without a clear strategy in place, how do you know which services and APIs are deployed and which version to use?

(Scott) 98% of our audience learned something! What is HADR? Why should you use HADR? Where should HADR be deployed? When should you use HADR? Who is using HADR? And, bonus, How is HADR being used by Db2 Customers? Our live audience was HUGE- clearly HADR is an important, and popular, topic of conce

(Giuseppe Costagliola) It’s been over a decade since I presented two utilities that gave you the ability to create XLS worksheets from an SQL instruction in System i. Now it’s time to present a revamped version of these utilities, the new SQL2XLSX command that will allow you to create XLSX worksheet

(Henrik Loeser) Sometimes it’s quite hard to keep an overview of what is going on with the IBM Cloud. I had been out on vacation and needed to catch up.

Joe Geller discusses some favorite tuning tips for Db2 in this video recorded at IDUG EMEA in Lisbon last month.

(Dino Quintero, Fabio Martins, Eduardo Luis Cerdas Moya and Rafael Camarda Silva Folco) This IBM Redbooks publication describes how to implement an Open Platform for Database as a Service (DBaaS) on IBM Power Systems environment for Linux, and demonstrate the open source tools, optimization and best

(Lockwood Lyon) Big data has become extremely popular, especially because these applications can hold huge volumes of data. Big data appliances (hybrid software/hardware systems) could store very large amounts of data in single tables, larger than was possible in native Db2 tables.

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Jim described pervasive encryption for DB2 and the steps to implement it.

(Troy L Coleman) I recently received this question about upgrading to Db2 12:

(Paul Titheridge) IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 8 and later (V8.x) provides support for asynchronous messaging based on the Java Message Service (JMS) version 1.1 specification.