(Lydia Parziale, Luiz Fadel and Stanley Jon) 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 in

(Denis Guillemenot) IBM WebSphere Application Server provides a service integration bus (SIBus) where you can create destinations (queues and topics) that you can map to Java Messaging Service (JMS) queues and topics.

(Troy L Coleman) Recently, someone on the DB2-L forum was seeking help with an application that started failing following an upgrade from Db2 for z/OS 10 to Db2 for z/OS 11.

(Robert Indrigo) Many of IBM’s database customers and independent software vendors have expressed interest in writing portable applications across multiple platforms. IBM is committed to delivering SQL commonality, on database platforms implementing the Common SQL Engine, in a way that is common and

(Joe Pluta) I like to use SQL primarily as a query tool. Its very name—Structured Query Language—sort of leans you in that direction. It’s also an excellent tool for set-based updates, as its many proponents will tell you.

(Lockwood Lyon) Data in motion refers to real-time collection and analysis of data from sources such as:

(Craig S. Mullins) Db2 12 for z/OS introduces a new privilege that, when granted, enables a user to be able to unload data using the DB2 IBM UNLOAD utility. In past releases, the SELECT privilege (or other higher level admin privileges) was required to unload data using the UNLOAD utility. But this

(Jane Man) With decade’s development of Db2 for z/OS, it provides a lot of wonderful features in each release. Among these features, some of them are extremely useful but less “well-known”. Pattern matching using regular expression is one of these hidden gems.

SQL extract provides access to the components of temporal data types—i.e. date, time, timestamp, and interval.

(Akiko Hoshikawa, Bart Steegmans, Bharat Verma, Brian Baggett, Chang Kim, Chongchen Xu, Chung Wu, Cristian Molaro, Jasmi Thekveli, Kaitlin E. Murray, Liang Zhang, Lingyun Wang, Mai Nguyen, Neena Cherian, Nguyen Dao, Ou Jin, Peng Huang, Ping Liang, Robert Boon, Todd Munk and Xue Lian Zhang) Db2 12 fo