(Craig S. Mullins) You know what a Jack-of-All-Trades is, don’t you? It is that person that always seems to have know-how on a topic or project that is helpful. They have a comprehensive knowledge of all things data- and IT-related and they are always helpful to have around. It is my assertion that

(Stephane Mery and Daniel Selman) Blockchain already has a profound impact on multi-party business processes. Organizations that use blockchain count on trusted automatic transactions. It provides a framework of trust that you can use to securely automate processes that, until now, were often manual

(Henrik Loeser) Db2 Warehouse recently added a new feature named external table. Because I was interested in that feature for a while and I have an instance of Db2 Warehouse on Cloud running in the IBM Cloud datacenter in Frankfurt, Germany, I performed some quick tests. Here is what it is and how I

(David Shirey) The starting point for our expedition into the world of the assorted Watson APIs will be the Visual Recognition feature that Watson provides: the ability to have Watson match up and identify an image that you have provided to it.

(Troy L Coleman) Db2 12 function level V12R1M500 introduces the capability to compress LOB table space using zEnterprise data compression (zEDC) hardware. This IBM Redbook offers a detailed look at zEDC.

(Javier Estrada Benavides) The need of organized, automated and user friendly data wrangling and data visualization has had an exponential growth in the data community, if you allow me to say that anyone working with data and the need to show or the need to manage and protect it is already part of t

(Lockwood Lyon) Big data applications have reached maturity, and are becoming popular in large enterprises. Initial implementations offered by vendors were plug-and-play with few opportunities for configuration or performance tuning.

(George Wangelien and Zachary Hoggard)The scope of this IBM Redpaper publication is to provide a high-level overview of automatic storage table spaces, table space maps, table space extent maps, and physically unbalanced data across automatic storage table space containers (that is, data skew). The

(Harishkumar Baburao Pathangay) How To Configure and Compile group plugin for DB2 in Linux

(Craig S. Mullins) Just a very brief blog post today to inform you about something that I ran across doing some web research today… and that is a free, web-based Coupling Facility sizing tool from IBM named CFSIZER.