(Lockwood Lyon) Many businesses want to get their latest applications in front of customers as quickly as possible.
Tag: IBM
DB2 LUW Security: More Ways to Secure your System
(Dave Beulke) Over the years, I have developed many of my security practices and used many of the government security guidelines to perform security audits in client environments.
TechTip: Node.js DB2 Connection Pool
(Aaron Bartell) Being in a technology job has us playing the role of lifelong learner. I wouldn’t have it any other way because that’s one reason I like being in the technology field. It’s almost like putting together a never-ending puzzle, yet still having the satisfaction of completing incremental
Testing your Big Data Application – Part 3
(Lockwood Lyon) Typical application and systems testing involves various combinations of transactions, users, input data and resource load on the hardware and software. Often you will include a stress test, where you will increase data transaction loads more and more until something fails.
New and Changed Subsystem Parameters in DB2 11
(Troy L Coleman) Even though DB2 12 is now available, a fair number of customers are now or have recently migrated from DB2 10 to DB2 11. I know this because I’ve been getting queries about subsystem parameters (zparms) default changes in DB2 11.
Governing Operational Decisions in an Enterprise Scalable Way
(Jonathon Carr, Eric Charpentier, Nigel Crowther, Guillaume Devillers, Sophie Fargier and Julie Holm) This IBM Redbooks publication introduces operational decision governance and describes in details how to implement it using the IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) platform. ODM allows businesses
The DB2Night Show #Z79: zIIP Experiences: Exploitation Not Abuse
(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Adrian gave many tips for the proper use and exploitation of zIIP processors.
Combine business process management and blockchain
(Larissa Auberger and Matthias Kloppmann) Business process management streamlines business processes within an organization where participants normally trust each other. In contrast, blockchain enables the execution of business processes across multiple organizations and untrusted participants.
Testing your Big Data Application — Part 2
(Lockwood Lyon) In Part 1 we noted that several categories of testing are relevant to any big data application:
C# for RPGers: Taking C# Loops for a Spin
(Rafael Victoria-Pereira) A few TechTips ago, I talked about the FOR loop and how it works in C#. It’s now time to explain the other looping structures that this amazing language has to offer. I’ll be using the exact same test task in all of the code snippets: I’ll print a simple count from 1 to 5 u