IBM® Data Server Manager is a web-based, integrated database management tools platform that helps you manage the following databases: IBM Db2® for Linux, UNIX, Windows IBM Db2 for z/OS® databases IBM dashDB® for Analytics IBM Db2 on Cloud (formerly IBM dashDB for Transactions) IBM dashDB Local IBM Data Server Manager helps you administer, monitor, manage and optimize the performance of IBM Db2 databases. Organizations want to make sure that this powerful database management tool... [More]

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Here is an opportunity to save time and stress! In my various roles as an IBM level 2 support engineer and an IBM Added Value Specialist, I spend much of my time working out why things don't work in quite the way we expect them to. I have recently published two IBM Redbooks web docs to aid anyone who is taking advantage of the exciting ability to integrate a Box repository environment with IBM Content Navigator.   The document... [More]

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Watson Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a service composed of a collection of text analysis functions that derive semantic information from content. You can input text, HTML, or a public URL, and leverage sophisticated natural language processing techniques to get a quick high-level understanding of your content and obtain detailed insights. With Natural Language Understanding (a new rendition of the Alchemy Language API which has been deprecated), developers can analyze semantic features... [More]

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We recently were part of the team that authored the IBM Redbooks Building Cognitive Applications with IBM Watson Services: Volume 2 Conversation . This book describes how the Watson Conversation service can be used to create chatbots and user agents that understand natural language input and communicate with your users simulating a real human conversation. It provides examples of applications that integrate the Watson Conversation service with other... [More]

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By Dean Brown, Lead Database Administrator, GTS   APAR number PI62566 delivers significant new functionality to the LOAD utility in the ability to specify constants during the LOAD process. The constant can be a character string, integer, null or date timestamp.   The following examples show how to use LOAD CONSTANT with different data types.    Here are some examples of the use of CONSTANT in a LOAD job for a character field and 2 date/time related fields: USER_ID... [More]

We are very pleased to inform you the IBM Redbooks team has just published the following API Connect Redpapers: •     Getting Started with IBM API Connect Concepts and Architecture Guide, REDP5349 •     Getting Started with IBM API Connect Scenarios Guide, REDP5350 The “ Concepts and Architecture Guide ” gives a broad overview of APIs and API Connect and... [More]

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The cloud has fueled the rise of small business. Even though small businesses do not have the diversity and depth of capabilities that exist in the enterprise, they are able to bring a new dimension to users; especially users who rely on mobile devices. That dimension is the ability to move with agility. Because small businesses are able to recognize and react to customer needs quickly they are able to provide new services in less time than their enterprise class competitors. This speed to... [More]

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IBM and Box have forged a global partnership that will combine the best-in-class technologies and resources of both companies to transform work in the cloud. This partnership can help individuals, organizations, and industries easily and securely access, edit, share and apply analytics to business information. This strategic partnership combines the strengths of both companies to deliver new client value so that IBM can address customers' increasing needs for productivity, security, and... [More]

IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5 is a powerful, mixed-language application server that meets the transaction-processing needs of both large and small enterprises. It builds on z/OS and IBM z Systems facilities to provide high availability and scalability at a low cost per transaction; it supports large transaction volumes with a fast and consistent response time. In my role as performance test lead for CICS, I have presented at many conferences around the world. The most popular sessions... [More]

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Parameswaran Venkatraman is a software engineer in IBM StoredIQ of Enterprise Content Management group at IBM India Software Labs. He has a Bachelor degree in Information Technology with over four years of IT experiences in design and development of front-end, API, and visual effect. As a part of the engineering team, he works extensively across StoredIQ product suite and applications. His primary responsibilities are designing and implementing features for user interface and application layer.... [More]

  IBM® Enterprise Content Management (ECM) portfolio software enables the largest organizations in the world to make better decisions, faster. By gaining control of structured and unstructured information, organizations can access, collaborate, and influence business decisions in new ways, making content a first-class source of insight. With industry-specific IBM ECM solutions, organizations can capture, manage, and share content throughout the information lifecycle, helping to ensure... [More]

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IBM CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® V5 provides a powerful platform for running Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) applications. CICS customers looking to exploit this technology frequently ask for advice on how best to exploit the connection options available between their JEE applications and their data held by DB2 for z/OS servers. In his recent IBM® Redpaper™ publication, Graham Rawson (a software performance analyst with the IBM CICS development team) uses TradeLite, the... [More]

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Matthew Roberts designs process improvement solutions for IBM clients across the UK and Ireland. As a member of the UKI technical sales team, Matt leads the adoption of IBM Operational Decision Manager Advanced within systems of insight. In this role, Matt builds proof of concept prototypes and leads the technical specification of new Smarter Process solutions. Matt is a certified developer for IBM Operational Decision Manager and IBM Business Process Manager. He holds a Master of Computer... [More]

Alexander Kelly is a Performance Analyst at the IBM Lab in Hursley, UK. He has worked on IBM Operational Decision Manager Decision Server Insights? since the product was first developed. He specializes in the clustered configuration of the product, and the database persistence of contextual data. This blog post is adapted from an excerpt of the forthcoming IBM Redbooks publication Systems of Insight in the Digital Transformation Era , SG24-8293. In this sample, our aim is to use the capabilities... [More]