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Db2 Web Query Gets ML-Powered Insights, Cloud DW Connection

November 2, 2022 Alex Woodie

Organizations adopting the latest release of Db2 Web Query will find new capabilities in the graphical designer, an automated insights generation function that uses machine learning as well as new capabilities in the data migration tool that will help customers move data to cloud data warehouses, among other capabilities.

Db2 Web Query is IBM’s flagship business intelligence offering for the IBM i platform. The software is based on WebFOCUS, the BI offering developed by Information Builders, with whom IBM has had an OEM relationship since 2007. In 2021, Information Builders was acquired by TIBCO Software, which has continued …
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TRs Deliver Database and SQL Updates for Every IBM i User

November 2, 2022 Alex Woodie

When it comes to SQL services and database updates, there’s something for just about every IBM i user in 7.5 TR1 and 7.4 TR7. With dozens of new and enhanced database functions and SQL services, these TRs in fact may be the biggest releases ever, according to Scott Forstie, the Db2 for i architect at IBM.

During a recent interview with IT Jungle about the new Watson geospatial capabilities that his team delivered in the database (which you can read about here), Forstie pondered the journey he and his team have been on, and how it’s culminated to this …
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OpenSSL Flaw No ‘Heartbleed,’ But Other New Vulns Detected

November 2, 2022 Alex Woodie

The cybersecurity world has been sitting on pins and needles for the past 48 hours, ever since news of a potentially devastating new flaw in OpenSSL started to leak out early Monday morning. That flaw turned out to be not as bad as initially feared, but that shouldn’t stop IBM i shops from patching other recent flaws, including some pretty serious ones in WebSphere Liberty, Java, the CCA, and Zlib.

News started to emerge earlier this week of a critical OpenSSL flaw that required the utmost attention. The flaw could be a concern for just about everybody, including IBM, …
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Four Hundred Monitor, November 2

November 2, 2022 Jenny Thomas

Welcome to the beginning of the quick slide into the holidays! The end of the year will be here before we know it, but that doesn’t mean you should start slowing down. It is important to continue to be vigilant with your data security, as we see in some of our Top Stories of the week. If you’ve got items for the Calendar, please send them my way as we are always looking to fill out this resource for our readers. It’s definitely not too early to start planning your 2023 travel schedule, although many events continue to offer that …
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The Numbers For Global IT Spending Are Up And To The Right

November 2, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

It is hard to say how much is an increase in investment and how much is inflation, but the numbers for global IT spending are up and to the right, according to the latest forecast from Gartner. For those of you who gauge your spending against that of the rest of the world – and that should be all of you for various reasons – such spending forecasts are as important as they are malleable.

It is hard enough to try to count all of the money changing hands around the world for hardware, software, and services relating to the …
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Db2 Web Query Gets ML-Powered Insights, Cloud DW Connection

TRs Deliver Database and SQL Updates for Every IBM i User

OpenSSL Flaw No ‘Heartbleed,’ But Other New Vulns Detected

Four Hundred Monitor, November 2

The Numbers For Global IT Spending Are Up And To The Right

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