In the recent customers’ conference calls, a lot of customers are confused about Db2 for z/OS JSON capability and Native REST services. They think they are the same thing. In fact, they are completely different. In this article, I will describe the difference and share the questions I have been...
A RESTful Approach for Working with Db2 Customers have a wealth of data in their databases (not just Db2) and publishing it to different devices is often fraught with many challenges. Db2 requires the use of client code to communicate between the application and the database itself. Many of...
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Introduction With DB2 for z/OS customers expanding their business presence into the mobile client world, solution developers are seeking more efficient ways to leverage existing data and business logic to support this. The REST (Representational State Transfer) native API implemented in DB2...
The topic for the IDUG Content Committee for February 2018 is “RESTful”. If you have been watching the progress of Db2 over the last few years then this is a topic which you will have seen mentioned many times. This is particularly true in the Db2 for z/OS space, which appears to be leading...
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. In the following sections, I will give a...
Applications focused around mobile devices are becoming increasingly important in large enterprises. RESTful APIs pay an important role in this area. From the following whitepaper, learn how you can expose DB2 functionality through RESTful APIs that are fully integrated in the DB2 distributed...
DB2 for z/OS NoSQL Support Update: REST and JSON Daniel Luksetich, DanL Database consulting danl@db2expert.com The DB2 landscape is changing quickly, and sometimes things can quietly sneak in before you even realize it. Maybe you have heard IBMers talking about JSON support in DB2,...