IBM

Amplify 2015 is IBM’s conference for Digital Marketing and Commerce. This is a big year for IBM as they look to take advantage of their cloud capabilities and bring together all of the systems they have purchased over the last few years. Alex Banayan kicked off the opening session talking about how life has changed […]

Introduction: High availability is always an important topic, which is often thought at end of the project or even sometimes at the time of downtime/disaster. While it is challenging to set up high availability environment, as you have to spare time and money to complete; here is my attempt to provide you with a prototype […]

A couple of weeks ago IBM announced the release of IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.7.1. The latest release delivers further enhancements for business user experience in Decision Center and Decision Server Rules, enhance platform operations for Decision Server Insights, and enhanced performance. The planned availability date for IBM ODM V8.7.1 is May 15, 2015. Decision […]

This is a continuation of our previous discussion on getting started with Social Network Analysis (SNA). So now that we can do some SNA with NodeXL, how do you now go out and catch the bad guys?  Well, remember, SNA is a network of entities.  So let’s take auto insurance fraud for example and show […]

It’s not every day you hear the word “trillion” unless you are in the B2B Online Retail business. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Future of B2B Online Retailing, reveals that B2B online sales will account for close to 27 per cent of total manufacturing trade, which is likely to hit 25 trillion $ by […]

Earlier this year, we examined how IBM Watson can help healthcare organizations analyze vast quantities of unstructured data to gain quick insights from previously untapped data sources. We found that the content analytics solution, along with IBM’s healthcare tools and accelerators, uncovers valuable intelligence from disparate healthcare data and content, including physician notes, patient surveys, […]

We all have moments when we just feel right about something. On Tuesday, we met with Red Hat to discuss our partnership as we expand our Open Source Services. During the visit, I learned how Red Hat got its name – to read more about the story… check the link http://www.computerworld.com/article/2548974/linux/ever-wonder-how-red-hat-got-its-name-.html What sticks out to […]

Earlier this week, I read a news article about the use of Twitter, or more accurately, the use of data collected from Twitter to prohibit a passenger from boarding a United Airlines flight. Strangely enough, the person banned from the flight was probably among the people who should know the most about cyber-security and perceived […]

Introduction: In general for message modeling COBOL  copybook layouts we use the DFDL parser within IBM Integration Bus Toolkit  to model and generate the DFDL schema . In some cases we find COBOL layout errors in generating the message model. We might think that once a COBOL  copybook is defined in the mainframe environment and is working why would it error out ? One of […]

Introduction: This article will outline the necessary steps to be taken with respect to calling existing CICS programs from IBM Integration Bus ( IIB ) using COMMAREA  data structures. The COMMAREA  specifies the name of a data area ( known as Communication Area in CICS Region) in which data is passed to a program or transaction. The maximum length of the COMMAREA  cannot be larger […]

I bought a new car last month. The last time I bought a car was 10 years ago, and oh, how the times have changed. 10 years ago buying a car was not a pleasant experience; in fact it was downright stressful. My experience this year was in a word – easy. With today’s digital […]

Part 1:  What is Social Network Analysis and how do I get started quickly? I am going to be sharing with you the path that I took to get myself up to speed on Social Network Analysis (SNA) using SPSS Modeler.  If you are new to SNA, or just curious on what SNA is all […]