Events

DB2 Aktuell provides technical information of DB2 for z/OS and LUW for German speaking customers and Business Partners.

Jase Alpers from IBM will be our featured speaker.  He'll present the following topics.

Runstats Challenges for Optimal Query Performance -
Accurate and relevant statistics are the basis of reliable good query performance.  How do I identify the important statistics?  How do I manage statistics collection?  What new features does DB2 for z/OS provide to help with runstats challenges?  In this session, we'll answer these questions and more as we discuss various runstats challenges and misconceptio

September 12^th, 2016 Meeting

Our third meeting for 2016 will feature Roy Boxwell (SEGUS), Kai Stroh (UBS Hainer), and Jase Alpers (IBM). During the lunch hour we will have an optional product demo by Ulf Heinrich – Director of Solutions Delivery at SEGUS.

Here is our agenda for the September 12th meeting:
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8:00 to 8:30 am Check in and continental breakfast
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This webcast focuses how IT is critical to realizing the goals outlined by the application users.  We’ll cover specific customer use cases using the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator and the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator Loader.

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Come join Adrian Burke from the DB2 SWAT Team and Steen Rasmussen from CA for a full day of DB2 for z/OS topics including:

• FEEDBACK Tables and Profiles - is it a Dream?
• What's Hidden in the Archives -
       DB2's Answer to 'American Pickers'?
• DB2 for z/OS Distributed Access - In the Mobile Age
• Avoiding L2 Performance PMRs

What:  Summer TRIDUG Meeting

When:  Wednesday, August 17th, 2016

Where:  IBM Technical Exploration Center - RTP, NC

Cost:  $20

Register to attend at: http://www.tridug/org/events/

Agenda

08:15 - 09:00  Breakfast & Networking

09:00 - 09:15  Welcome - Prasad Mani, Tridug President

09:15 - 10:30  Apache Spark on z Systems - George Wang (IBM)

10:30 - 10:40 Break

10:40 - 12:00 IBM's Distributed LUW Database Technology Roadmap and Emerging Trends - Jay Holshauser & Kay Groski (IBM)

12:00 - 12:45 Lunch & Networki

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DB2 for z/OS in the Big Memory Era. This presentation provides an overview of the radical changes that are happening to the System z platform with regard to real storage, and how DB2 for z/OS is evolving to exploit them to deliver improved price/performance.

Julian is a highly experienced IBM Gold consultant with over 25 years relational database experience working with a number of clients within the insurance, telecommunications, banking, and manufacturing s

Speaker Jeff Josten will describe DB2 12, the next release of DB2 for z/OS that is currently in customer beta testing. DB2 12 adds new capabilities to take customers to the next level of mainframe leadership in the era of cloud and mobile. We've measured several millions of inserts/sec. for DB2 12 - these are fully logged and ACID compliant inserts.

The DB2Night Show has the simple mission of building a fun, interactive community around IBM^® DB2^®. Each episode will include fun stuff, education, t

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Essential things you must know about DB2 and Workload Manager (WLM)

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TIME: 21st June 11:00 EST  16:00 BST

Abstract:

Many organizations have workloads that could be described as a mix of short transactions and long-running queries having heterogeneous business importance. A common characteristic is the unpredictability of resources demand for each execution, but end user's response time expectations are always high.

How could we tune

SQLAdria traditional June seminar will take place from 12th to 16th June 2016. Beautiful new venue: Šibenik, Croatia.

Don't miss educational opportunities and experience the latest in DB2 technologies:
- Two tracks: zOS and LUW
- Great speakers: IBM Distinguished engineers, IBM Gold Consultants, IBM Champions
- Beside hot DB2 topics agenda will be expanded to new areas that exploit usage of DB2 
- One day seminar
- CA User Day
- Panel Discussion
And much more!

Target audience: Application Deve

SpDUG collaboration in IBM Workshop

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DB2 11 for z/OS Data Sharing and Continuous Availability enhancements

Abstract: This session will introduce and discuss the valuable and much needed major enhancements in DB2 11 related to continuous availability including data sharing. The Data Sharing enhancements will include: group buffer pool castout, CF DELETE_NAME, Restart light, locking, indexing and DSNB355/356I messages. The Availability enhancements will include: BIND/REBIND/DDL/Online REO

The seminar allows you to improve your knowledge on the DB2 for z/OS and reap the maximum benefits for your company. Learning directly from IBM experts and consultants, you can take advantage of the latest functions on DB2 for z/OS that affect scalability and performance, availability, management, security, application development, and usability in an IBM System z environment. 

Spain DB2 User Group One Day Seminars

The Central Canada DB2 User Group presents two EXCITING days of IMS for zOS, DB2 for LUW and DB2 for zOS education! The theme of this year’s conference is the forthcoming new releases of IMS 14 for zOS, DB2 12 for zOS and DB2 11 for LUW. Maryela Weihrauch, an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and George Baklarz, B. Math, M. Sc., Ph.D. Eng., of the Core Database Technical Sales group (aka DB2 for LUW) will be presenting on the new DBMS goodies. Favorite speakers such as Susan Lawson, Daniel Luksetich,

The DB2Night Show has the simple mission of building a fun, interactive community around IBM^® DB2^®. Each episode will include fun stuff, education, tips, and special guests. Guests will range from industry experts to "Joe the DBA"

Time is 10 AM Central US time- GMT -5

Tentative meeting date.

More details to follow.

Agenda

9:00 – 9:30 : Registration

9:30 - 10:30 : Keynote : ‘Bring on the Digital Enterprise’, John Barnard - CTO BMC

10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee break

12:45 – 13