Events

Separate panels for DB2 z/OS and DB2 LUW, with top DB2 specialist and customers presenting.

To mention: for DB2 z/OS Paweł Hryb - PKO BP

Steve Thomas - CA Technologies

Ramon Menendez - BMC

Philippe Dubost and Denis Tronin z CA Technologies

Piotr Kolasiński - Vctl, Kamosft

Patryk Wojtowicz - IBM Polska

Gareth Jones - IBM Silicon Valley Lab

and DB2 LUW:

Les King - IBM Toronto Lab

Rafał Gulbas - Decsoft

Jan Nelken - IBM Krakow

Lab Tomasz Kraszucki - Asseco

Adam Hajda - Gabos/Wasko

Marcin Marczewski - IBM Krakow

Agenda:

DB2 11/12 - Jørn Thyssen
- Status and focus on new development features and SQL
DB2 Availability and Autonomity - Haakon Roberts
- Automate and lower your costs of database management for Cloud or Mobile
DB2 Accelerator - Patric Becker
- Version 5.1 and the new usecases
- Optimize your System z with DB2 and the Accelerator and the Accelerator Loader
Agile development Architecture for DB2 - Flemming Petersen
- Input for a complete architecture
DB2 & Mobile - Jane Man
- Learn how to build your mobi

Agenda:

DB2 11/12 - Jørn Thyssen
- Status and focus on new development features and SQL
DB2 Availability and Autonomity - Haakon Roberts
- Automate and lower your costs of database management for Cloud or Mobile
DB2 Accelerator - Patric Becker
- Version 5.1 and the new usecases
- Optimize your System z with DB2 and the Accelerator and the Accelerator Loader
Agile development Architecture for DB2 - Flemming Petersen
- Input for a complete architecture
DB2 & Mobile - Jane Man
- Learn how to build your mobi

Join IDUG Volunteers on 1 April 2016 at 10am CDT/11am EDT to learn about the upcoming IDUG conference in Austin Texas May 23-26. 

Register for FREE Webinar

Meeting date changed to March 17

Agenda will be available soon

There is unexpected beauty hidden everywhere in this world

Tuning is being capable of optimizing the parameter settings of a system in order to maximize the objective of a certain functionality.  Beautiful definition, isn’t it ?

Looking at the number of pages of consecutive IBM Redbook publications describing the performance enhancements of new DB2 versions, they ranged from 478 for DB2 Version 8 to 346 pages for DB2 11. Is the size of the Redbooks a measure of the complexity of tuning a DB2 syste

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TRDEX and DVDUG is sponsoring an education day.  Themis will teaching a one day class, Using DB2 for z/OS Extended Features to Solve Complex Requirements  at a cost of $250 per student.  Class will be held on 3/16 in New York and on 3/18 in Malvern, PA. 

For more details, email TRIDEX@comcast.net

Paul Walters from Navy Federal Credit Union is a frequent and popular speaker at many conferences, including IDUG and Insight.  Join Paul for this exciting DB2 11 update. 

Paul will discuss how he was able to reorganize large amounts of data in support of the expanded DB2 11 RBA/LRSN format. Paul will cover how he used IBM's REORG utility and DB2 Sort for z/OS to meet performance goals while reducing CPU usage. 

Paul will also cover some of his current best practices that you can immediately apply

IDUG DB2 Technical Seminar in Bengaluru, India March 15 2016

REGISTER NOW

Location

Call for Presentation CLOSED

This is an unique opportunity for all DB2 professionals in Bangalore and the rest of India to gain valuable in-depth technical training.

There are limited places so book your place to avoid disappointment.

IDUG DB2 Technical Seminar in Chennai, India March 10 2016 REGISTER NOW

This is an unique opportunity for all DB2 professionals in India and the rest of India to gain valuable in-depth technical training.

There are limited places so book your place to avoid disappointment.

Attached PDF contains WDUG March's Agenda

2016%2002%20Journal.pdf       

                                                                                           Here is direction to our WDUG March's Meeting

Directions: Aurora St. Luke's South Shore is located in Cudahy on S. Lake Drive, just north of College Avenue.

Exit I-94 at College Avenue and proceed east until College ends at Lake Drive.  Then turn north.
*Note: Use the Main Entrance and follow the signs to the meeting.

Parking: Free parking

See the announcement and/or registration sites:

http://ibm.biz/STLDUG201603

http://ibm.biz/STLDUG201603_Registration

Fifty percent or more of a large enterprise’s data – especially the lifeblood online transaction processing (OLTP) data – likely resides on IBM z Systems (aka mainframe) computers.  In many organizations, mainframes remain a black box outside the “glass house” data center.  Yet the rich transactional data they contain are crucial to predictive analytics, such as fraud detection, and real-time data warehousing applications such as point-of-sale market basket analysis.

This lunch session is intende

DB2's GOT TALENT 2016 is presented by The DB2Night Show on 26 February, 4 March, and 11 March.  The contest is sponsored by IDUG, Triton Consulting, and DBI Software.  Every contestant earns an honorarium prize ranging from $10 to $75 depending on evaluation of our judges.  The 1st place prize is a badge to an IDUG conference, and 2nd place provides a new Apple iPad.  More contestants are needed.

Please visit http://www.dbisoftware.com/db2nightshow/db2sgottalent.php to learn more about the contes

Hi

the next DeDUG - the DB2 user group meeting - a German IDUG regional user group will be in Munich  (Germany) on February 19th

Registration for this free event & aganda (will be posted soon on):
http://www.ids-system.de/news-events/db2_regional_slide.html

best regards
Michael Tiefenbacher

20 minutes webinar on DB2 z/OS SQL Performance Tuning

February 18th, 2016

at 1 pm EST (New York)

at 19.00 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid)

Register

In this webinar we will show you several different ways to look at the data already available on your machine and outline some proactive methods to improve DB2 z/OS SQL Performance.

We are presenting 4 new Use Cases

1 – Bufferpool Usage
2 – PKLIST Chains
3 – Application Workload
4 – SQL Time Travel

https://www.seg.de/en/events/webinars/tuning-your-db2-zos-sql-perfo

Are you still coding like it’s the 90s? In this free webinar David Simpson of Themis will cover some overlooked SQL enhancements in the latest releases of DB2 with a special focus on features that have been most useful in real DB2 environments. 

This webinar is intended for all DB2 z/OS and LUW developers/DBAs. 

Register at www.themisinc.com/webinars

The DB2 Utilities Suite has always been known for its timely and dependable support for everything DB2 for z/OS from beta thru GA and beyond.  As a DB2 for z/OS customer, you count on the reliability, integrity and performance of your DB2 data. 

Join Haakon Roberts,  IBM DE and Architect, who'll cover the following topics:

• Why the IBM DB2 Utilities Suite is an essential component of your database management system
• Latest performance and usability enhancements since the release of DB2 11
• A peek into