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This workshop is a technical, hands-on workshop. You will leave this Proof of Technology with an end to end technical foundation in IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator including:

• Enabling the Accelerator

• Loading Data to the Accelerator and Accelerating Queries

• Incremental Update of Data in the Accelerator

• High Performance Storage Saver

• Data Studio Administration

• Installation Overview

• Performance Analysis

• Common Pitfalls

With the speed of business today, and the need to make fast, fact-based dec

REGISTER NOW: http://bit.ly/1t0g8jA 

Webcast: Big Data - Big Agriculture with IBM DB2 for z/OS

Broadcast Date:  May 20, 2014, 11:00 a.m. , EDT / 3:00 p.m. GMT / 4:00 p.m. BST

IBM Host: Surekha Parekh, Market Manager, Information Management, IBM Software Group

Speaker:  Bryan Paulsen, Technology Architect, John Deere

Developed for:  IT Architects, Enterprise Architects, IT Management, Application Programmers,  Application Development Management, Data Base Administrators, Data Base Management,

This workshop is a technical, hands-on workshop. You will leave this Proof of Technology with an end to end technical foundation in IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator including:

• Enabling the Accelerator

• Loading Data to the Accelerator and Accelerating Queries

• Incremental Update of Data in the Accelerator

• High Performance Storage Saver

• Data Studio Administration

• Installation Overview

• Performance Analysis

• Common Pitfalls

With the speed of business today, and the need to make fast, fact-based dec

In-depth sessions cover a wide range of topics, including:

• Is your enterprise ready for the mobile and Big Data Phenomenon?

• DB2 11 Technical Overview - Learn How DB2 11 works with Hadaoop/Big Insights

• Getting the most from  IBM  DB2® Analytics Accelerator

• The DevOps approach to building quality applications at maximum efficiency

• CICS® V5.1: Scalability and availability for a mobile world

• Demonstrating governance, risk and compliance on your mainframe

Designed for: DB2 DBAs, database archit

DB2 for z/OS Crammer Class to be held at IDUG conference in Phoenix, AZ.

 May 12, 2014, from 8:30am to 5:00 pm:

 DB2 10 for z/OS System Admin Crammer Class for Certification Exam 617
Session Number: 1394

See you there!

IDUG DB2 Tech Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, USA 2014

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Key Note Speaker - Donald Feinberg from Gartner 

Donald Feinberg is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Intelligence in the Information Management group. Mr. Feinberg is responsible for Gartner's research on database management systems and data warehousing infrastructure and Big Data.

Call for Presentations:
The Call for Presentations is now closed. Thank you everyone who took time to submit their abstract(

Seating is limited so please register by May 2, 2014.  Send your name, email, phone, and company information to Shirley Hibbitts at hibbits@us.ibm.com to register.

IBM is hosting a one day, no-charge comprehensive review of the capabilities, considerations, and project planning for DB2 11.  This workshop enables attendees to gain an appreciation for the breadth of new functions delivered in DB2 11 and the enhanced migration process.

This workshop includes content appropriate for application develo

Do you want to know how to simplify your migrations and upgrades - whether its new versions of DB2 or SAP or making sure your all your DB2 environments are in sync?  Join Bill Anani from AIG who'll share his tips and techniques to managing large DB2 and DB2 SAP environments.

Use this URL to register:

http://ibmurl.hursley.ibm.com/4B0C 

Please register by April 18, 2014.  Send your name, email, phone, and company information to Jeff Merritt at jdmerritt@us.ibm.com to register.

IBM is hosting a one-day, no-charge comprehensive review of the capabilities, considerations, preparations, and project planning for DB2 11.  This workshop enables attendees to gain an appreciation for the breadth of features delivered in DB2 v11 and the enhanced migration process.  

This workshop includes content appropriate for application developers, DBA

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR LIMITED PERIOD - LIMITED PLACES

Call for Speakers Now Open

As part of IDUG and IBM efforts to expand the availability of DB2 education, we are pleased to offer a FREE one day Technical Seminar in London.

This special event will have two of IBM's top Distinguished Engineers, John Campbell from the Silicon Valley Lab and Namik Hrle from the Boeblingen lab, as guest speakers.

This is an unique opportunity for all DB2 professionals in London and the rest of England to ga

Register now:   http://ibm.co/1c8Bshv

Do you want to optimize mission-critical SAP solutions? DB2 11 is ready to help

Topics

• Architecture of SAP on IBM System z and DB2 for z/OS
• Benefits of DB2 11 and z/OS 2.1 for SAP solutions and other enterprise applications
• Migration of SAP systems to DB2 11
• DB2 11 related enhancements to the SAP DBA cockpit and cloud technologies  

Speakers:

• Johannes Schuetzner, Senior Technical Staff Member, SAP on DB2 for z/OS Development, IBM Software Group
• Bernd Ko

Hello,

The next SIRDUG meeting will take place from 8:00am to 3:45pm on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. The meeting is being held at the Lowes Corporate Center in Mooresville.

For session abstracts and speaker bios, please see the full announcement at http://sirdug.org/IDUG_Preview_April_15_2014.htm.

The speakers and topics are

Mary Ellen Archer - Mastering the DB2 Performance Metrics System with Down Home Country Performance Tools
Robert Catterall - Going Native: Leveraging DB2 for z/OS SQL Procedures and

In-depth sessions cover a wide range of topics, including:

• Is your enterprise ready for the mobile and Big Data Phenomenon?

• DB2 11 Technical Overview - Learn How DB2 11 works with Hadaoop/Big Insights

• Getting the most from  IBM  DB2® Analytics Accelerator

• The DevOps approach to building quality applications at maximum efficiency

• CICS® V5.1: Scalability and availability for a mobile world

• Demonstrating governance, risk and compliance on your mainframe

Designed for: DB2 DBAs, database archit

Seating is limited so please register by April 4, 2014.  Send your name, email, phone, and company information to Shirley Hibbitts at hibbits@us.ibm.com to register.

IBM is hosting a one day, no-charge comprehensive review of the capabilities, considerations, and project planning for DB2 11.  This workshop enables attendees to gain an appreciation for the breadth of new functions delivered in DB2 11 and the enhanced migration process.

This workshop includes content appropriate for application deve

In-depth sessions cover a wide range of topics, including:

• Is your enterprise ready for the mobile and Big Data Phenomenon?

• DB2 11 Technical Overview - Learn How DB2 11 works with Hadaoop/Big Insights

• Getting the most from  IBM  DB2® Analytics Accelerator

• The DevOps approach to building quality applications at maximum efficiency

• CICS® V5.1: Scalability and availability for a mobile world

• Demonstrating governance, risk and compliance on your mainframe

Designed for: DB2 DBAs, database archit

Access Path DB2GO webinar:
Rescuing your Access Paths, be they static or dynamic, and clarifying the rather opaque IBM Plan Stability management.
  
Webinar presented by SEGUS & SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

This 30 - 45 minute webinar will introduce you to our new pocket tool: RUNSTATS Rescue >>.                      

In this webcast we will show you the complete RUNSTATS Rescue interface with live demos!

Register >>

Please join us on Wednesday 3^rd April, 2014 :
Check your time zone
- at 6 pm BST (Britisc

In-depth sessions cover a wide range of topics, including:

• Is your enterprise ready for the mobile and Big Data Phenomenon?

• DB2 11 Technical Overview - Learn How DB2 11 works with Hadaoop/Big Insights

• Getting the most from  IBM  DB2® Analytics Accelerator

• The DevOps approach to building quality applications at maximum efficiency

• CICS® V5.1: Scalability and availability for a mobile world

• Demonstrating governance, risk and compliance on your mainframe

Designed for: DB2 DBAs, database archit

Don't miss SQLAdria seminar in Ljubljana with Jan Man from IBM Silicon Valley Lab.

Agenda:
- Overview about XMLQuery, XMLExists, XMLCast , XQuery, XMLTABLE, XMLModify
- XML parsing, publishing and XML schema validation
- Demo using XML in DB2 for z/OS
- XML Best Practices for Application Developers
- XML Update for DB2 11 for z/OS

User topic with Bernard Zver, Informatika d.d.
- DB2 Admin Stored Procedures

Location: Central Hotel, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Registration and more info: http

Nordic DB2 Seminar,

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One full day seminar, where we focus on DB2 Use for DB2 developers, Architects, DB2 DBAs and other personnel having DB2 in their work description.

This year DB2 11 functionality is in focus featuring speaks on:  DB2 11, Autonomy & Availability, SQL Optimization and Tuning, Analytics and Big Data 

Distributed platforms have not gone away just because mainframes regained their place in the enterprise.
Instead, distributed computing infrastructures have evolved. Nowadays people try to marry the ease and strength of distributed platforms with the unmatched strength of mainframe technology.
This shift presents new challenges for you as DB2 specialist, and brings up questions about how set up for DRDA access and how to manage performance for distributed threads, and where DB2 Connect fits into