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Monday September 18
Z/OS
The Forum
LUW
Room 101
IMS
The Studio
8:00 – 9:00
Registration, Badge Pickup & Breakfast
Sponsored by DBI Software
9:00 – 9:20
Welcome & Introduction
9:20 – 10:15
Keynote
(The Forum)
Behind the birth of an accidental enterprise & beyond
Michael Kwok, Ph.D.
Director, Db2 / BigSQL / Data Virtualization / Lakehouse Development | IBM Data and AI
Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:20
ZOS-01
Database Administration Enhancements of Db2 13 for z/OS
Robert Catterall, IBM
LUW-01
Latest from the Lab
Keri Romanufa, IBM
Mike Springgay, IBM
IMS-01
New Function in IMS 2020-Current
Deepak Kohli, IBM
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:20
ZOS-02
Db2 for z/OS 101: Buffer Pools and Group Buffer Pools
Tori Felt, IBM
Keziah Knopp, IBM
LUW-02
Db2 purescale on LinuxONE
Dale McInnis, IBM
IMS-02
Modernizing IMS Connect: Discuss ways to modernize IMS Connect to support newer technologies and architectures, such as cloud computing, RESTful APIs, and microservices
Santosh Dorge, BMC Software
Lunch – Sponsored by Broadcom
1:30 – 2:20
ZOS-03
It’s AI Jim, but not as we know it!
Roy Boxwell, SEGUS
LUW-03
Db2 Warehouse: Object Storage Tablespaces and Open Data Formats
Christian Garcia-Arellano, IBM
IMS-03
IMS Managed ACBs/Catalog Progress Report
Deepak Kohli, IBM
Coffee Break
2:30 – 3:20
ZOS-04
Analysis of DEADLOCK IFCID 172 in SMF with no special tool and low cost
Xiaodong Ma, CIBC
LUW-04
Unleashing the Potential of Columnar Tables in Db2
Satya Krishnaswamy, IBM
IMS-04
What to expect with the latest IBM IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer for Development
Haley Fung, IBM
3:30 – 4:20
ZOS-05
Who is afraid of DDF?
Toine Michielse, Broadcom
LUW-05
Recipes for Db2 Backups with Encryption, Compression, Hardware Acceleration and More Advanced Ingredients
Beck Tang, IBM
IMS-05
Best Practices for RESTfully Enabling your IMS
Suzie Wendler, IBM
4:20 – 5:30
Vendor Expo
Vendor Expo – Sponsored by IDUG & IBM
Tuesday September 19
Z/OS
The Forum
LUW
Room 101
IMS
The Studio
AppDev
Room 103
8:00 – 9:00
Breakfast
Breakfast
9:00 – 9:50
ZOS-06
Securing Db2 for z/OS Data: Encryption and Much More
Robert Catterall, IBM
LUW-UW-06
Db2 Ready for Modern Deployments and Workloads
Les King, IBM
IMS-MS-06
Managing the IMS catalog database from the DBA perspective
Tracy Dean, IBM
APP-PP-06
Db2 12 and 13 SQL and SQL PL Enhancements – The Latest Information
Chris Crone, Broadcom
Coffee Break – Sponsored by IDUG
10:00 – 10:50
ZOS-07
An Audit a day keeps the lawyers at bay!
Ulf Heinrich, SEGUS
LUW-07
Best practices for HADR performance
Hao Yan, IBM
IMS-MS-07
DevOps and IMS: The Journey Begins
Suzie Wendler, IBM
Haley Fung, IBM
APP-07
Db2 for z/OS, REST Services, and RESTful APIs
Tori Felt, IBM
Keziah Knopp, IBM
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:50
ZOS-08
Db2 for z/OS administrative and development tooling strategy: Customer feedback, roadmap and future direction
Sowmya Kameswaran, IBM
LUW-08
A Db2 Security Primer
Cyrus Ng, IBM
IMS-08
Deleting those “pesky” older instances of DBDs & PSBs from the IMS Catalog
Deepak Kohli, IBM
APP-08
Db2 Hot Topics from Progressive Insurance
Bob Vargo, Progressive
Dustin Ratliff, Progressive
Lunch Sponsored by SEGUS
1:00 – 1:50
ZOS-09
Partition By Range (PBR) and Relative Page Number (RPN) explained
Frank Rhodes, BMC
LUW-09
ML Optimizer
Calisto Zuzarte, IBM
IMS-09
Everything you wanted to know about the IMPORT command but were afraid to ask
Deepak Kohli, IBM
APP-09
Explain explained. What is explain telling me and how to optimize
Toine Michilese, Broadcom
Coffee Break
2:00 – 2:50
ZOS-10
Unicode Basics
Chris Crone, Broadcom
LUW-10
Demystifying Recovery – Top Questions From Customers Answered
Wei Cao, IBM
Roger Zheng, IBM
IMS-10
Hands-on Lab: IMS Buffet of Labs
Tracy, Suzie, Dennis
IBM
APP-10
Bringing Db2 for z/OS-Based Applications Into the Modern Age
Robert Catterall, IBM
Coffee Break – Sponsored by IDUG
3:00 – 3:50
ZOS-11
Db2 for z/OS and System Profile Monitoring: overview and Db2 13 enhancements
Mark Rader, IBM
LUW-11
Decoding Db2 Security Bulletins
Mitchell Waite, IBM
IMS-11
Hands-on Lab: IMS Buffet of Labs
Tracy, Suzie, Dennis
IBM
APP-11
Db2 SQL – go beyond the usual – My current TOP 40 SQL tips, tricks, and opinions
Brian Laube, Manulife