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Keynote
Keynote Speaker
Greg Lotko
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mainframe Division
Broadcom
Db2 for z/OS
- ZOS-01 || Db2 13 for z/OS Latest Features || Mark Rader, Keziah Knopp, Tori Felt – IBM – WSC
- ZOS-02 || The Db2 for z/OS Catalog and Directory The Past, Present, and Future || John Lyle – IBM – SVL
- ZOS-03 || Mastering Db2 for z/OS Application Performance: Strategies for Success || Toine Michielse – Broadcom
- ZOS-04 || Audit your Db2 for z/OS – Isn‘t she aDORAble!! || Roy Boxwell – SEGUS
- ZOS-05 || Db2 for z/OS Health Check Topics || Tori Felt, Keziah Knopp, Mark Rader – IBM WSC
- ZOS-06 || Universal Tablespace update as of V13 || David Simpson – Huntington
- ZOS-07 || Db2 for z/OS and Db2 Administration Foundation: An Installation Experience || Tori Felt – IBM WSC
- ZOS-08 || How to access Db2 for z/OS (and other Z data) in the cloud || Mehmet Cuneyt Goksu – IBM
- ZOS-09 || How to Recover When Recovery Seems Impossible || Chad Reiber – BMC
- ZOS-10 || 40 Years of Battle Scars from Managing Db2 for z/OS || Steen Rasmussen – Broadcom
Db2 LUW
- LUW-01 || Db2 Latest from the Lab || Mike Springgay – IBM
- LUW-02 || IBM Database AI Assistant for Db2 || David Kalmuk – IBM
- LUW-03 || Db2 SaaS – An update and a look into the future || Andrew Hilden – IBM
- LUW-04 || Modernizing Db2 workloads on OpenShift/Kubernetes || Aruna De Silva – IBM
- LUW-05 || What’s New and Coming Soon in Backup, Recovery, Log Mgmt, & HADR || Ryan Xi – IBM
- LUW-06 || Optimizing Db2 LUW Performance with REORG: A Deep Dive into Db2 Tables and REORG Operations || Wei Cao – IBM
- LUW-07 || Demystifying LOBs in Db2 LUW – Storage, Performance, and Best Practices || Chris Stojanovski – IBM
- LUW-08 || Backup & Transaction Logs – Performance Tuning and Pruning || April Lico – IBM
- LUW-09 || Vector Support in IBM Db2: Powering Modern AI Applications || Shaikh Quader – IBM
- LUW-10 || Leveraging cloud-native features of Db2 12.1 Warehouse on AWS EKS || Janpreet Singh Chandhok – IBM
IMS
- Introduction to IMS Day
- IMS-01 || IMS Managed ACBs Update || Depak Kohli – IBM
- IMS-02 || Get With The Program: Understand What IMS Applications Can Do, and How To Benefit From APIs || Suzie Wendler – IBM
- IMS-03 || Improving the IMS DBA and system programmer experience with a web browser interface || Tracy Dean – IBM
- IMS-04 || Navigating the Nuances of IMS DDL: A Beginner’s Expedition || Radek Mrvec – Broadcom
- IMS-05 || Keeping the IMS Catalog Healthy: Utilities || Dennis Eichelberger – IBM
- IMS-06 || IMS Common Service Layer (CSL) Introduction || Deepak Kohli – IBM
- IMS-07 || Innovative Customer Solutions to IMS Challenges || Gary Turner – BMC
- IMS-08 || IMS transaction orchestration for IMS Connect and MQSeries || Deepak Kohli – IBM
- IMS-09 || IMS, analytics, and data streaming, oh my! || Tracy Dean – IBM
- IMS-10 || IMS Catalog Implementation: Some Missteps that Should be Avoided || Dennis Eichelberger – IBM
AppDev
- APP-01 || Application Modernization – Considered these Db2 for z/OS Capabilities? || Maryela Weihrauch – IBM (Distinguished Engineer)
- APP-02 || Transform your mainframe experience w/ conversational AI & automation || Sowmya Kameswaran – IBM SVL
- APP-03 || Strategies for Making Db2 Data Accessible with APIs || Chris Crone – Broadcom
- APP-04 || Leveraging VS Code for Mainframe Application Development with Db2 || Vaughn Marshall – Broadcom
- APP-05 || Leveraging Metrics to Enhance IMS & Db2 Performance || John Baker – IBM
- APP-06 || Exploit Certificates and eliminate tiresome password-pains in z/OS and USS || Ulf Heinrich – SEGUS
- APP-07 || Breaking News: API-Driven Mainframe Access Ensures Security and Efficiency || Toine Michielse – Broadcom
- APP-08 || Enhance Db2 Performance with Multi-Row Processing Techniques || Chris Crone – Broadcom
- APP-09 || Db2 for z/OS 101: This or That? Tools to interact with Db2 for z/OS! || Anna McKee & Bridget Berry – IBM WSC
- APP-10 || FUN WITH SQL – interactive SQL challenges for all! || David Simpson – Huntington Bank + IDUG content, Brian Laube – Manulife Financial + IDUG content committee