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Keynote
Keynote
Martin Oberhofer
Vice President, Data Core Products
IBM
CCDUG Canadian Database Workshop Day: Monday May 11, 2026
Brand new this year, CCDUG is hosting a free Canadian Database Day on Monday May 11, 2026!
Db2 Z DBA
- ZOS-01 – Db2 for z/OS Key Updates and Future Direction – Akiko Hoshikawa – IBM
- ZOS-02 – You can do THAT with System Profile Monitoring??? – Mark Rader, Tori Felt, Anna McKee – IBM WSC
- ZOS-03 – Db2 for z/OS Encryption Introduction – Mark Rader, Tori Felt, Anna McKee – IBM WSC
- ZOS-04 – How Old is Your Data Strategy? Maybe it is Time to Modernize! – Richard Ruppel – IBM
- ZOS-05 – Hard Lessons Learned with High Performance DBATs for Db2 for z/OS – John Campbell – Broadcom
- ZOS-06 – Use AI to Gain Business Insights From Your Data … Now! – Richard Ruppel, Akiko Hoshikawa – IBM
- ZOS-07 – Ready Player One? – Roy Boxwell – Segus
- ZOS-08 – Autonomous Auditing of Native Db2 Security Features – Steen Rasmussen – Broadcom
- ZOS-09 – Db2 for z/OS Data Sharing: Performance Considerations – Mark Rader, Tori Felt, Anna McKee – IBM WSC
- ZOS-10 – Embrace The Future Today By Eliminating Deprecated Objects – Richard Ruppel, John Lyle – IBM
Db2 Z Misc/App-Dev
- ZMISC-01 – TBD – Infotel
- ZMISC-02 – DB2 z/OS Dynamic SQL Monitoring: Best Practices – Toine Michielse – Broadcom
- ZMISC-03 – Screening in a Virtualized Production Environment – Ulf Heinrich – Segus
- ZMISC-04 – Streamline Db2 Schema Management with Code4z – Jim Endler, Vaughn Marshall – Broadcom
- ZMISC-05 – Introduction to Quantum – Les King
- ZMISC-06 – Things I wish I’d remember…. – Michael Cotignola – BMC
- ZMISC-07 – What’s new in IBM Z Data Integration – M. Cüneyt Göksu – IBM WSC
- ZMISC-08 – All about Db2 for z/OS Packages – Mark Rader, Tori Felt, Anna McKee – IBM WSC
- ZMISC-09 – Mastering Digital Certificates: The Keys for Creating a Streamlined Experience – Kranthi Kumar Vemula – Broadcom
- ZMISC-10 – The Db2 for z/OS Agent – Lets have a Chat with the Catalog! – M. Cüneyt Göksu – IBM
Db2 LUW
- LUW-01 – Db2 Latest from Lab – Mike Springgay – IBM
- LUW-02 – Db2 Genius Hub: Introducing the New AI Assistant Powering the Autonomous Database Experience – Francis Wong, Bryan Tang – IBM
- LUW-03 – Introducing Db2 Serverless – Database Service for the AI Era – Andrew Hilden – IBM
- LUW-04 – The Next Generation of Containerized Db2 – Tony Sinclair, Janpreet Singh Chandhok – IBM
- LUW-05 – AI Innovations in Db2 – Raymond Yao – IBM
- LUW-06 – Accelerating AI Workloads in Db2 v12.1.5.0: Introducing High‑Performance Vector Indexes – Christian Garcia‑Arellano, Zach Hoggard – IBM
- LUW-07 – Datalake Tables in Db2: Open, Flexible Access to Your Data Wherever It Lives – Dominic So, Olivier Bernin – IBM
- LUW-08 – Deep Dive into the Reshaping of Db2’s Storage Architecture for Scalability with RocksDB – Alexander Cheung, Krishna Kumar Ramachandran, Rob Hooper – IBM
- LUW-09 – Pacemaker 101: Behavior, Functionality, and Troubleshooting Db2’s High-Availability Cluster Manager – Andrew Shen – IBM
- LUW-10 – ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE: The Swiss Army Knife for Database Administrators – Beck Tang, Zahidul Khan, Phil King – IBM
IMS
- IMS-01 – Boost IMS Performance, Reduce Costs: The IBM PA Advantage – Bhaskar Gupta – IBM
- IMS-02 – Navigating the IMS Database 4/8GB limitations – Gary Turner – BMC
- IMS-03 – IMS Database Reorganization: Why, When, and How – Rabah Beggar – Broadcom
- IMS-04 – Dynamic Resources and the IMS Repository (IMSRSC) – Ashley Lopez – IBM
- IMS-05 – Using IMS Connect with OTMA/ODBM – Understanding the architecture for Integration – Suzie Wendler – IBM WSC
- IMS-06 – Securing IMS Connect Workloads – Tracy Dean – IBM
- IMS-07 – What if you had to quickly recover an IMS database, could you? – Jonathan Howells – IBM
- IMS-08 – From Copybooks to SQL: Modernizing IMS Metadata with the IMS Catalog – Gary Turner – BMC
- IMS-09 – Accessing IMS with a Web UI, Eclipse Tooling, and Java – Andrew Urso – IBM WSC
- IMS-10 – IMS and OpenTelemetry – John Maher – IBM