IDUG NA 2025

Are you looking to become a certified Db2 for z/OS Administrator? If you’re preparing for the IBM certification exams C1000–184 (Associate) or C1000–181 (Professional), this presentation is for you. We will provide essential tips and recommendations to help you kickstart your preparation journey toward becoming an IBM Db2 for z/OS Certified Administrator.

Db2 pureScale with Pacemaker on Azure is an exciting new chapter for Db2 pureScale on Cloud platforms! The Microsoft Azure platform has both TCP/IP and RDMA private network capabilities, allowing more scale–out and scale–up opportunities for the most demanding customer workloads.
This session– walks through the deployment of a Db2 pureScale cluster on the Azure platform– examines the performance for scale up and scale out– compares the TCP/IP and RDMA platforms for cost and performance– discusses the current capabilities and some of the next areas under development
This work builds on the existing Db2 pureScale on AWS knowledge and the session will provide comparisons between the two Cloud offerings

This presentation will highlight the contents of the European Union DORA (Digital Operation Resilience Act) which came into force in Janary 2025 and the PCI DSS V4.0.1 which came into force in March 2025.
Both of these are wide reaching and truly global in range! They both contain lists of things that, especially for Financial technical service providers (FINTECH), must be done on a regular basis to show that you, as a firm, are doing "Due Diligence" in the fight against "The Black Hat Brigade" who are alwasy trying to Hack, Steal or Ransom your data!
Further, this presentation will show you how to build a basic system to protect your firm, and yourself, from any Audit requirements that are currently required by both laws and also the Centre for Internet Security (CIS) rules for Db2 13 for z/OS.

Want to allow real–time representations of your Db2 for z/OS, Db2 for LUW or even db2 Warehouse on Cloud data to be leveraged as Data Lake, Event Streaming, Cloud Database, and more destinations?  Want to be free to create tables, alter them, apply data and have these changes seamlessly represented in a multitude of data formats and destinations? 
The IBM Data Replication Cartridge is a brand–new cloud architected solution leveraging cloud native convenience while leveraging more than 20 years’ experience with the definitive data replication product, IBM’s IIDR CDC. 
Learn the convenience, robustness, simplicity, and performance that the new cloud native architecture provides.  
We’ll highlight:
1)        Sate of the art functionality:  Never before seen replication functionalities, such as seamless DDL replication and intuitive intention–based user semantics.
2)        The Key to Performance: Highlights of the product architecture that simultaneously parallelizes workload applies Kafka while adaptively applying OLTP changes to aggregate apply preferring WatsonX Data Lake destinations.
3)        Demonstration of data replication showing ease of use and robustness of a cloud based replication architecture.
4)        Customer use cases highlighting the best patterns for using replication to perform real–time event streaming and contrasting WatsonX Data Lake Analytics scenarios.

A look at the new SQL capabilites added to Db2 v12 as well as a look back at some of the lesser known additions in 11.1 and 11.5 mod packs.  A deep dive into new namespace isolation capabilities provided via the TENANT concept. A peek into the Vector store extensions coming to Db2 and a look at how Db2 can integrate into a lakehouse strategy.

Optimal access plans are critical for query performance, and it is the Db2 optimizer's job to choose the best one. The optimizer is very sophisticated and considers many factors while costing an access plan, but sometimes it makes mistakes, and you need to fix it quickly. This session will show you how to apply access plan tuning techniques based on queries from real Db2 customer systems. This 2025 edition of the session will cover brand new examples compared to the 2024 edition. A variety of query types will be covered, including OLTP and analytics, running on single or multiple data base partitions. You will also learn how to use the explain facility to understand how access plans work. Attend this session to learn some techniques to address a variety of access plan problems and to gain some insight into query optimization.

Learn how to use ansible playbooks to backup, restore Db2 databases locally or cross–node and automate all post–restore checks and validations.