IDUG NA 2025

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.

Db2 Family Tools Update
In this Db2 family topic we will delve into two key areas of tooling for Db2 LUW including the new and exciting Db2 AI Assistant, leveraging GenAI to bring value to DBAs – and – a common, simplified Db2 data movement tool called Db2 Bridge which will help manage all the different ways in which data can be moved around the Db2 ecosystem.

SQLDI and Db2zAI Update
In this topic two key AI capabilities of Db2 for z/OS will be provided in detail.