IDUG NA 2025: Full Schedule

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10:10am EDT

A15 | Unlocking Recovery – The Key to Solving Everyday Problems

Thursday June 12, 2025 10:10am - 11:10am EDT

Thinking about your availability and recovery strategy shouldn't give you sleepless nights. When issues do come up, you want to make sure you have the tools needed to solve problems and ensure you get the most out of your investment in Db2. This presentation will give you some context and insight into the top questions we see from our customers the most in the areas of backup, restore, crash recovery, locking, logging, transaction management and high availability and disaster recovery. The questions and answers discussed here could save you when an unexpected outage arises and/or better prepare you to avoid an outage in the future.

Speakers

Michael Roecken

Software Developer, IBM Canada

Michael Roecken is a senior software developer with Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows platforms at the IBM Toronto Lab. Michael has worked since 2000 designing, implementing and supporting various features and capabilities in the areas of: backup/restore, crash/rollforward recovery... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 10:10am - 11:10am EDT
Piedmont

Technical Session, Backup Recovery & Data Movement

Audience Beginner
Subject LUW

11:20am EDT

C16 | Deciding which Buffer Pools to Page Fix using Automation

Thursday June 12, 2025 11:20am - 12:20pm EDT

Spring

Automated process of page fix removes the manual efforts which are required for DBA's and System programmers to determine if page fixing buffer pools is a possibility in their environment and how to most effectively use the real storage resources on the LPAR to that end.In this beginner–level session, we will see how the best candidate for page fixing is determined. How the availability of real storage on LPAR is being determined.

Speakers

Donnell Roach

BMC

Thursday June 12, 2025 11:20am - 12:20pm EDT
Spring

Technical Session, Operations & Automation

Audience Beginner
Subject z/OS

1:00pm EDT

C203 | BYOD Hands–On–Lab: Performing AI Queries with Db2 13 for z/OS

Thursday June 12, 2025 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT

Spring

See how IBM SQL Data Insights combines unsupervised deep learning with traditional SQL queries to allow you to run similarity, dis–similarity, cluster, analogy, and commonality queries on your Db2 z/OS data. You can easily uncover the hidden relationships across tables and views in your Db2 data, quickly gain actionable insights for solving your business problems as they arise, and confidently arrive at better business decisions. We will explore tables containing mutual funds financial data, home insurance underwriting data, and food nutrition data. You will experience how AI SQL queries can be applied to industry specific domains to find similarities, segment customers, and find outliers among relational data.
Make sure to bring your own device, and pre–create an IBM ID!

Speakers

Artem Minin

Techincal Specialist, IBM

Artem is currently a Technical Specialist in IBM’s Washington Systems Center, a team of Subject Matter Experts that provide leading edge technical sales assistance for the design, implementation, and support of solutions that leverage IBM Z. Specifically, Artem is responsible for... Read More →

John Goodyear

z Systems Technical Support Specialist, IBM

John Goodyear is a z Systems Technical Support specialist at the Washington Systems Center. John has a broad background in application development, systems management, and benchmarking. For the past 6 years, John has been focusing on Open Data Analytics, WMLz for z/OS, Db2 AI for... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Spring

Hands–On Lab

Audience Beginner
Subject z/OS

1:00pm EDT

F203 | The Db2 First Responder Workshop

Thursday June 12, 2025 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT

University

The Db2 community constantly welcomes new database administrators or application developers that access Db2. One of the reasons – Db2 is known as a robust and reliable database management system and a perfect match for private and public cloud environments.
However, sometimes you might face database related issues. The session will cover the first steps in the process of problem determination and problem source identification (PD/PSI). The session gives hands–on examples and practical examples for the strategy and process to encircle and find the problem by asking the right questions and will share best practices for the first occurrence data capture (FODC) tools available for the DBA.

Speakers

Thomas Rech

Senior IT Architect - DB2 SAP Development, IBM

Thomas has been working in the Db2 area since 1996. Starting as a Db2 course instructor, he soon moved to the SAP on Db2 environment in 1997. He joined the SAP/IBM Db2 Development Team, followed by a role as technical sales consultant. He led several lighthouse projects like the first... Read More →

Zahidul Khan

Technical Support Professional, IBM Canada

Zahidul Khan has been working at IBM Toronto Software Lab as software developer since 2000. He started working as DB2 Support Analyst and assisting customers with problem analysis and troubleshooting in all areas of DB2 LUW. For the last 14 years he is working in SAP DB2 Integration... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 1:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
University

Workshop

Audience Beginner
Subject LUW