IDUG NA 2025: Full Schedule

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9:00am EDT

C14 | Db2 SaaS Modernization on Azure and BYOC

Thursday June 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am EDT

If you are interested in Db2 Managed Services on the Cloud this is a great session to attend to get the very latest information. This session will review some of the recent updates to our Db2 managed services and in particular it will dive deeper into our upcoming managed Db2 cloud services on Azure. It will go over features, but also review the technical architecture behind a new SaaS deployment model which allows you to get the benefits of a managed service while hosting the infrastructure in your own cloud account.

Speakers

Andrew Hilden

Chief Architect Db2 SaaS, IBM

Andrew Hilden is the Chief Architect of Db2 SaaS. He is involved extensively in the development and architecture of several data-oriented cloud services in IBM. In the past 25 years he has worked in development, architectural and leadership roles in Db2 from SaaS to areas like appliances... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Spring

Technical Session, Operations & Automation

Audience All
Subject LUW

10:10am EDT

C15 | Strategies for Making Db2 Data Accessible with APIs

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

Spring

This session will explore multiple strategies for enabling API access to your Db2 data. We will examine both direct API connections to Db2 and alternative mechanisms for accessing Db2 data through z/OS–enabled APIs. Attendees will gain insights into optimizing data accessibility and enhancing integration capabilities, empowering their applications to interact seamlessly with Db2 resources. Join us to explore practical approaches and best practices for leveraging APIs effectively in your Db2 environment.

Speakers

Chris Crone

Distinguished Engineer - Database Technologies, Broadcom

Chris is a Distinguished Engineer for Database Technology and a lead architectfor the Data Management portfolio within the Mainframe Division of BroadcomSoftware Group. He oversees strategy and architecture decisions for theBroadcom database products IDMS and Datacom, as well as for... Read More →

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

Technical Session, Operations & Automation

Audience All
Subject z/OS

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