Session title: Let Me Make THIS Clear – More Oft-Misunderstood Db2 for z/OS Concepts and Facilities
Session abstract: At a Tridex meeting earlier this year, I talked about Db2 for z/OS concepts and facilities that many people know of but are not clear on. I’m back with more of the same, again based on questions I get from Db2 users around the world. From pooled and high-performance DBATs to large page frames, from data set open and close to prefetch reads and array data types, I’ll try to take folks from “Uh” to “Oh!”
Speaker biography: Robert Catterall is a DB2 for z/OS Specialist zChampion IBM. He started his IT career with IBM in 1982, and worked throughout the 1990s as a member of the Company’s DB2 for z/OS National Technical Support team. From 2000 to 2007, Robert worked as a database technology strategist for CheckFree (now part of Fiserv). After working for three years as an independent DB2 consultant, he rejoined IBM in 2010. Robert is a past President of IDUG, a member of IDUG’s Speakers Hall of Fame, and was one of IBM’s inaugural Information Champions. He presents frequently at conferences, is a longtime columnist for IBM Data Magazine, and blogs about DB2 for z/OS at http://robertsdb2blog.blogspot.com/