Managing, Monitoring, Tuning and Architecting a Db2 for z/OS DDF Workload

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Session title: Managing, Monitoring, Tuning and Architecting a Db2 for z/OS DDF Workload

Session abstract: At a great many Db2 for z/OS sites, applications that utilize the distributed data facility (DDF) comprise the fastest-growing segment of the overall Db2 workload, and such applications are increasingly found to be the very largest workload component – bigger than CICS-Db2, bigger than IMS-Db2, bigger than batch-Db2. Continue reading “Managing, Monitoring, Tuning and Architecting a Db2 for z/OS DDF Workload”

Data-as-a-Service: the REST Interface to Db2 for z/OS

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Session title: Data-as-a-Service: the REST Interface to Db2 for z/OS

Session abstract: Non-DBMS-specific SQL interfaces such as JDBC and ODBC have been helpful for developers, enabling them to write code that accesses relational database management systems without having to customize that code for a specific relational DBMS; nowadays, however, a growing number of developers want a data-access interface that provides a still-higher level of abstraction with regard to the particulars of a specific data-serving platform. Continue reading “Data-as-a-Service: the REST Interface to Db2 for z/OS”

Db2 – The AI Ready Database – Hybrid Data Management Strategy

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Session title: Db2 – The AI Ready Database – Hybrid Data Management Strategy

Session abstract: Companies are trying to leverage data to transition into data driven businesses. In this session we will go through IBM’s Hybrid Data Management strategy and, in particular, how IBM’s data platform can ensure you are ready for AI. Continue reading “Db2 – The AI Ready Database – Hybrid Data Management Strategy”

Data & Artificial Intelligence : What’s Happening

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Session title: Data & Artificial Intelligence : What’s Happening

Session abstract: This session will provide a brief overview of what’s happening with AI with a particular emphasis on data and then provide a summary of the IBM offerings and products that support AI and Data Science.

Speaker biography: Susan also leads a tech community of a few hundred volunteers in the New York area & she loves hackathons. For more information about Susan please see: https://developer.ibm.com/opentech/category/susan-malaika/

Lets go with the IBM’s Always-on Architecture -keeping your service up for DECADES!

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Session title: Lets go with the IBM’s Always-on Architecture -keeping your service up for DECADES!

Session abstract: In this presentation we will discuss how IBM has implemented its “Always-on” architecture, providing the ability to keep services up without any outages.  This architecture was originally designed for sports venues, e.g. Olympics, Wimbleton, Masters, … but now has been adopted by several private companies who are unable to take any service outages.

Speaker biography: Dale has a B.Sc.(CS) from the University of New Brunswick and a Masters of Engineering(M.Eng) from the University of Toronto. Dale joined IBM in 1988, and worked in the DB2 development team from 1992 -2014. Dale’s area of expertise includes DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Kernel development, where he led teams that designed the current backup and recovery architecture and other key high availability and disaster recovery technologies. He has obtained eleven (11) patents in the area of database resiliency. Dale is a popular speaker at the International DB2 Users Groups (IDUG) conferences worldwide, as well as DB2 Regional users groups and IBM’s Information On Demand (IOD) conference. His expertise in the area DB2 availability area is well known in the information technology industry. Dale spent 10 months as the IBM Cloud Data Services Chief Availability Architect, and now Dale is now on the North American Hybrid Data Management Technical Sales team.