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Session title: Db2 for z/OS and FlashCopy: Practical Use Cases and Customer Experience

Session abstract: With the explosion of data volumes today, businesses are looking for ways to copy huge volumes of data very quickly – from seconds to minutes – with minimal disruption to the running of applications. In this presentation, you will hear about practical use cases for IBM FlashCopy technology in a Db2 for z/OS environment including non-disruptive data integrity checks, FlashCopy image copies allowing for instant restore, SHRLEVEL(CHANGE) consistent image copy backups, system-level backup and recovery. We will provide many hints and tips on how to set up your environment, share lessons learned from customer experience and address common pitfalls.

Speaker biography: Florence Dubois is an IBM Executive IT Specialist and a member of the Db2 for z/OS Development SWAT team. In this role, she consults for worldwide customers on a variety of technical topics, including implementation and migration, design for high performance and availability, performance and tuning, system health checks, disaster recovery. Florence presents regularly at conferences and has co-authored several IBM Redbooks publications.

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Session title: Db2 for z/OS Gets Agile: Data-as-a-Service and Database-as-a-Service

Session abstract: This session will describe recent Db2 for z/OS enhancements that enable developers to respond to an organization’s application requirements with greater speed and agility. Continue reading “Db2 for z/OS Gets Agile: Data-as-a-Service and Database-as-a-Service”

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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, Continue reading “Let Me Make THIS Clear – More Oft-Misunderstood Db2 for z/OS Concepts and Facilities”

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Session title: Finding CPU & MSU Gold in Legacy COBOL Stored Procedure Code

Session abstract: With the introduction of DB2 native stored procedures one thing is consistent.  The percentage of zIIP elligible MIP’s has increased significantly over the past several years. Continue reading “Finding CPU & MSU Gold in Legacy COBOL Stored Procedure Code”

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Session title: Protecting Your Crown Jewels

Session abstract: This presentation will give an overall view of how to protect your most critical assets on z/OS. We will discuss overall strategy including DB2, RACF, Guardium, zSecure, encryption, database and file activity monitoring and how they feed your SIEM for actionable items in real-time. Continue reading “Protecting Your Crown Jewels”

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Session title: Enabling APIs in a Modern Hybrid Cloud Environment

Session abstract: One of the key underpinnings of the Hybrid Cloud transformation movement is APIs. Linking applications to services to Systems of Engagement, APIs provide developers the ability to tap into functionality that far extends what was previously available to them. Continue reading “Enabling APIs in a Modern Hybrid Cloud Environment”

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Session title: Log Enhanced Copies for 24×7 DB2 Refresh/Migration

Session abstract: File system level copies of DB2 tablespaces and indexes are a fast alternative to traditional methods of data movement, such as Unload/Load. Continue reading “Log Enhanced Copies for 24×7 DB2 Refresh/Migration”

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Session title: Modernizing the Architecture of Your DB2 for z/OS-Accessing Applications

Session abstract: DB2 for z/OS has been around for more than 30 years, and there are applications written for DB2 in the 1980s that are running just fine today. That said, recent years have seen major changes in the architecture of DB2-accessing applications. Continue reading “Modernizing the Architecture of Your DB2 for z/OS-Accessing Applications”

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Session title: Let Me Make This Clear (Things That Plenty of DB2 for z/OS People Get Wrong)

Session abstract: Some aspects of DB2 for z/OS technology are plain as day; others, less so. Questions I get from DB2 users worldwide have highlighted for me things that a lot of folks – even very experienced DB2 people – get wrong. Continue reading “Let Me Make This Clear (Things That Plenty of DB2 for z/OS People Get Wrong)”