These sessions are applicable to application developers and include query language (i.e. SQL), report writing, creating and managing database files, DB2 Connect, performance etc. for DB2.
Conference sessions of particular relevance to DB2 Application Development include:
DB2 for z/OS - Track I
A01 DB2 9 for z/OS: A New Spin on a Classic Database
A03 IDUG 2008 - North America Best User Speaker: Recursive SQL - Unleash the Power!
A06 What's New in DB2 9 for z/OS?
A08 DB2 for z/OS Optimizer: What Have You Done for Me Lately?
A12 KRC UNICODE: Train Is on the Rails
A13 Stabilizing Access Paths Across Rebind
A15 DB2 for z/OS Selected Performance Topics
A16 IFI Data: IFI You Don't Know, ASK!
DB2 for z/OS - Track II
B02 DB2 and the Tower of Babel: Unicode to the Rescue
B03 DB2 Connect to DB2 for z/OS - Problem Determination and Perfmance Tips and Tricks
B05 DBA Meets 007 - Data Encryption in DB2 for z/OS
B07 Getting Started with DB2 for z/OS Performance
B08 Tips, Tricks, and Caveats for PARTITIONING
B09 Hunting and Eliminating Obsolete Indexes at UBS AG
B10 Should Your Next Warehouse Be on DB2 for z/OS?
B13 Future DB2 for z/OS Technology Directions
B14 The Diagnosis Manual - Secrets and Intrigue
DB2 for LUW - Track II
D01 Bottleneck Elimination in Real World DB2 Applications Resize
D06 Top Tips from the DB2 Experts Blog
D15 DB2 for LUW Performance - Just the FAQs
D16 All About Perfect Tuning of Java Applications for DB2
Application Design - Track I
E01 Building Flexible Database Systems: A Review
E02 MQT - A Material Girl
E03 Desperate Table Designs
E04 Table Controlled Partitioning, the Rules of the Game
E05 DB2 Design Patterns - Solutions to Common Design Errors
E06 Best Practices for Managing XML in DB2 9
E07 V9 SQL for the Application Developer and DBA - Richer and Faster!
E08 Quit Calling DB2 So Much!
E09 Data Breach Protection: From a DB2 Perspective
E10 Move Large Amounts of DAta Between Different Data Marts
E11 Getting to Grips with Complex SQL
E12 Fully-Loaded Database Driver with Hybrid Power
E13 Adventures Using Triggers, Stored Procedures, and User-Defined Functions
E14 Unleash SQL Power to Your XML Data
E15 Advanced EXPLAIN for Green Screens
E16 MDT, Measurement Driven Tuning
Application Design - Track II
F04 Developing High Performance SOA Java DB2 Applications
F06 Future Technology Directions in Java Access to DB2
F07 Goodbye Persistency Layer: Defining the Database Service Catalog
F08 Connectivity to z/OS Using DB2 Connect with Kerberos Authentication
F09 Successfully Deploy SQLJ in Your Business Critical Applications
F10 Lock Out Your Locking Problems (Part 1 of 2)
F11 Lock Out Your Locking Problems (Part 2 of 2)
F12 Ultra-Availability - How Far Can You Go?
F13 DB2 Requirements Session
F14 Introducing Your COBOL Programs to DB2 Version 8
F15 Parles-vous Klingon? Recursion SQL for Generating Test Data
F16 Afraid of DB2 Dynamics? Pushing It to the Limit
DB2 Tools and Utilities
G02 Tuning Your System with the Buffer Pool Tool and DIFF for DB2
G03 Workload-Centric Index Optimization with EZ-DB2
G09 WebSphere Replication Server - A Technical Overview
G10 IBM Data Studio: The Toolset of the Future...Here Today (Part 1 of 2)
G11 IBM Data Studio: The Toolset of the Future...Here Today (Part 2 of 2)
G13 Privatizing Test Data: Three Fortune 500 Case Studies and Lessons Learned
G15 Ins and Outs of DB2 Distributed Processing
G16 Who Stole My Favorite Scan and Access Path?
Special Interest Groups
S01 Special Interest Group - System Performance, Tuning, and Migration
S02 Special Interest Group - DB2 for z/OS High Availability, Backup, and Recovery
S03 Special Interest Group - SQL and New Development Technologies (Java, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Jazz, etc.)
S04 Special Interest Group - Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
S05 Special Interest Group - LUW