IDUG 2008 – North America provided user-driven education and networking opportunities designed to fit your needs as an application developer for Linux/UNIX/Windows and z/OS. At this year’s conference in Dallas, more than 40 hours of technical sessions were offered for Application Development for Linux/UNIX/Windows and z/OS covering a variety of topics.
Opportunities for Application Development for Linux/UNIX/Windows and z/OS Included:
View a full listing of all technical sessions specific to the needs of Application Developers for Linux/UNIX/Windows and z/OS.
Attendees jump started their IDUG educational experience and got acquainted with other attendees during the pre-conference educational seminar(s). This year's conference offered nine full-day seminars presented by many of the world's foremost DB2 and IMS professionals. The following sessions were of particular interest to your job function:
SOA in the Real DB2 World
Robert Catterall, Catterall Consulting
High Performing SQL Clauses
Sheryl Larsen, Sheryl M. Larsen, Inc.
Getting Started wtih XML and DB2
Rav Ahuja, Matthias Nicola, and Guogen Zhang, IBM
An ALL NEW "Things I Wish They'd Told Me..."
Bonnie Baker, Bonnie Baker Corporation
The following spotlights on future generations of DB2 for z/OS were featured:
IBM Data Studio - Improving Access to Databases
Curt Cotner, IBM Silicon Valley Lab
This session described the problems that IT organizations face when developing and supporting Java applications. We reviewed some of the key customer pain points that arise in these applications, and reviewed how IBM Data Studio addresses these issues. The presentation covered the pureQuery technology in IBM Data Studio that allows the DBA to track SQL applications from the database all the way back to the specific line of code in the Java application that invoked the SQL. The presentation included new IBM Data Studio features that ship in 2008 that provide similar capabilities for JDBC, .NET, and the popular open source Java frameworks (Spring, iBatis, and OpenJPA).
Ask an IBM Developer
IBM's leading engineers gathered to address challenges as data management professionals. The format of this meeting was very simple: Ask a question, receive an answer from some of IBM's top development minds and decision-makers.
DB2 for Linux, UNIX, Windows Panel
Moderator: Chris Eaton, IBM Toronto Lab
George Baklarz, IBM Worldwide DB2 Sales Support
John Hornibrook, IBM Toronto Lab
Matt Huras, IBM Toronto Lab
Leon Katsnelson, IBM Toronto Lab
Dale McInnis, IBM Toronto Lab
Tim Vincent, IBM Toronto Lab
DB2 for z/OS Panel
Moderator: Mike Swift, IBM Silicon Valley Lab
John Campbell, IBM Silicon Valley Lab
Curt Cotner, IBM Silicon Valley Lab
Jeff Josten, IBM Silicon Valley Lab
Roger Miller, IBM Silicon Valley Lab
Terry Purcell, IBM Silicon Valley Lab
Peggy Zagelow, IBM Silicon Valley Lab
Special Interest Groups
Attendes teamed up with peers, shared best practices, learned from subject-matter experts, and brainstormed solutions around a specialized area of interest through Special Interest Groups (SIGs). The following SIGs were offered at the conference:
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DB2 Application Development: Mainframe, SOA, COBOL
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DB2 Application Development: .Net, Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails
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DB2 Application Dvelopment: General (Trigger, SP, UDF, etc.)
IDUG 2008 – North America is THE conference for
users of DB2 Technology.
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