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IDUG 2008 – North America provided user-driven education and networking opportunities designed to fit your needs as a DB2 database administrator on a z/OS platform. This year’s conference in Dallas offered more than 60 hours of technical sessions for Database Administration for z/OS covering a variety of topics including:
- Designing and Building databases
- Performance Monitoring and Tuning of the databases
- Enforcing standards for database use and security
- Insuring database recoverability, integrity, security, availability, reliability, and performance
- New features, High Availability, Very Large Databases
Opportunities for Database Administration for z/OS Included:
View a full listing of all technical sessions offered to Database Administration for z/OS platform.
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.
DB2 9 for z/OS - In Depth
Phil Grainger, CA
Getting Started with XML and DB2
Rav Ahuja, Matthias Nicola, Gougen Zhang, IBM
DB2 for z/OS Advanced Programming: Stored Procures, UDFs, and Triggers
Daniel Luksetich, YL&A
DB2 9 for z/OS DBA Administration Certification Crammer Course
Susan Lawson, YL&A
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:
Future DB2 for z/OS Technology Directions from DB2 Development
Jeff Josten, IBM Silicon Valley Lab
This session discusses some of the key goals and features that are planned for the next major release of DB2 for z/OS.
Special Interest Groups
Attendees met 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 conference SIG offerings may have been of particular interest to you:
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DB2 for z/OS Performance
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Women in Technology (Cross Platform)
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DB2 for z/OS High Availability and recovery
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Data Privacy, Security, and Audit Compliance (Cross Platform)
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DB2 for z/OS Optimizer
User Feedback Opportunities
IDUG, in partnership with IBM, provided opportunities to give feedback on the usage and usability of DB2 \products and services at IDUG 2008 - North America. These User Feedback Opportunity (UFO) sessions, open to all registered attendees (users, vendors, and consultants), solicited opinions via product usability testing, demos, and Q&A formats. This year’s sessions included Migration and Stored Procedures, Query Optimization, and much more. View a full listing of these key product influence opportunities.
IDUG 2008 – North America is THE conference for
Database Administration for z/OS |