Introducing the IDUG Online Learning Center

IDUG is proud to announce the organization's Online Learning Center, a leading-edge resource to make technical education from IDUG events available anytime, anywhere through your Web browser. Experience the Learning Center with a free introductory sample of the Best User Presentation from IDUG 2007 - North America.

IDUG Learning Center offerings are download-on-demand streaming media files featuring original presenter audio synchronized with presentation slides, along with some audio only offerings. Using standard desktop controls within an Internet browser, users can pause, rewind, fast-forward, stop and resume sessions from the Learning Center at their convenience. Offerings from the IDUG Online Learning Center session can be viewed an unlimited number of times for three months from the date of purchase.

The IDUG Online Learning Center library features more than 220 in-depth sessions captured at IDUG 2007 - North America, which took place May 6-10 in San Jose, California, U.S.A. Among the titles now available in the Learning Center are the following:

Session F13/G10: Magic of V8 Rebind
Bonnie Baker, Bonnie Baker Corporation

Session F03: Hard Lesson Learned when OO Meets Relational
John Campbell, IBM DB2 for z/OS Development

Session F06: Put a Smile on Your DBA's Face - Performance for the Developer (and You Know It All DBA's)
Rob Crane II and Marc Costa, FedEx Freight System

Session C02: Application Performance Tuning in DB2 9 for z/OS
Gene Fuh, IBM Silicon Valley Lab

Session E10/E11: A Sneak Peak at the Next Release of DB2 Linux, Unix and Windows,
Matt Huras and Aamer Sachedina, IBM Toronto Lab

Session B08: Top 10 Ways to Waste CPU
Susan Lawson and Daniel Luksetich, YL&A

Session A03: The Effect of Distribution and Correlation Statistics on the DB2 Optimizer
Tom Moulder, TREX Associates, Inc.

Session G06: More Ways to Challenge the DB2 z/OS Optimizer
Terry Purcell, IBM Silicon Valley Lab
Voted Best Overall Presenter at IDUG 2007 - North America

Session B01: Availability Enhancements in DB2 for z/OS
Haakon Roberts, IBM DB2 for z/OS Development
Best attended session at IDUG 2007 - North America

Session J01: IBM DB2 Utilities: What's New in DB2 9 and Often Overlooked Features Before 9
Bryan Smith, IBM Silicon Valley Lab

Go to the IDUG Online Learning Center

Select offerings from the Online Learning Center are available at no cost. For others, is required to access. (Basic Membership in IDUG is free-of-charge, requiring only completion of our membership application.) The majority of Learning Center offerings are available at a cost of $5 per (USD) for Premier Members and $10 per for Basic Members. IDUG Premier Members also enjoy complimentary access to keynote presentations, spotlight sessions and panel discussions hosted in the Learning Center, while these sessions are available for a fee to Basic Members.

To commemorate the launch of this vital new resource and to encourage use of the Online Learning Center, IDUG is pleased to make the session voted Best User Presentation (as selected conference by attendees) available free-of-charge for a limited time. To access the file, simply click on the session title below:

DB2 9 for z/OS: John Deere's Early Ship Pilot (ESP) Experience
Presenter: Bryan Paulsen, John Deere

IDUG invites you to benefit from this new, exciting program as we extend the organization's boundaries as the worldwide DB2 user community. Enjoy!