While Locking and other means of concurrency control are essential to any database management system, they are often the cause of problems in today's production systems. Applications are not always designed with concurrency in mind, so it is not uncommon that with increased transactions volumes...
EU13A13.pdf
Nearly all DB2 DBAs are familiar with the big, heavy DB2 client - especially if you’ve had the misfortune of having to download the 400+ MB behemoth over a slow Internet connection. Some of us have started using the Runtime Client in the quest for a smaller client footprint; this provides...
We live in a heterogeneous data world. Sooner or later, we are going to have to integrate the data we have stored in DB2 with data stored in other database management systems. DB2’s federated support allows data from many different databases to be accessed as if it were local tables within a...
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DATE: 2011-5-6 (10:30 AM - 11:30 AM) SPEAKERS: John Mallonee (Highmark Inc. ) We were faced with the daunting task of modernizing an aging COBOL/mainframe system. This session will describe how we used a simplified, generic DB2 structure to replace the old IMS database. Additionally, you'll see...
NA11E15.pdf
DATE: 2011-5-6 (09:15 AM - 10:15 AM) SPEAKERS: Mary Beth Jeffords (South Carolina Budget & Control Board, DSIT) Cost has increasingly become an issue for applications on any platform, especially the zSeries. This presentation will cover ways to control the costs of both distributed and...
NA11A14.pdf
DATE: 2011-5-6 (08:00 AM - 09:00 AM) SPEAKERS: Vladimir Bacvanski (InferData ), Dan Galvin (Galvin Consulting, Inc) The terms Java developers use when they talk about database access often sound unfamiliar to database professionals. In this talk you will learn what are the key modern Java data...
NA11E13.pdf
DATE: 2011-5-5 (02:45 PM - 03:45 PM) SPEAKERS: Ulf Heinrich (SEGUS / SOFTWARE ENGINEERING) There are many reasons to clone DB2 environments, like for development, DR testing, QA, audit or just to set up a new SAP environment. Cloning procedures aren't rocket science, but using the right tools...
NA11A12.pdf
DATE: 2011-5-4 (09:45 AM - 10:46 AM) SPEAKERS: John Mallonee (Highmark Inc. ) Representational State Transfer (REST) is a protocol that supports simplified web services over the HTTP protocol (you know that thing that supports basic transfers of information over the internet). Come learn about...
NA11F06.pdf
DATE: 2011-5-4 (09:45 AM - 10:45 AM) SPEAKERS: Robert Andresen (CA ) In my years of visiting my DB2 clients I am astonished by how many build their test databases by merely copying production data over to the test system. While this will guarantee extremely good test data, it's a horrible...
NA11G06.pdf
DATE: 2011-5-4 (08:30 AM - 09:30 AM) SPEAKERS: Leon Katsnelson (IBM ) iPhone, Android, Facebook, Twitter, Google ... they are changing the way we use technology as consumers. But this change is quickly permeating through the enterprise. This trend is called "consumerization of IT" and it is one...
NA11E05.pdf