Whether you’re a seasoned Db2 professional or you’re just beginning, keeping up with Db2 metrics is no trivial task, and you will have to become familiar with lots of metrics, parameter names and meaningful numbers if you want to be successful and have a deep understanding of your environment,...
Dr. Michael Stonebraker's 10 fears about the future of the DBMS field Introduction The performance of Db2 depends on many things. It spreads from the application and the SQL, through the Db2 itself, down to the underlying system configuration. We can even expand it a bit more, I mean a...
Apache Spark has become a very hot topic in the world of Big Data Analytics. It is seen as an alternative to Map/Reduce with superior performance due to more in-memory processing, and as a means to perform analytics that combine a wide set of data sources. IDUG had a one-day track of Spark...
The Logical Data Warehouse and IBM Fluid Query Mike McCarthy, IBM There is much written about the concept of Data Lake these days, often comparing and contrasting it with the traditional concept of Data Warehouse. Viewing a data lake as a replacement for a data warehouse, or as an...
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