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CENTRAL CANADA DB2

USERS GROUP

&

TORONTO IMS REGIONAL

USERS GROUP

2014

Technical Conference The BMO Institute of Learning

Toronto, Ontario

June 02nd - June 03rd

Central Canada DB2 Users Group 25 Hatherton Crescent, Don Mills, Ontario, M3A 1P6 - Email: [email protected]

See Our Web Site at: http://www.ccdb2.ca



Monday June 02nd

– Tuesday June 03rd

, 2014 The Bank of Montreal Institute for Learning

3550 Pharmacy Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M1W 3Z3

The Toronto IMS Regional Users Group will be co-hosting their quarterly meeting

with the Central Canada DB2 Users Group for 1 day on Monday June 02nd

.

The Central Canada DB2 User Group presents two EXCITING days of IMS for zOS, DB2 for

LUW and DB2 for z/OS education! Hear about the future from Dan Wardman (Director of the

Silicon Valley Lab). Come see and listen to renowned speakers such as Sheryl Larsen (World-

wide DB/2 for z/OS Evangelist.), Matt Huras (IBM – Distinguished Engineer for DB2 LUW),

Bettie Patterson (IBM – Chief IMS Architect), Deepak Kohli (IBM – IMS), and many IDUG Hall

of Fame speakers present on many diverse areas of DB2 and IMS.

Once again we will be offering the opportunity to take IBM DB2 Certification exams. The first

two (2) exams will be offered free, courtesy of IBM Canada!

This is the “must attend” seminar of the year and is only $300 for 2 days of DB2 and IMS

Education, or $175 for 1 day of IMS (Monday only)!!

PLEASE NOTE: Registration cut-off date: May 26th

, 2014 [sorry - no walk-ins]

Registration Includes – Presentation materials, continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and lunch.

Vendor reception on Monday is open to all.

We look forward to seeing you on Monday June 02nd

– Tuesday June 03rd

, 2014.

Regards,

Tim Johnson, President

Central Canada DB2 Users Group

Web: http://www.ccdb2.ca <=== NEW !!

Email: [email protected] <=== NEW !!

Voicemail: 416-345-3347

http://www.ccdb2.ca/

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PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS

These may be subject to change so please excuse the proverbial “last minute changes”.

KEYNOTE

“Turning Data and Analytics into Competitive Advantage”

What is the world’s newest natural resource? Data! And how you use it can be a game changer. Organizations that can quickly derive insights from all data and infuse analytics into everything they do can gain a competitive advantage. Dan Wardman, Vice President of IBM Information Management Mainframe Software and Silicon Valley Lab Director, will guide you through how Data and Analytics have become a key strategic initiative for companies worldwide. Dan's leadership roles at IBM include stints as Director for DB2 on z/OS, IMS, and the IBM Tools organization. His rich depth of knowledge and current role as Vice President ensure that his keynote succinctly addresses how IBM Information Management software, including DB2 and IMS, can help your business make the most of its natural resources. Dan Wardman is vice president of IBM Information Management Mainframe Software and site executive for IBM's Silicon Valley Laboratory. As VP of Mainframe Software, Dan is responsible for the development, support, marketing and service of DB2 for z/OS, IMS, and tools for DB2 and IMS. As site exec, he manages the Silicon Valley Laboratory site, located in San Jose, California - a two-thousand employee software development center responsible for some of IBM's largest software products in database and application development. Prior to his current position, Dan was the VP of IM Tools. Previously, he was the Director of Development for DB2 for OS/390, IMS product manager and the IBM Software Solutions division database strategy manager.



DB2 FOR z/OS

“Using Native SQL Procedures to Create DBA Building Blocks” Damon Anderson

Anixter Inc. DBA processes are often complex and trouble will ensue if the steps are not followed properly. By using Native SQL Procedures for DBA processes, we have improved our efficiency and productivity. We have been able to put the logic of many DBA processes into SQL Procedures. This has allowed all of our DBAs to perform processes that they may only be somewhat familiar with. The goal of this presentation is not to have you use our processes, but to provide enough information to inspire you to automate some of your processes.

“DB2 11 Expanded RBA/LRSN – Does This Bit Make My Tail Look Big?” Jim Dee

BMC Software DB2 has had a 6 byte RBA since the beginning and a 6 byte LRSN since DB2 Version 4. IBM is introducing the ability to optionally expand the RBA and LRSN to 10 bytes in DB2 11. This change will have fairly far reaching implications on many DB2 structures that have carried a 6 byte RBA since the beginning over 30 years ago. This presentation will raise some of those implications by discussing where RBA values currently reside in the DB2 universe. Details of old versus new formats will be provided. The source of the presentation title? Every page on a DB2 object, both table and index spaces, ends in a structure called PGTAIL. In the expanded world, this becomes PGBIGTAIL.

“A DB2 Workload Tuning Methodology” Jim Dee

BMC Software Instead of tuning your SQL one statement at a time, why not look to the advantages of tuning an entire workload of SQL instead? Workload SQL tuning can not only provide faster returns on the investment in tuning time and effort but will usually provide bigger savings of cpu and other resources. Workload tuning can also avoid the unfortunate “Silly Putty” situation where improving the performance of one SQL statement can have



unexpected detrimental effects elsewhere! Apart from tactical emergency corrections to individual SQL statements, workload SQL tuning should be the preferred mechanism to ensure that application SQL and the underlying database design work together in the most efficient way possible This presentation walks through a typical workload tuning methodology

“DB2 z/OS Cloning – What’s new and faster?” Ulf Heinrich

Director of Solutions Delivery, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING GmbH 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 procedure can make it a one knob process that even handles terabytes of data in a fraction of time. This presentation focuses on creating an exact copy of a full subsystem/data sharing group or a subset of objects and shows how to consistently duplicate objects/ without compromising availability. Implementing fast dataset rename steps and your own high speed DSNTIAD can make even a fresh copy of large ERP/CRM systems like SAP available in minutes. Working on the object level should consider any kind of naming conversion for DB2 objects, working on the subsystem/data sharing group level usually requires to clone into another subsystem or group ID. Non data sharing to data sharing and vice versa can be covered with some extra steps as well as cross DB2 version cloning. The goal is fully automating cloning scenarios including individual steps. See how easy and flexible cloning can be when exploiting the strengths of XML even for complex scenarios and get introduced to the powerful features your storage technology offers to make it highly efficient and incredibly fast! Ulf Heinrich is the Director of Solutions Delivery at SOFTWARE ENGINEERING GmbH. Ulf's specialties are DB2 availability and performance, focusing on the growing requirement for 24x7 operations and cost reduction. As a consultant at large customer sites, he has implemented database maintenance procedures and recovery strategies, and also experienced the pitfalls of recovery scenarios under real world recovery pressure. Ulf's activities cover EMEA, as well as North America through SE’s U.S. subsidiary, SEGUS Inc.



“DB2 10 and 11 for z/OS - Implementing and Using Autonomic Statistics” John Iczkovits

IBM USA Abstract: DB2 10 and 11 have a neat feature, automatically executing RUNSTATS on required objects. By the way, you get to choose when and how to execute RUNSTATS. The actual implementation however is not straight forward. Come to this presentation and learn how to successfully implement and review the output for this new feature.

“DB2 11 *NEW* Availability Functions and Features” John Iczkovits

IBM USA Abstract: DB2 11 has new exciting features, especially when dealing with availability. In this session you will learn about new recovery features, new online alters, workfile enhancements, and how to work with the new automated pseudo delete function. Come and get an in-depth view of these new exciting features. John Iczkovits is a Consulting IT Specialist with IBM Advanced Technical Skills. He provides DB2 for z/OS technical support and consulting services. His areas of expertise include DB2 data sharing, performance, and availability. His work in IBM includes experience supporting DB2 as a Systems Engineer, Database Administrator, IT Specialist, Consultant, and project lead. He has 31 years of IT experience, ranging from database products such as DB2 and IMS to MVS systems support, including storage management. He has also co-authored IBM Redbooks, Red papers, White papers, trade magazine articles, and presented at SHARE, the DB2 Tech Conference, the Information On Demand Conference, zEXPO Conference, IBM System z Technical Symposium, CMG, IDUG, and at local DB2 users groups.

“DB2 11 for z/OS is Great! But Why Should I Care?” Sheryl M. Larsen

World Wide DB2 for z/OS Evangelist IBM Information Management

President, Midwest DB2 Users Group Sheryl Larsen, the DB2 for z/OS world-wide evangelist shares many of the insights she has gained in writing efficient and well performing SQL. She explains the stages of SQL



processing and filtering and gives practical tips on which predicates might obtain faster results. The steps to review your SQL are outlined. Sheryl also reviews some of the analytic capabilities of SQL statements such as GROUP BY GROUPING SETS, GROUP BY ROLLUP, and GROUP BY CUBE.

“Applying DB2 Performance Structures Optimally” Sheryl M. Larsen

World Wide DB2 for z/OS Evangelist IBM Information Management

President, Midwest DB2 Users Group Sheryl Larsen, the DB2 for z/OS world-wide evangelist discusses structures and appliances that can be used in conjunction with DB2 to improve performance. She presents information on base table indexes, index on expression, Materialized Query Tables (MQTs), zIIPs, and Accelerated Query Tables (AQTs). Decisions and cases regarding when to use these structures are presented. Sheryl M. Larsen is an internationally recognized researcher, consultant, lecturer, specializing in DB2, and now works for IBM as the World Wide DB2 for z/OS Technical Evangelist. She is known for her extensive expertise in SQL and has performed detailed DB2 Performance Health Checks for many fortune 500 clients. Sheryl has over 25 years’ experience in DB2, has published many articles, white papers and co-authored a book, DB2 Answers, Osborne-McGraw-Hill, 1999. Currently she is the President of the Midwest DB2 User Group - www.mwdug.org, and a member of the Northern Illinois University Computer Science Alumni Council.

“Performance and Availability in DB2 11” Susan Lawson

Yevich, Lawson & Associates With every new release of DB2 we look to see what features will allow us to improve the performance of our existing applications and the availability of our data. We also begin to plan to utilize new feature in our development efforts. This presentation takes a look at the features in DB2 11 that will both improve our performance and provide us with maximum data availability.

Discuss overall improvements and migration goals in DB2 11



Discuss features for improved application and database performance

Discuss features for improved data availability

Discuss implementation and expectations of these new features Susan Lawson is an internationally recognized consultant and lecturer with a background in system and database administration. She currently works with several large clients to help develop, implement and tune some of the worlds’ largest and most complex DB2 databases and applications. She also performs Performance and Availability Audits for many clients to help reduce costs through proper performance tuning and to help ensure availability. Her other activities include authoring articles and white papers, presenting at user group meetings, and teaching a variety of DB2 courses. She is an IBM GOLD Consultant for DB2 and z/Series, and an IBM Information Champion and has authored the IBM ‘DB2 for z/OS V8 DBA Certification Guide’ and the IBM ‘DB2 for z/OS V7 Application Programming Certification Guide’. She is also the co-author of several DB2 books including the IBM ‘DB2 10 for z/OS DBA Certification Guide’, IBM ‘DB2 9 for z/OS DBA Certification Guide’, ‘DB2 High Performance Design and Tuning’ and ‘DB2 Answers’. She is also a SME (Subject Matter Expert) for the IBM Certification exams for DB2 z/OS Database and System Administration assisting with writing and verifying questions for the exams.

“Where is the Problem in My z/OS Transaction? James Martin

FUNDI Software Is it a DB2 problem? DBAs always hear this question. In fact, today’s complex z/OS environments involve many subsystems such as CICS, DB2, IMS, and WebSphere MQ. Some problems do not clearly indicate their origin. For example, IMS or CICS users might report slow response time, but to solve the problem, you may need to correlate DB2 with other measurement data across subsystems to discover the root cause. This presentation looks at the available sources of performance and log data both inside and outside of DB2, and describes the value of this data for forensic transaction analysis, problem determination and tuning. James has been working for FUNDI Software, an IBM Preferred Development Business Partner, for 8 years. James is an ASTQB Certified Tester, and has held various testing roles for FUNDI including a 2 year stint as the Test Lead for IMS Problem Investigator product. In his current role as a United States Representative, James travels to various



conferences and customers in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia for speaking engagements and Product Technical Support. James is also one of the IMS Project Managers for the SHARE Technology Conference.

"Converting IMS to DB2 at Anixter." Bernie O'Conner

Anixter Inc. Converting IMS to DB2 was a goal at Anixter before I was hired twenty years ago. We tried dual programming techniques, replication and, finally, DL/2: a solution that required minimal application code changes. Application programs think they are talking to IMS, but they are actually talking to DB2 through the DL/2 APIs. Future programs will use DB2 directly, while the older ones will continue to run with the vanilla IMS code using the DL/2 APIs. As for porting the IMS segments, some are being moved over "as is" while others are being converted from character into data types such as Date and Integer. We used UDFs for specialized conversions, including windowing techniques. We are into our Quality Environment, with a Production Date no later than September 30. This presentation includes Design decisions, Migration decisions, Application rules, JCL changes, Sparsing routines, GSAM files, and other milestones on the way to accomplishing our goals. Bernie O'Connor is Director of Information Technology at Anixter Inc., a leading global distributor with three major lines of business: Enterprise Cabling and Security, Fasteners, Electrical and Electronic Wire & Cable. Bernie has responsibility for Data Analysts, Data Services, Data Warehousing, Technical Architecture, and Web Services: Web Servers, App Servers, Messaging Servers. Bernie is an IBM Champion, IDUG Volunteer, a former North American Conference Chair, former President of IDUG, and an IDUG Hall of Fame Speaker.

“The DB2 11 Catalogue – something new, something old, something changed” Steen Rasmussen,

CA Inc. Every new release of DB2 introduces changes to the DB2 repository – AKA The catalog or DSNDB06. Digesting the catalog changes can be the quickest method to adopt what the new release is about, schema changes, new object types and attributes, new Bind parameters and deprecated components. This session will provide a detailed overview



of the catalog changes between DB2 10 and DB2 11 and the associated schema changes. Steen Rasmussen is a Sr. Engineering Services Architect currently instrumental in the ongoing development and support of the CA DB2 tools. In 1985 Steen started as an IMS/DB2 DBA at a major insurance company in Denmark working with all aspects of DB2 - like tuning, application design and implementation, education of developers, backup and recovery planning and automation of housekeeping processes. During this job, Steen also served as a member of the planning committee for DB2 GUIDE SHARE Nordic Region. In 1995 Steen became a technical manager at PLATINUM Technology managing technical support and presales for the DB2 products. Steen has been working with DB2 for more than 23 years starting with DB2 Release 1.0 and is always looking for new opportunities in the CA DB2 solutions which can help customers manage DB2 more efficiently. Besides from providing support for the teams in the field as well as internal groups working with DB2, Steen also is a frequent speaker at IDUG in North America and EMEA as well as local DB2 User Groups around the world.



DB2 FOR LINUX, UNIX and WINDOWS

“BLU Acceleration Customer Case Studies” Chris Eaton IBM Toronto

DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration is an exciting new in memory analytics capability from IBM. In this session Chris will walk through 5 different case studies of clients that have already been using BLU Acceleration. We will cover the various workloads these clients are deploying with BLU Acceleration, the methods these clients are using to both ingest and query these new tables as well as the sizes and types of systems these clients are leveraging. Chris will also show the performance these clients are now seeing with DB2 10.5 along with the compression these clients have achieved.

“DB2 10.5 for LUW vs. Oracle 12c – Just the Facts!” Chris Eaton IBM Toronto

In this technical session, Chris will compare and contrast the capabilities of DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, Windows vs. the latest available RDBMS from Oracle (12c). This session will focus on quantifiable technical differences in the two products and discuss the competitive advantages DB2 maintains over the Oracle database. Included in this session will be features for storage savings, high availability, administration, performance and scalability as well as an in-depth look at specific features like BLU Acceleration, pureScale and more. Come and see the real facts on product capabilities. Chris Eaton is a Worldwide Technical Specialist for IBM’s Information Management products focused on Database Technology and Workload Optimized Systems. Chris has been working with DB2 on the Linux, UNIX, and Windows platform for over 20 years. He is the author of several books in the data management space and is an international award winning speaker. Chris also has one of the most popular blogs about DB2 on IT Toolbox at http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/db2luw.

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/db2luw



“DB2 10.5 New Features - A Query Optimizer Perspective” John Hornibrook

STSM, Manager, Query Optimization Development DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows, IBM Canada Lab

DB2 10.5 provides a number of new features to extend DB2 capability and provide improved performance. Leading the list is BLU Acceleration, which provides compressed column-organized tables for DB2 databases, and includes broad support for data mart (analytic) workloads having complex queries that are commonly characterized by multi-table joins, grouping and aggregation, and table scans over a star schema. DB2 10.5 also provides expression-based indexes, the ability to exclude NULL keys from indexes, support for tables with large rows and randomized key indexes. This presentation will discuss how the optimizer has been updated to support these new features and how you can recognize their effect on the query access plan by using the explain facility. John Hornibrook is a Senior Technical Staff Member and development manager for DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows query optimization, which includes statistics collection, the explain facility, and the design advisor. He has been a DB2 developer for 24 years, focusing on the SQL compiler and relational data services components.

“DB2 for LUW Memory Management” Martin Hubel

MHC Inc. As applications grow, memory and buffer pools play an increasingly important part in reducing physical I/O, elapsed time and CPU time. Many organizations have not spent enough time to optimize this valuable resource. The presenter will talk of his experiences in tuning memory areas and buffer pools for large applications including production applications and data warehouses at client sites. Many experiences are shown. Martin Hubel is an independent consultant and has worked extensively with DB2 since 1985. Martin develops and teaches DB2 advanced courses and is recognized as a leading authority in the field. He has been using DB2 Universal Database on Linux, Unix, and Windows since 1993 and has participated in several beta test programs for these platforms. He is an IBM Information Champion, and a member of the IDUG



Volunteer Hall of Fame. He is a member of the DB2 LUW SAP Technical Leadership Exchange.

“DB2 Internals for Administrators: Updated for Latest Release - Part 1 & Part 2” Matt Huras

IBM Canada This presentation is an in-depth explanation of the internals of DB2 on the Unix, Windows and Linux platforms. It will delve into storage management, table management, logging, locking, memory management and other areas in detail. The session will focus on those aspects of DB2's internal workings and the external knobs and switches available to control them, that are important for DBAs to appreciate in order to get the most out of their DB2 installations and keep their user communities happy. Attention will be given to the capabilities in the latest DB2 releases - 10.1 and 10.5 - including new Storage Groups, Workload Management, Adaptive Compression, pureScale and BLU Acceleration. Matt Huras is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and chief architect for DB2 on the LUW platforms. Matt's areas of expertise include data management, index management, locking, concurrency and other protocols. Matt has been with IBM for 28 years, and has a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo, and a Master of Engineering from the University of Toronto. Matt's most recent project was DB2 pureScale - a new feature focusing on delivering new levels of scalability and availability.

“Optimizing your Database for Analytic Workloads using BLU Acceleration in

DB2 10.5” David Kalmuk

Technical Lead & Architect - Process Model, WLM, Monitoring DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows, IBM Canada Lab

The ability to define columnar tables in DB2 10.5 has significant implications for analytic environments. Improved compression and orders of magnitude performance improvements are a few of the benefits you'll see with this exciting technology, but there are also some key considerations to be aware of when managing columnar workloads to ensure you achieve the optimal performance this technology offers. This session will



introduce you to the BLU Acceleration technology in DB2 10.5 and then jump right into what you need to know to really optimize your database for columnar workloads. Objectives:

Review the key value propositions of the new BLU Acceleration technology in DB2 10.5

Cover the memory and configuration requirements you need to be aware of in order to successfully deploy this technology in your environment

Discuss data loading and the impact of columnar table compression on your query performance

Learn about the default workload management in BLU environments and how it impacts your query parallelism and sort memory requirements

Learn what data elements to monitor in order to tune your BLU environment David Kalmuk is an architect for the DB2 for LUW product, specializing in the Workload Management, Monitoring, and Process Model areas. David has played a lead role in the design and architecture of numerous technologies in DB2 over the years including the WLM dispatcher technology in DB2 10, the performance monitoring infrastructure introduced in DB2 9.7, the threaded engine, DB2's multi-node communications architecture, and the connection concentrator. Most recently he has been leading development efforts related to the BLU Acceleration technology in DB2 10.5. David has been a member of the DB2 team since 2000.

“DB2 Business Continuity Features” Dale (D.M.) McInnis

IBM Senior Technical Staff Member DB2 LUW Availability Architect

“Practical options and trade-offs for database availability” Dale (D.M.) McInnis

IBM Senior Technical Staff Member DB2 LUW Availability Architect

Dale McInnis is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) at the IBM Toronto Canada lab. He has a B.Sc.(CS) from the University of New Brunswick and a Masters of Engineering from the University of Toronto. Dale joined IBM in 1988, and has been working on the DB2 development team since 1992. Dale's area of expertise includes



DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows Kernel development, where he led teams that designed the current backup and recovery architecture and other key high availability and disaster recovery technologies. Dale is a popular speaker at the International DB2 Users Groups (IDUG) conferences worldwide, as well as DB2 Regional users groups and IBM's Information On Demand (IOD) conference. His expertise in the area of DB2 availability area is well known in the information technology industry. Dale currently fills the role of DB2 Availability Architect at the IBM Toronto Canada Lab.

“DB2 LUW Performance FAQs, volume 4: Demystifying more Mysteries!” Steve Rees IBM Canada

In this installment of the 'performance FAQs' series, we shine a light on some new areas, like what you need to know about performance in the brand-new release of DB2 LUW. And what about pureScale - how is monitoring and tuning it different from single-partition DB2 ESE and multi-partition DPF? How can you make runstats run faster? Should you create indexes before loading a table, or vice versa? We also revisit and update a few favorites - like an update on monitoring (and what do all these terms really mean?), and what is the fastest way to get data into a DB2 database? Join us for an hour of useful and engaging tips & insider information about DB2 performance.



IMS

“IMS Introduces Its Most Innovative Release” Betty Patterson IBM USA, SVL

Welcome to IMS 13! Betty Patterson, Chief IMS Architect, will walk you through the spectrum of technical enhancements for IMS Database, Transaction Manager, System Services, and Connectivity delivered with IMS 13. Whether your business focus is reducing total cost of ownership (TCO), taking advantage of IMS open access capabilities to support growth, reducing outages, improving connectivity, all of which are made even simpler in this release, you are sure to find a ton of useful information to ignite the spark for your migration plans. Betty Patterson is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for Information Management System (IMS) product and is responsible for IMS architecture and design. Betty has a long history of leadership and innovation in driving the transformation of IMS's capabilities. She drove innovations in IMS in the areas of system management, automation, operations, parallel sysplex and shared message queues. She is currently focused on reducing the total cost of ownership for IMS, improving ease of use, and system availability. Betty is based at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory in San Jose, California and is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

“OTMA for 100K” Dave Cameron IBM USA, SVL

OTMA played a key role in the IMS 13 100,000 TPS benchmark. In this session, Dave Cameron from the IMS OTMA Development Team will share details about the unique role of OTMA in the 100K achievement and the efficiencies that were implemented to help IMS reach its new benchmark. He will also cover additional new OTMA functions for early termination notification, enhanced flood control, improved callable interface, callout, and MQ destination descriptors. Dave Cameron is a Senior Developer in IMS Development. Dave started on the client side of IMS, as a key IT expert for several Canadian banks. He brought his significant experience to IMS and has held different roles in the IMS Transaction Manager world. Currently he is part of the IMS OTMA team. His depth of knowledge is very well



respected by colleagues and clients alike. Dave is part of the IMS Team at IBM Silicon Valley Lab, but calls Ontario, Canada home.

“Modernizing IMS Applications the JDBC Way” Deepak Kohli

IBM USA, SVL The rate of change in the IT world means that businesses are in a near-constant cycle of adaptation and modernization; there's never a dull moment. If you thought otherwise, Deepak Kohli will help you to see things differently. Deepak brings his wit and wisdom to the topic of Application Modernization and IMS. Open Access technologies for IMS, supported in part by its JDBC capabilities, have helped businesses modernize their IMS applications for more than a decade now. Deepak will share how the IMS JDBC support circle continues to widen with each release. He will highlight specific client use cases and touch on IMS modernization strategies to come, including Mobile. Deepak Kohli is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM's Silicon Valley lab. Currently, he is part of the IMS Product management team helping customers modernize and SOA-enable their IMS systems. Deepak also provides IMS Level 2 technical support specializing in IMS On Demand and TM areas. He has a Masters in Computer Science from NYU. In the area of IMS, Deepak's experience ranges across applications, DBA, Systems, performance tuning and problem determination. He has taught various IMS and DB2 courses. His presentations have won him rave reviews at conferences worldwide.

“Are You Afraid of Your IMS System?” James Martin

FUNDI Software There are so many things that control your IMS systems that it can be a frightening experience to have to make changes to things such as parameter members and resource definitions. Many of these were setup years ago by someone that is no longer with your company. Come and hear how the IMS Configuration Manager can remove much of the risk associated with changing these parameters and resources. Using ICM you can accomplish the things you need to be able to manage your IMS systems across multiple IMSPLEX’s. If you need to add a new feature, change an existing one



or just understand what options are available to you for your current systems, ICM is the tool you need. Come see how the Auto Discovery feature and SYSPLEX wide compare capabilities allow you to make sure your changes have the highest potential for success. Quickly find out if there are any related parameter members and/or keywords related to the one you are considering change. Make your approach to managing IMS Resource definitions version agnostic and easily deploy the changes using either IMS Systems Generation or IMS Dynamic Resource Definition. And it’s not just for the IMS control region stuff. It covers IMS Connect and all the supporting IMS regions such as OM and RM as well. James has been working for FUNDI Software, an IBM Preferred Development Business Partner, for 8 years. James is an ASTQB Certified Tester, and has held various testing roles for FUNDI including a 2 year stint as the Test Lead for IMS Problem Investigator product. In his current role as a United States Representative, James travels to various conferences and customers in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia for speaking engagements and Product Technical Support. James is also one of the IMS Project Managers for the SHARE Technology Conference.



IBM Certification Exams

Tuesday June 03rd

IBM Canada Once again the Technical Conference will be offering the opportunity to take IBM Certification exams – courtesy of IBM Canada. The first two (2) exams are offered free. There are limited time slots. A signup sheet will be available at registration on Monday June 02

nd for attendees to schedule their exam(s).



8:15 - 8:50 badge pick-up

9:00 - 10:30

9:15 -10:30

DB2 for z/OS - Presentation Hall DB2 LUW Breakout IMS for z/OS

10:45 - 12:00

DB2 11 for z/OS is Great! But Why Should

I Care?

Sheryl Larsen - IBM

DB2 10.5 Internals Part 1

Matt Huras - IBMTBD

IMS Introduces Its Most Innovative

Release

Betty Patterson – IBM

01:15 - 02:15

Performance and Availability in DB2 11 -

Part 1

Susan Lawson - YL& A

DB2 10.5 Internals Part 2

Matt Huras - IBM

Converting IMS to DB2 at Anixter

Bernie O'Connor

Modernizing IMS Applications the

JDBC Way

Deepak Kohli – IBM

02:30 - 03:30

Performance and Availability in DB2 11 -

Part 2

Susan Lawson - YL& A

DB2 LUW Performance FAQs, volume 4:

Demystifying more Mysteries!

Steve Rees - IBM

DB2 11 *NEW* Availability Functions

and Features

John Iczkovits - IBM

Are you afraid of your IMS System?

James Martin - Fundi Software

03:45 - 04:45

Using Native SQL Procedures to Create

DBA Building Blocks

Damon Anderson - Anixter

DB2 10.5 New Features - A Query

Optimizer Perspective

John Hornibrook - IBM

TBDOTMA for 100K

Dave Cameron - IBM

04:45 - 6:30

coffee break

Vendor Expo / Reception

ALL ATTENDEES: meet in the main presentation hall for opening remarks and Dan Wardman's keynote presentation.

Dan Wardman,

IBM,IBM VP/CTO for IBM Data Management

KEYNOTE: "Turning Data and Analytics into Competitive Advantage" ... Q&A

M O N D A Y June 2

MOVEMENT/COFFEE BREAK

LUNCH

coffee break

attendees - please be seated in the large presentation hall [near the registration desk] by 9:00 AM



DB2 for z/OS - Presentation Hall DB2 LUW Breakout PC Lab

9:00 - 10:00

DB2 10 and 11 Implementing and

Using Autonomic Statistics

John Iczkovits - IBM

Practical Options and Trade-Offs for

Database Availability

Dale McInnis - IBM

Where is the problem in my z/OS

transaction?

James Martin - Fundi Software

10:15 - 11:15

Applying DB2 Performance Structures

Optimally

Sheryl Larsen - IBM

DB2 Business Continuity Features

Dale McInnis - IBM

A DB2 Workload Tuning Methodology

Jim Dee - BMC Software

11:30 - 12:30DB2 11 for z/OS Catalog Changes

Steen Rasmussen - CA

BLU Acceleration Customer Case

Studies

Chris Eaton -IBM

TBD

1:30 - 2:30

DB2 z/OS Cloning – What’s new and

faster?

Ulf Heinrich - SEGUS Inc

DB2 Performance

David Kalmuk - IBM

DB2 10.5 for LUW vs. Oracle 12c – Just

the Facts!

Chris Eaton - IBM

2:45 - 3:45

DB2 11 Expanded RBA/LRSN – Does

This Bit Make My Tail Look Big?

Jim Dee - BMC Software

DB2 for LUW Memory Management

Martin Hubel - MHC Inc.

coffee break

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T U E S D A Y June 3

coffee break

coffee break

LUNCH



Travelling To The Institute For Learning

3550 Pharmacy Avenue, Scarborough, Ontario, M1W 3Z3

From West:

Follow the 401 east bound to the Don Valley Parkway (DVP) exit. From this exit take the 404

north. Follow the 404 north to Steeles and Woodbine exit (Exit 22). Stay to the right of the exit,

as you will be turning right on to Steeles. Once on Steeles, go to the third set of lights, which is

Pharmacy Avenue, and turn right. Follow Pharmacy Avenue south to the first driveway and turn

right. Follow the driveway to the parking lot, which is located on the West side of the building.

From East:

Follow the 401 west bound to the Don Valley Parkway (DVP) exit. From this exit take the 404

north. Follow the 404 north to Steeles and Woodbine exit (Exit 22). Stay to the right of the exit,

as you will be turning right on to Steeles. Once on Steeles, go to the third set of lights, which is



From North:

Follow the 404 south to Steeles Avenue. Turn left on to Steeles and at the fourth set of lights,

which is Pharmacy Avenue, turn right. Follow Pharmacy Avenue south to the first driveway and

turn right. Follow the driveway to the parking lot, which is located on the West side of the

building.

From South:

Follow the Don Valley Parkway (DVP) north and once you cross over the 401, it becomes the

404. Follow the 404 north to Steeles and Woodbine exit (Exit 22). Stay to the right of the exit, as

you will be turning right on to Steeles. Once on Steeles, go to the third set of lights, which is





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Users Group Meeting Registration

We now accept payments by cheque, Pay-Pal, and credit cards.

Regardless of your payment option, please email the following form to [email protected],

and indicate which session you wish to attend, i.e. DB2 for z/OS, DB2 for LUW, or IMS

If you would like to pay on-line via Pay-Pal or credit card, please follow this link:

http://www.ccdb2.ca/paypal.htm

Otherwise, please print and complete this form, and mail with a cheque for the appropriate

amount to the address below.

Please make cheques payable to: "Central Canada DB2 Users Group".

Please Note:

- Registrations must be received by Monday May 26th

, 2014.

- Register before May 12th

, 2013 to be eligible for our Early Bird draw ($200 Gift

Certificate).

- Sorry - NO WALK-INS.

Email: [email protected]

Mail:

Central Canada DB2 Users Group

25 Hatherton Crescent

Don Mills, Ontario, M3A 1P6

Voicemail: 416 345-3347


http://www.ccdb2.ca/paypal.htm




Meeting Registration

June 2 – June 3, 2014 BMO’s Institute for Learning

Company: ______________________________________

Address: ______________________________________________________________

City: ______________________ Postal Code: _____________

Tel: ______________________ Email: _____________________________

2 Days DB2 for z/OS: _____ $300 per person (Includes HST)

2 Days DB2 for Linux,

UNIX, Windows: _____ $300 per person (Includes HST)

1 Day IMS : _____ $175 per person (Includes HST)

HST# R123621492

Total Enclosed: $__________

Please make cheque payable to: Central Canada DB2 Users Group

Please Note:

No-shows and cancellations on less than 72 hours’ notice will be invoiced for the full amount

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