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4:30pm BST

B5 Beyond the Basics: Backup and Recovery for Resilient Db2 Environments

Monday September 28, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm BST

This session explores backup and recovery strategies for Db2 for z/OS, emphasizing the critical importance of compliance and recoverability in today’s data-driven world. Attendees will learn about various backup types, tools, and recovery processes, with a focus on creating resilient systems that align with modern compliance requirements. Through use cases, the session will demonstrate how to ensure recoverability, data integrity, minimize downtime, and maintain availability.

Speakers

Rahul Bajaj

Software Engineer, Broadcom

Rahul is a Db2 for z/OS professional at Broadcom Inc., working as part of the Db2 tools development team. His work focuses on supporting and evolving database management solutions that power critical enterprise systems.

Aysen Svoboda

Product Owner, Broadcom

A former System Programmer and DBA with 17 years in the mainframe space. Currently a Product Owner, dedicated to bridging the gap between software development and the real-world needs of the Db2 z/OS community.

Monday September 28, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm BST
Arrabida

Track B, Technical Session

Topic Best Practices, Database Resiliency
Audience Intermediate
Platform z/OS

4:30pm BST

C5 400 TB of LOBs witin a single Table - Challenges during growth over 25 Years

Monday September 28, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm BST

Porto

This presentation will show how Volkswagen handles a Db2 database with one very large 2 column table (timestamp &BLOB) , which was growing from some GB to 400TB. It will explain what challenges we had with hardware changes, software limits and working errors and how we solved them. Also making backups is not so easy for such a large system. This system is managed with a minimum amount of hardware resources inside a single Db2 LUW instance.

Speakers

Norbert Menzel

Db2 for zos DBA expert, Volkswagen AG

Norbert Menzel works with Db2 on different platforms (z/OS, OS/2, AIX) for about 40 years. Since 2005 he works for Volkswagen and manages Db2 LUW on AIX.

Monday September 28, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm BST
Porto

Track C, Technical Session

Topic Best Practices, Database Resiliency, User Stories
Audience All
Platform LUW

IDUG EMEA 2026

4:30pm BST

Rahul Bajaj

Aysen Svoboda

4:30pm BST

Norbert Menzel

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