IDUG EMEA 2026

AI is creating new possibilities across every industry, but the enterprises that turn AI into real business value will have one major advantage: trusted access to the data that runs their business. For many of the world’s largest organizations, that data already lives in Db2, powering their most critical transactions across IBM Z and distributed environments. The opportunity isn’t to build yet another copy of that data somewhere else. It’s to unlock the value of the data you already have by bringing AI and analytics closer to where the data lives, reducing cost and complexity while accelerating access to insight.

Join IBM General Manager Priya Srinivasan and Distinguished Engineer & CTO IBM zData and AI Haakon Roberts as they share IBM’s vision for the future of Db2 and Data Integration. They’ll explore how Db2 for z/OS, Db2 LUW, and IBM Data Integration are evolving to help enterprises put their most valuable data to work across AI and analytics, from AI-powered database capabilities to real-time integration, streaming, and accelerated analytics. Learn how these capabilities can help you move faster, simplify your data architecture, and turn the data that powers your business into a competitive advantage.

Are you running maintenance because it’s Sunday, or because the data actually needs it? With shrinking windows and massive data growth, "business as usual" is no longer an option. This session explores how Broadcom Db2 utilities provide the precision and confidence needed to manage modern environments. We will discuss establishing data-driven housekeeping practices, leveraging recovery toolkits to validate resilience without production impact, and optimizing high-speed data movement to support DevOps and rapid testing. Learn to transform your batch utilities from a routine expense into a high-performance engine.

As IBM continues to deliver new utility enhancements, it's important to take a step back and review what options really matter and how to get the best performance and availability from utility executions. This session will explain general recommendations for utility performance as well as look at specific utilities to see how they can be optimised to make a real difference to performance, application availability and usability.

Quickly and Easily solve your most demanding Db2 utility challenges using the latest capabilites available in the BMC AMI Db2 utilities. This presentation covers the latest enhnacements in the BMC utilities for Db2 zOS. Come learn how BMC customers solve their hardest operational problems every day using the Db2 utilities from BMC. Gain deep insights on the advanced performance, useability and automation features available today in the BMC Db2 Utilities that set us apart from the competion.

Db2 for z/OS remains the foundational repository for the world's most critical transactional and analytical enterprise data. However, organizations face an operational crossroads: the compounding complexity of modern enterprise workloads is colliding with a skills shortage as veteran Db2 systems professionals retire. To safeguard these critical data environments without escalating operational risk, Db2 management should go beyond legacy green-screen friction into an intelligent, web-native ecosystem. This session explores the integration of Generative AI (Gen AI) with Broadcom CenterStage^TM for Database Management, specifically optimized for Db2 on z/OS environments to aggressively bridge this widening skills gap.

Db2 utilities are fundamental to database availability, performance, and recoverability—yet many sites treat them as black boxes.
This session explores the internal behaviour of key Db2 z/OS utilities such as REORG, RUNSTATS, COPY, and LOAD. We examine how these utilities interact with data, logging, locking, and system resources, and how understanding their internals helps DBAs run them more efficiently and safely.

Description:
How Db2 utilities really run
How Db2 utilities use buffer pools, logging, IRLM, and the catalogWhy utilities should be treated like normal Db2 work, not background jobs
REORG utility explained
What happens during each REORG phase: unload, sort, reload, rebuild, and switchHow REORG affects locking and loggingWhen REORG improves performance and when it provides little or no benefit
RUNSTATS and the optimizer
Difference between table statistics and index statisticsHow histograms and sampling influence query plansWhy the timing of RUNSTATS matters for access pa