IDUG EMEA 2026

Organizations are increasingly adopting real-time processing, event-driven architectures, AI-powered decisioning, and agentic automation. At the same time, many of the world’s most critical business transactions continue to originate on IBM Z. A single business activity—such as a payment, insurance claim, customer interaction, or account update—can generate signals across applications, transactions, data stores, and operational systems. While these signals are valuable, they are often disconnected and difficult to interpret in isolation. The challenge is no longer moving information between systems. The challenge is understanding what is happening in the business, in real time, and acting on it quickly.

IBM Z Data and Application Integration technologies, together with Confluent, address this challenge. Confluent provides the enterprise event backbone. IBM Z integration capabilities provide connectivity to IBM Z applications, transactions, data, and operational systems, enrich and correlate enterprise signals with business context, and simplify adoption through AI-assisted experiences. Together they transform enterprise signals into actionable business events that drive decisions, automation, analytics, and AI.

zDBA, Z Database Administration for Db2 for z/OS, refers to the specialized practice, role, and tooling involved in managing and maintaining IBM Db2 for z/OS, a premier relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs on the high-performance IBM Z mainframe platform.

IBM Db2 Genius Hub is an AI-powered data management console designed to turn IBM Db2 LUW into an autonomous database platform. Released by IBM, it serves as the unified, intelligent operational layer that completely replaces the older Db2 Data Management Console and Db2 Intelligence Center.

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