IDUG EMEA 2026: Full Schedule

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10:20am BST

A10 Linuxification of Db2 for z/OS - a journey from ISPF and JCL to Shell and Playbooks

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:20am - 11:20am BST

This session will be about bridging existing legacy programs with "modern"interfaces, such as the Unix shell and Ansible. Next-generation mainframers are typically well-versed in Unix shells and scripting, largely due to Linux's dominance in the server market. But how does this apply to traditional mainframe tools? That is what we want to show you.

Speakers

Emil Kotrc

Principal Software Architect, Broadcom

Emil is a software architect at Broadcom Mainframe Software, he holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Engineering, is a member of the IDUG Content Committee, and an IBM Champion since 2015.

Marketa Muzikova

Software Architect, Broadcom

Markéta is an experienced software engineer with expertise in mainframe automation, including Ansible and Zowe. Markéta is a recognised expert on Ansible and facilitates the Broadcom Ansible Collection.

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:20am - 11:20am BST
Infante

Track A, Technical Session

Topic Automation, Latest and Features z/OS, Modernization in Operations
Audience Beginner
Platform z/OS

10:20am BST

B10 Db2 13 latest real customer experiences - new functions, best practices and some more…

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:20am - 11:20am BST

Arrabida

This presentation will provide the ongoing success story Db2 z/OS Version 13 and covers the latest experiences with Db2 13 at Commerzbank AG. It will talk about some key important areas which are essential for the success and how to prevent some known avoidable pitfalls. We share the important latest experiences of the last 12 months, explains the upcoming and validated best practices in several key areas. This session will also dive into Function Level dependencies, maintenance aspects, some tooling dependencies, and some performance aspects as well as base utilities and system functionalities.

Speakers

Ute Kleyensteuber

Senior Technical Staff Member, Commerzbank AG

Ute Kleyensteuber is a Principal Product Owner, Senior Infrastructure Engineer and Director at Commerzbank AG in Germany, responsible for Db2 for z/OS since more than 35 years. Knowing and working with Db2 since Version 1.2 I've extensive experiences of Db2 in terms of system- and... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:20am - 11:20am BST
Arrabida

Track B, Technical Session

Topic Best Practices, Database Resiliency, Latest and Features z/OS, Security and Compliance, User Stories, Utilities
Audience All
Platform z/OS

10:20am BST

E10 “Stabilize your Dynamic SQL and don’t let it remain Unpredictable”

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:20am - 11:20am BST

Luis

In the world of Db2 for z/OS, SQL performance tuning is one of the most critical and often most complex of DBA tasks. While static SQL has long been the standing order for traditional mainframe applications, the growing use of dynamic SQL - driven by modern applications, APIs, and distributed workloads - has changed the tuning game.Dynamic SQL’s agility and flexibility introduces a new layer of complexity that can hinder performance if not well managed and cause inconsistent performance and even be unpredictable. Dynamic SQL is becoming more prevalent as agile development and hybrid workloads become the norm. But with the flexibility of dynamic SQL comes responsibility - DBAs must adapt and develop new ways of monitoring and tuning dynamic workloads in real-time and across the application lifecycle. Colin Oakhill will share a proven approach to bring order to chaos by giving DBAs the visibility, control, and insight they need to ensure that dynamic SQL performs efficiently and predic

Speakers

Colin Oakhill

Db2 LUW DBA, Insoft Infotel Software GmbH

Colin has been working with mainframes since 1974. Along his career he has worked as a systems programmer, DBA and developer. He started with CICS & IMS systems and with Db2 since 1988. He founded InSoft in 1986 and was chief architect and developer for the Db2 products. As part of... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:20am - 11:20am BST
Luis

Track E, Technical Session

Topic Best Practices, Latest and Features z/OS, Performance and Monitoring
Audience Intermediate
Platform z/OS

11:30am BST

A11 From Pay Slips to P1 Incidents: Db2 for z/OS in a Payroll Company

Wednesday September 30, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm BST

Infante

In this session, I provide an inside look at how Db2 is used, operated, and evolved within SD Worx, a payroll/HR service provider, running running a mixed COBOL and .NET application landscape.
The presentation walks through the Db2 environment at SD Worx and illustrates real-world production workloads (with its struggles). We'll explore trends in Db2 growth, the impact of data integration (including the migration from IDMS), and how replication technologies are used to offload reporting, analytics, and decentral processing without impacting core workloads.
Special attention is given to Db2 Connect and connection management challenges in distributed .NET environments. Including real‑world P1 incidents (don't trust your distributed teams blindly!) and how to avoid them using Db2 Profiles, driver configuration and monitoring.Db2 Profiles are also used to regain control over legacy clients and get rid of the soon to be deprecated (and this time for real!) synonyms, which will be explained

Speakers

Tim Vermeulen

Senior Technical Staff Member, SD Worx

Tim Vermeulen started his career where many Db2 problems are first observed: as a mainframe operator, watching production at 3 a.m. and wondering who scheduled that job. From there, he grew into an application DBA, then a Db2 for z/OS system DBA - a role he still actively performs... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm BST
Infante

Track A, Technical Session

Topic User Stories
Audience All
Platform z/OS

11:30am BST

B11 Bringing Mainframe into the Future: OpenTelemetry for Db2 for z/OS

Wednesday September 30, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm BST

Arrabida

OpenTelemetry is rapidly becoming the industry standard for application observability —offering a unified approach across distributed platforms. But did you know that even mainframe applications and subsystems can now be part of this modern observability ecosystem?
In this session, we’ll dive into what OpenTelemetry means from a Db2 for z/OS perspective. You’ll learn its core concepts, why they matter for mainframe environments, and how to take your first steps toward OpenTelemetry-based end-to-end monitoring of Db2 for z/OS applications with minimal effort. We’ll also highlight common pitfalls and explain why OpenTelemetry complements — rather than replaces — traditional Db2 monitoring.

Speakers

Christoph Theisen

Principal Solutions Advisor, Rocket Software

Christoph began his career in IBM’s Global Services unit in 1991, working on numerous client engagements — primarily focused on Db2 for z/OS — as an application developer, database administrator, architect, and consultant. Over time, his role evolved into that of a Client Technical... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm BST
Arrabida

Track B, Technical Session

Topic Latest and Features z/OS, Modernization in Operations, Performance and Monitoring
Audience All
Platform z/OS

11:30am BST

E11 Exploring Db2 explain facility for the next Gen of Db2 DBAs and using AI to bridge the skills gap.

Wednesday September 30, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm BST

Luis

Poorly written or optimized Db2 SQL queries can use huge amounts of CPU and render applications unusable causing business impact.
This session will cover the different types of access paths the Db2 Optimizes uses to return data for queries and discuss their merits and use cases. We will look at the data written by the DB2 optimizer in the EXPLAIN tables and how we can interpret the data using AI to determine if an SQL is going to be cheap or expensive to run.
The session will cover filter factors and the role of RUNSTATS on access path selection and cover how one can influence the access path.

Speakers

Phill Baker

Software Consultant, BMC

A passionate technologist specializing in BMC mainframe solutions. Twenty plus years experience working as a Database engineer across Db2, SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle. Working on mainframe z/OS, AIX, Linux, UNIX and Windows, supporting large scale data warehouse applications to... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm BST
Luis

Track E, Technical Session

Topic Back to Basics
Audience Beginner
Platform z/OS

2:00pm BST

A12 Db2 13 for z/OS – DDF Connection Security controls

Wednesday September 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm BST

Infante

Db2 for z/OS offers advanced capabilities to strengthen security management in distributed environments. This session discusses best practices for establishing secure connections including protected ID authentication using SSL, IDT, or trusted connection. This session also reviews the key system parameters that govern distributed access and discusses how system profile tables can be leveraged to enforce granular connection controls and secure TCP/IP connectivity.

Speakers

Gayathiri Chandran

Customer Success Manager and Principal Consultant, IBM

Gayathiri Chandran is a Senior Technical Staff Member in Db2 for z/OS development at IBM Silicon Valley Lab driving Db2 security strategy and delivery. She provides technical leadership across enterprise security initiatives, contributes to database security standards, and is a frequent... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm BST
Infante

Track A, Technical Session

Topic Best Practices, Security and Compliance
Audience All
Platform z/OS

2:00pm BST

B12 Db2 critical events monitoring

Wednesday September 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm BST

Arrabida

Db2 for z/OS environments generate thousands of system messages and codes every day, only a small subset of which indicate truly critical conditions. This session focuses on how Db2 DBAs can effectively identify, interpret, and respond to critical events that threaten system availability, data integrity, resource consumption, and security. Starting from the structure and meaning of Db2 messages, reason codes, and return codes, the presentation walks through real-world scenarios such as log space exhaustion, storage shortages, dataset access failures, and recovery-related errors. Attendees will learn how to distinguish symptoms from root causes and how timely detection can prevent hangs, outages, and data loss. The session emphasizes a proactive monitoring and troubleshooting approach based on SYSLOG and Db2 address space analysis. It is aimed at Db2 DBAs who want to strengthen operational resilience, improve incident response, and consistently meet SLA and recovery objectives.

Speakers

Roberto Cason

Sales Engineer Manager, BMC Software

Wednesday September 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm BST
Arrabida

Track B, Technical Session

Topic Performance and Monitoring
Audience All
Platform z/OS

2:00pm BST

F12 Hidden in Plain Sight: Unlocking Db2 for z/OS Recovery Capabilities at NatWest

Wednesday September 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm BST

Miragaia

In 2025, NatWest undertook a comprehensive reassessment of its Db2 recovery strategy to align with evolving banking regulations and to take advantage of modern platform capabilities. This review aimed to uncover limitations in existing processes, improve operational performance, and strengthen compliance.
As part of this effort, the bank evaluated Db2 utility features and automation tools that could streamline recovery activities, enforce consistent best‑practice standards, and reduce the need for continual manual tuning of utility options. Future resilience was also a priority, with the strategy designed to support NatWest’s planned adoption of Cyber Vault technology.
This session explores the challenges encountered throughout the transformation, the solutions implemented to overcome them, and the best practices that emerged—highlighting how NatWest is modernising its Db2 recovery landscape while preparing for the future.

Speakers

Dhiren Chaudhary

Db2 Technical Lead, NatWest Group, NatWest Group

I am a Technical Lead for Db2 at NatWest Group responsible for Db2 strategy and direction at the Bank. I oversee design for Db2 related new applications or changes to existing implementations. I also maintain the various standards related to Design, Performance, Utilities, Naming... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm BST
Miragaia

Track F, Technical Session

Topic Back to Basics, Best Practices, Database Resiliency, User Stories, Utilities
Audience All
Platform z/OS

3:20pm BST

A102 Z Data and Application integration for Analytics and AI

Wednesday September 30, 2026 3:20pm - 4:20pm BST

Infante

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.

Speakers

Cüneyt Göksu

Executive IT Specialist, IBM

Cüneyt Göksu is an Executive IT Specialist for IBM® Z solutions in the context of Data and AI in IBM Germany Development Lab as a member of Center of Excellence team. He holds MBA, Bachelor’s degree and PhD in Computer Science. He has been working with Db2 for z/OS and IBM Z... Read More →

Sponsors

IBM

IBM Db2 is the cloud-native database built to power low latency transactions and real-time analytics at scale. It provides a single engine for DBAs, enterprise architects, and developers to keep critical applications running, store and query anything, and power faster decision making... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 3:20pm - 4:20pm BST
Infante

PSP, PSP

Topic PSP
Audience All
Platform z/OS
Company IBM

3:20pm BST

B102 I Know Why I’m Seeing Red: Db2 Performance Dashboards

Wednesday September 30, 2026 3:20pm - 4:20pm BST

Arrabida

Managing a complex Db2 for z/OS environment requires efficiently moving from seeing raw data to gaining actionable insights. This session examines how organizations are leveraging modern dashboards to streamline traditional DBA analysis and troubleshooting. We will explore real-world customer use cases that focus on core operational needs: maintaining real-time situational awareness of system health, rapidly isolating locking conflicts during issue investigations, and proactively tuning resource allocations like buffer pools. You will also get a glimpse into how Broadcom’s native, in-house built dashboards can help you quickly flag systemic issues and optimize overall subsystem performance. Join us to share your perspectives, collaborate with fellow DBAs, and help us refine the next generation of Db2 tooling.

Speakers

Rabah Beggar

Software Developer, Broadcom

Product Manager at Broadcom, part of the team shaping the strategy and roadmap for mainframe database and infrastructure tools (IMS & Db2). I focus on simplifying complex operations and enhancing the experience for enterprise customers running critical workloads on the mainframe... Read More →

Michal Bialecki

Principal Software Engineer, Broadcom

Michal Bialecki is a Db2 Technical Consultant at Broadcom, bringing over 20 years of experience to the role. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2025, he spent two decades working remotely for IBM Silicon Valley Lab, where he served as a member of Db2 z/OS Development SWAT team with John... Read More →

Sibel Tavsiz

Halkbank

Sponsors

Broadcom

Broadcom Mainframe Software specializes in DevOps, Security, AIOps, and other solutions for vital infrastructure including Db2 for z/OS. We enable our clients to embrace open technologies, securely integrate mainframes as part of their cloud, and innovate to amplify greater value... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 3:20pm - 4:20pm BST
Arrabida

PSP, PSP

Topic PSP
Audience All
Platform z/OS
Company Broadcom

3:20pm BST

D102 Your AI Is Only as Good as the Intelligence Behind It

Wednesday September 30, 2026 3:20pm - 4:20pm BST

Maria

Organizations are eager to apply AI to improve mainframe operations, but many still struggle with fragmented information, inconsistent processes, and difficulty making expertise available when and where it is needed most.

This session explores how Db2 and IMS teams can turn operational data, performance history, and domain expertise into actionable guidance that supports faster problem resolution and more consistent decision-making. We'll examine why context matters, how organizations can reduce reliance on tribal knowledge, and what is required to make AI recommendations relevant, explainable, and useful in enterprise environments.

Through real-world examples, attendees will learn how operational intelligence helps teams improve resilience, accelerate onboarding, and make better decisions without sacrificing governance or human oversight.

Attendee Takeaways

- Reduce dependence on tribal knowledge by making expertise more accessible.
- Understand what makes AI recommendations trustworthy and actionable.
- Learn how operational intelligence supports resilience and faster problem resolution.
- Identify the governance and human-review practices needed for enterprise AI adoption.

Speakers

Marcus Davage

Lead Product Developer, BMC Software Ltd

I’m a senior engineering leader with more than 35 years working across IBM Z, Db2 for z/OS, and large‑scale enterprise systems — helping organisations cut cost, reduce risk, and modernise. My career has focused on solving the kinds of performance, scalability, and architectural... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 3:20pm - 4:20pm BST
Maria

PSP, PSP

Topic PSP
Platform z/OS
Company BMC

4:30pm BST

A13 Db2 for z/OS Expert Panel

Wednesday September 30, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm BST

Infante

Wednesday September 30, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm BST
Infante

Track A, Expert Panel

Topic Expert
Audience All
Platform z/OS

5:40pm BST

A14 DDF Best Practice

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:40pm - 6:40pm BST

Infante

Db2 Distributed Data Facility (DDF) is the gateway to delivering business enterprise data in our modern world of cloud computing. DDF is widely exploited in the information technology space and this session aims to share best practices and success stories to optimize your business with DDF. Some of the topics includes, infrastructure, security, protecting data over the network, monitoring resources (threads/connections), sysplex workload balancing, and so forth. The objective of this session is provide you with practical, useful knowledge that you can take back to your work and manage DDF confidently.

Speakers

Derek Tempongko

PM, IBM Silicon Valley Lab

Derek Tempongko is a Senior Software Engineer on the Db2 for z/OS distributed development team at the IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory. With over 20 years of experience in Distributed Data Facility (DDF), presented at previous IDUG events, authored a Redpaper on TLS/SSL which has been... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:40pm - 6:40pm BST
Infante

Track A, Technical Session

Topic Best Practices, Database Resiliency, Performance and Monitoring
Audience All
Platform z/OS

5:40pm BST

B14 The Db2z Game: From 90% to "The 1% Club"

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:40pm - 6:40pm BST

Arrabida

Think you’re in the elite 1% of Db2 for z/OS pros? Or just starting your journey to the top? Ditch the slides for a high-stakes, 1% Club style tournament! We’ll scale the heights of Db2 knowledge together, from SQL basics to zIIP offloading and hex-level internals. It’s a no-shame game where every wrong answer leads to a deep-dive technical debrief. Come for the fun, stay for the insights, and level up your Db2 skills!

Speakers

Michal Bialecki

Principal Software Engineer, Broadcom

Julia Carter

Db2 Technical Consultant, Broadcom

Julia Carter has 20 years' experience with Db2 and is a Db2 Consultant at Broadcom in Europe. Previously she has worked as a Database Administrator for banks in the UK and Mexico.
She is a member of the IDUG Content Committee and Global Marketing Committee and is co-host of the IDUG Db2 Table Talk podcasts. Julia has been an IBM Champion for Data and AI since 2020... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:40pm - 6:40pm BST
Arrabida

Track B, Technical Session

Topic Best Practices
Audience All
Platform z/OS

5:40pm BST

D14 Db2 for z/OS Tuning Techniques: Practical Strategies for Maximum Performance

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:40pm - 6:40pm BST

Maria

With growing data volumes, mixed workloads, and strict SLAs, effective tuning demands a structured, end-to-end approach.
This session focuses on practical, real-world Db2 tuning techniques that deliver measurable performance improvements in production systems. Attendees will learn how to identify high-cost SQL using Db2 accounting and statistics data, analyse access paths with EXPLAIN, and apply targeted tuning at the SQL, object, and subsystem levels.
Topics include SQL and predicate optimization, index design best practices, EDM pool and sort tuning considerations, and understanding performance differences between static and dynamic SQL.
Participants will leave with actionable techniques they can immediately apply to improve response times and control Db2 CPU usage.

Speakers

Devanand Karunakaran

Senior Technical Advisor, BMC Software

Senior Solution Engineer at BMC, help our customers get the most out of our BMC AMI Data for Db2 and IMS products. Also, help our customers modernize their mainframe environment to meet their business and market demands. Have expertise on IBM MVS zOS DB2 and IMS mainframe platforms... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:40pm - 6:40pm BST
Maria

Track D, Technical Session

Topic Best Practices, Performance and Monitoring, User Stories
Audience Intermediate
Platform z/OS

5:40pm BST

E14 Detect, analyze and reduce IX Splits using RTS History.

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:40pm - 6:40pm BST

Luis

Index pages splitting is a normal DB2 process when inserting or updating rows into table. However, this process can consume CPU resources and generate latch contention especially in a Data Sharing environment. Index page splits in also the main cause of index disorganization. In this presentation we will see how to identify costly index page splits and reduce their frequency with the help of RTS history tables.

Speakers

Laurent Kuperberg

Db2 technical consultant, SQLK

Laurent has 30 years of experience in the DB2 world as a consultant. He has acquired expertise ranging from database design to system administration and data sharing.
He has developed his own REXX tools, which he makes available to everyone.
He also provides DB2 training... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:40pm - 6:40pm BST
Luis

Track E, Technical Session

Topic Best Practices, Performance and Monitoring, User Stories
Audience Intermediate
Platform z/OS

5:40pm BST

F14 Beyond COPY: Modern Recovery Strategies in Db2 for z/OS—Balancing Speed, Resilience, and Automation

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:40pm - 6:40pm BST

Miragaia

In modern DB2 for z/OS environments, delivering efficient, resilient, and reliable services depends on the alignment of multiple critical components. With the introduction of DORA regulations, the focus has evolved from simply ensuring service continuity to enhancing it by making recovery processes faster, more robust, and easier to manage.
While many technologies and strategies already support service continuity, real-world scenarios still reveal gaps, particularly when unexpected errors lead to temporary service disruptions impacting customers.
Starting from a legacy disaster recovery framework based on traditional batch jobs, we conducted a thorough assessment to identify limitations in flexibility, performance, and reliability. Building on this foundation, we redesigned and enhanced recovery processes by introducing new strategies, improving automation, and increasing customization to better align with business objectives.
In this presentation, we share our journey: from understand

Speakers

Andrea Luca Boaretto

DB2 Administrator, Nexi Payments

I am a dedicated Database Administrator (DBA) at Nexi, a leading European PayTech company. I specialize in managing, optimizing, and securing complex database infrastructures that support mission-critical payment systems. With a strong focus on performance tuning, high availability... Read More →

Martin Crippa

Senior Solution Enginner, Nexi Payments

DB2 System Administrator with two years of experience working with IBM Db2 on z/OS. Currently working at Nexi Payments, managing DB2 environments supporting payment systems.
Experienced in both DBA and system-level activities, including database object management, system maintenance, and migration projects. Focused on ensuring performance, stability, and reliability in mission-critical environments... Read More →

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:40pm - 6:40pm BST
Miragaia

Track F, Technical Session

Topic Database Resiliency, User Stories
Audience Intermediate
Platform z/OS

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