IDUG EMEA 2026

IDUG EMEA 2026

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9:00am BST

K3 Women in Technology (WIT): TEAMship – The Human Side of High Performance NobleAnn Wauters IDUG Badging Laboratory IDUG Certification Laboratory

10:00am BST

Coffee Break Archive

10:20am BST

A10 Linuxification of Db2 for z/OS - a journey from ISPF and JCL to Shell and Playbooks InfanteEmil Kotrc • Marketa Muzikova B10 Db2 13 latest real customer experiences - new functions, best practices and some more… ArrabidaUte Kleyensteuber C1 Db2 Spotlight Session / Latest News PortoDavid Kalmuk C10 Experiences with the AI Query Optimiser PortoMark Gillis D10 Make you data comparable by VECTORizing MariaMartin Heitkämper E10 “Stabilize your Dynamic SQL and don’t let it remain Unpredictable” LuisColin Oakhill F10 AI Agents Meet Mainframe: Building MCP Servers on Replicated Db2 z/OS Data MiragaiaCüneyt Göksu • Mateo Tošić

10:30am BST

IDUG Db2 for LUW Essentials Glass 1Davor Rodnis IDUG Db2 for z/OS Essentials NobleDougie Lawson

11:30am BST

A11 From Pay Slips to P1 Incidents: Db2 for z/OS in a Payroll Company InfanteTim Vermeulen B11 Bringing Mainframe into the Future: OpenTelemetry for Db2 for z/OS ArrabidaChristoph Theisen C11 DB2 Backup and Recovery - back to the basics PortoDale McInnis D11 Data Lake Architecture for Scale: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Best Practices based on BaFin's first data lake MariaOlaf Stephan E11 Exploring Db2 explain facility for the next Gen of Db2 DBAs and using AI to bridge the skills gap. LuisPhill Baker F11 SQL Oldies but Goodies and the Power of the SQL Rewrite MiragaiaTony Andrews

12:30pm BST

Lunch & Passport to Prizes Drawing Archive

2:00pm BST

A12 Db2 13 for z/OS – DDF Connection Security controls InfanteGayathiri Chandran B12 Db2 critical events monitoring ArrabidaRoberto Cason C12 Advanced Performance Diagnostics for SQL PortoDavid Kalmuk D12 Meta-Programming the Migration: Automating Zero-Disk Loads from Oracle RDS to Db2 OpenShift via Federation and Python MariaRobert Proffitt E12 SQL Injection on SterAIds: Is Your Db2 Ready for AI-Assisted Attackers? LuisPetr Plavjaník F12 Hidden in Plain Sight: Unlocking Db2 for z/OS Recovery Capabilities at NatWest MiragaiaDhiren Chaudhary

3:00pm BST

Coffee Break Archive

3:20pm BST

A102 Z Data and Application integration for Analytics and AI InfanteIBM B102 I Know Why I’m Seeing Red: Db2 Performance Dashboards ArrabidaBroadcom C102 Smart Db2 Administration (z/LUW) PortoIBM D102 Coming Soon Maria F102 Coming Soon Miragaia

4:30pm BST

A13 Db2 for z/OS Expert Panel Infante B13 Introduction to SQL-PL ArrabidaLes King C13 A brief history of a query: from the PreparedStatement to the ResultSet - how queries gets executed in Db2 database? PortoKamil Kuduk D13 Db2 LUW Table Partition Management MariaDavid Lynch E13 Efficient Scans on Columnar Tables LuisAndreas Weininger F13 Do you think you know pureScale? Come test your knowledge MiragaiaChristian Garcia-Arellano

5:40pm BST

C14 Db2 for LUW Expert Panel Porto A14 DDF Best Practice InfanteDerek Tempongko B14 The Db2z Game: From 90% to "The 1% Club" ArrabidaMichal Bialecki • Julia Carter D14 Db2 for z/OS Tuning Techniques: Practical Strategies for Maximum Performance MariaDevanand Karunakaran E14 Detect, analyze and reduce IX Splits using RTS History. LuisLaurent Kuperberg F14 Beyond COPY: Modern Recovery Strategies in Db2 for z/OS—Balancing Speed, Resilience, and Automation MiragaiaAndrea Luca Boaretto • Martin Crippa