IDUG EMEA 2026

IDUG EMEA 2026

9:00am BST

A201 Db2 z/OS Housekeeping Best Practices ArrabidaEmil Kotrc • Toine Michielse C201 From Db2 First Responder to Emergency Technician - The problem determination master workshop MariaOlaf Depper • Thomas Rech E201 Building AI Applications with a Serverless Database Workshop JoaoAndrew Hilden

1:00pm BST

Lunch for Workshop Attendees Archive

2:00pm BST

A202 Db2 for z/OS modernized: Visual Studio Code deep dive ArrabidaJim Endler • Michal Bialecki • Sergei Osadchuk • Denis Tronin B202 Next Chapter for Db2 for z/OS Administration and Development - Workshop PortoSueli Almeida • Brian Tsao C202 Believe It. Try It. Master Db2 Pacemaker on Any Cloud in 4 Hours. MariaNisha Choudhary • Thomas Rech D202 IBM z Cyber Vault from a z/OS perspective Workshop LuisPatric Becker E202 SQL Correction Agent: Building a Self-Correcting AI Agent for Db2 JoaoNiraj Garudkar

8:45am BST

K1 AI Mythbusters and Db2 NobleNamik Hrle • Tracy Hutcheson • John Campbell

9:00am BST

IDUG Badging Laboratory IDUG Certification Laboratory

10:00am BST

Coffee Break Archive

10:20am BST

A1 Spotlight: Db2 for z/OS Trends and Directions InfanteHaakon Roberts

11:30am BST

A2 Hard Lessons Learned with High Performance DBATs for Db2 for z/OS InfanteJohn Campbell C2 Latest From the Lab PortoMike Springgay E2 Improved availability and modernization of legacy systems through the evolution of Universal Table Space (UTS) LuisFrances Villafuerte

12:30pm BST

2:00pm BST

A3 What’s New in Db2 for z/OS Performance InfanteAkiko Hoshikawa B3 My new besties: the Utilities tables ArrabidaSoledad Martínez C3 Cloud Update: The latest on Db2 Fully Managed Services PortoVenkatesh Gopal D3 Underrated ITC Tables in Db2 MariaAlexander Veremev E3 Autonomous Auditing: High Score on Db2 Security Features LuisSteen Rasmussen F3 Connect, Visualise, Predict: Visualization Db2 Data on z/OS using Python libraries and Machine learning tools. MiragaiaNiraj Garudkar

3:00pm BST

Coffee Break Archive

3:20pm BST

A4 Supercharging Db2 with Generative AI: From Natural Language Queries to Autonomous Performance Optimization InfanteChris Crone C4 Performance monitoring made simple PortoLeo Pedron D4 What's New in V12.1 Security MariaGreg Stager E4 Smarter Db2 REORGs : A Real-World User Story LuisShivam Pratap Singh

4:30pm BST

C5 400 TB of LOBs witin a single Table - Challenges during growth over 25 Years PortoNorbert Menzel D5 Db2 AI Query Rewrite MariaCalisto Zuzarte E5 Power-Up for Db2: A Guide to Modernizing Administration with Python and Ansible LuisNorbert Munkel F5 When REORGs Go Wild: Managing Unexpected Partition Growth in DB2 PBG Tablespaces MiragaiaZoe Andreopoulou • Michal Bialecki

5:30pm BST

Welcome Reception Archive

9:00am BST

K2 IBM NobleIBM IDUG Badging Laboratory IDUG Certification Laboratory

10:00am BST

Coffee Break Archive

10:20am BST

A6 Strategic Efficiency: Maximizing Db2 Utilities InfanteDenis Tronin B6 From Complexity to Operational Intelligence: Modernizing Database Administration with AI on IBM Z ArrabidaAkiko Hoshikawa • Brian Tsao F6 Scripting Db2 for z/OS MiragaiaPhilip Nelson

11:30am BST

A7 Db2 for z/OS Utilities Best Practices InfanteHaakon Roberts B7 Revisiting Query Parallelism: Targeted Use of zIIP Processors for Db2 Queries ArrabidaThomas Baumann D7 Near zero downtime migration to Db2 12.1 MariaChristiane Beyer

12:30pm BST

2:00pm BST

A8 BMC AMI Db2 Utilities - What's New InfanteMichael Cotignola B8 Get Cozy with WLM: Why Every Db2 DBA Needs to Understand Workload Management ArrabidaDenis Tronin C8 Db2 Meets Generative AI: Agentic AI, Vector Search, and Beyond. PortoJillian Quiller • Mike Springgay

3:00pm BST

Coffee Break Archive

3:20pm BST

A101 Your GenAI Journey Takes CenterStage InfanteBroadcom B101 Coming Soon Arrabida

4:30pm BST

C9 Mining db2mon PortoKen Shaffer D9 More SQL tricks with Db2 MariaAndreas Weininger E9 Seamless SNA/VTAM migration (preconditioning for next version of Db2) LuisDerek Tempongko F9 Fun with SQL 2026 MiragaiaBrian Laube

5:30pm BST

Evening Reception Archive

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

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

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 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 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

4:30pm BST

A13 Db2 for z/OS Expert Panel Infante 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

9:00am BST

E15 Vibe Coding with a Serverless Database LuisAndrew Hilden IDUG Badging Laboratory IDUG Certification Laboratory

10:00am BST

Coffee Break Archive

10:20am BST

D16 Db2 as Containerized Deployment MariaVijaya Katikireddy E16 Getting Started with OpenTelemetry for Db2: Metrics, Traces, and What They Really Mean LuisRabah Beggar

11:30am BST

B17 Leave the dark side – Turn on the lights in Db2 performance management ArrabidaTim Meisner • Gerald Pfeiffer D17 Using Db2 for more than just relational data MariaAndreas Weininger F17 Architecting the Perfect Restore: Mastering Db2 Copies, and Compliance MiragaiaAhmed Hamed • Vyacheslav Stebletsov

12:40pm BST

K4 Computer and Data Ethics - What it is and Why it Matters to Data Professionals NobleHenrik Loeser