IDUG EMEA 2026

IDUG EMEA 2026

11:30am BST

B2 Assessing Your Db2 Security for z/OS Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Data) ArrabidaJørn Thyssen D2 Bridging Relational and Data Lake Architectures: Db2 Datalake Tables MariaOlivier Bernin

3:20pm BST

B4 Z Data Integration Update ArrabidaCüneyt Göksu • Mateo Tošić F4 Insights and experiences from GarantiBBVA's Fast Traverse Block index implementation in production MiragaiaAyşenur Başoğlu • Gülfem Öğütgen

4:30pm BST

A5 Starter’s Guide to Db2 for z/OS Group Buffer Pool Monitoring and Tuning InfanteBart Steegmans B5 Beyond the Basics: Backup and Recovery for Resilient Db2 Environments ArrabidaRahul Bajaj • Aysen Svoboda

10:20am BST

D6 Permitting, masking and trusting, a deep dive into 3 new Db2 12.1 security features MariaGreg Stager E6 High Availability Q-replication in a heterogeneous Db2 HA environment LuisSven Heidorn

11:30am BST

C7 Db2 AI Query Optimizer: Smarter Plans, Less Tuning PortoLiam Finnie E7 Why this query runs so slow? Step-by-step SQL troubleshooting with MON_GET interfaces and event monitors LuisKamil Kuduk F7 The Anatomy of Universal Tablespaces MiragaiaEmil Kotrc

2:00pm BST

D8 SQL in Action: One Statement to Rule Them All - MERGE and integrated SQL operations MariaMichael Tiefenbacher E8 "No pain - no gain - story of optimizing DELETE purge processing" LuisTereza Binarova F8 Ready Player One? Db2 vNext Migration (Made Easy) MiragaiaRoy Boxwell

4:30pm BST

A9 Db2 zOS Utility Internals — and How to Get the Most Out of Them InfantePreetham Kannan • Kiran Seela B9 Buffer Pool tuning process with a reverse application analysis ArrabidaPawel Hryb

10:20am BST

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

11:30am BST

D11 Data Lake Architecture for Scale: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Best Practices based on BaFin's first data lake MariaOlaf Stephan

2:00pm BST

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

4:30pm BST

C13 A brief history of a query: from the PreparedStatement to the ResultSet - how queries gets executed in Db2 database? PortoKamil Kuduk

5:40pm BST

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

9:00am BST

A15 JC Greatest Hits, War Stories and Best Practice 2026 InfanteJohn Campbell B15 Db2 Analytics Accelerator: V8, Migration experiences, future and customer updates ArrabidaCüneyt Göksu • Björn Broll C15 A Modern Approach to Db2 Backup & Recovery: Snapshot Technology with Cloud Integration PortoThomas Rech

10:20am BST

A16 Get ready for Db2 version 13+1 InfanteMartin Ålund B16 From Lilliput to Brobdingnag. Compression flavors in Db2 for z/OS ArrabidaRamon Menendez C16 Fine-Tuning Db2 Datalake Tables Performance PortoOlivier Bernin F16 Db2 Connect – New Challenges and New Opportunities MiragaiaChristoph Theisen

11:30am BST

A17 DB2 for z/OS Workfile Deep Dive - How to Survive and Thrive InfanteAdrian Collett • Bart Steegmans C17 Accelerating AI Workloads in Db2 v12.1.5.0: Introducing High‑Performance Vector Indexes PortoChristian Garcia-Arellano E17 Db2 13 for z/OS – Security updates LuisGayathiri Chandran

2:30pm BST

A203 From Problem SQL to Proven Gains: Tuning Performance on Db2 for z/OS InfanteCarlos Davis C203 Amazon RDS for Db2 Workshop MariaHafsa Ali • Javeed Mohammed