IDUG EMEA 2026

IDUG EMEA 2026

9:00am BST

B201 Hands-on Lab: zDBA - Infusing Db2 for z/OS with AI ArrabidaJae Lee • Brian Tsao

2:00pm BST

B202 Next Chapter for Db2 for z/OS Administration and Development - Workshop ArrabidaDerek Tempongko C202 Believe It. Try It. Master Db2 Pacemaker on Any Cloud in 4 Hours. PortoNisha Choudhary • Thomas Rech E202 SQL Correction Agent: Building a Self-Correcting AI Agent for Db2 LuisNiraj Garudkar • Marcus Davage

3:20pm BST

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

10:20am BST

B6 From Complexity to Operational Intelligence: Modernizing Database Administration with AI on IBM Z ArrabidaAkiko Hoshikawa • Brian Tsao D6 Permitting, masking and trusting, a deep dive into 3 new Db2 12.1 security features MariaGreg Stager F6 Explain EXPLAIN MiragaiaRoland Schock

2:00pm BST

C8 Db2 Meets Generative AI: Agentic AI, Vector Search, and Beyond. PortoJillian Quiller • Mike Springgay

4:30pm BST

B9 Buffer Pool tuning process with a reverse application analysis ArrabidaPawel Hryb

10:20am BST

A10 Linuxification of Db2 for z/OS - a journey from ISPF and JCL to Shell and Playbooks InfanteEmil Kotrc • Marketa Muzikova

11:30am BST

B11 Bringing Mainframe into the Future: OpenTelemetry for Db2 for z/OS ArrabidaChristoph Theisen D11 Db2 LUW's Always On Architecture MariaDale McInnis • Marcin Marczewski

9:00am BST

C15 A Modern Approach to Db2 Backup & Recovery: Snapshot Technology with Cloud Integration PortoThomas Rech

2:30pm BST

C203 Amazon RDS for Db2 Workshop MariaHafsa Ali • Javeed Mohammed