IDUG EMEA 2026

IDUG EMEA 2026

9:00am BST

B201 Hands-on Lab: Project Aura - Infusing Db2 for z/OS with AI PortoJae Lee • Brian Tsao C201 From Db2 First Responder to Emergency Technician - The problem determination master workshop MariaOlaf Depper • Thomas Rech

2:00pm BST

B202 Next Chapter for Db2 for z/OS Administration and Development - Workshop PortoSueli Almeida • Brian Tsao

11:30am BST

A2 Hard Lessons Learned with High Performance DBATs for Db2 for z/OS InfanteJohn Campbell

2:00pm BST

A3 What’s New in Db2 for z/OS Performance InfanteAkiko Hoshikawa D3 Underrated ITC Tables in Db2 MariaAlexander Veremev

3:20pm BST

C4 Performance monitoring made simple PortoLeo Pedron E4 Smarter Db2 REORGs : A Real-World User Story LuisShivam Pratap Singh 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 D5 Db2 AI Query Rewrite MariaCalisto Zuzarte

11:30am BST

B7 Revisiting Query Parallelism: Targeted Use of zIIP Processors for Db2 Queries ArrabidaThomas Baumann

2:00pm BST

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

4:30pm BST

B9 Buffer Pool tuning process with a reverse application analysis ArrabidaPawel Hryb C9 Mining db2mon PortoKen Shaffer

10:20am BST

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

11:30am BST

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

2:00pm BST

B12 Db2 critical events monitoring ArrabidaRoberto Cason C12 Advanced Performance Diagnostics for SQL PortoDavid Kalmuk

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 E13 Efficient Scans on Columnar Tables LuisAndreas Weininger

5:40pm BST

A14 DDF Best Practice InfanteDerek Tempongko 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

9:00am BST

A15 JC Greatest Hits, War Stories and Best Practice 2026 InfanteJohn Campbell

10:20am BST

B16 From Lilliput to Brobdingnag. Compression flavors in Db2 for z/OS ArrabidaRamon Menendez C16 Fine-Tuning Db2 Datalake Tables Performance PortoOlivier Bernin E16 Getting Started with OpenTelemetry for Db2: Metrics, Traces, and What They Really Mean LuisRabah Beggar

11:30am BST

A17 DB2 for z/OS Workfile Deep Dive - How to Survive and Thrive InfanteAdrian Collett • Bart Steegmans B17 Leave the dark side – Turn on the lights in Db2 performance management ArrabidaTim Meisner • Gerald Pfeiffer F17 Architecting the Perfect Restore: Mastering Db2 Copies, and Compliance MiragaiaAhmed Hamed • Vyacheslav Stebletsov

2:30pm BST

A203 From Problem SQL to Proven Gains: Tuning Performance on Db2 for z/OS InfanteCarlos Davis