IDUG EMEA 2026

Lunch for Workshop Attendees 1:00pm - 2:00pm

A201 Db2 z/OS Housekeeping Best Practices 9:00am - 1:00pm

A202 Db2 for z/OS modernized: Visual Studio Code deep dive 2:00pm - 6:00pm

E201 Building AI Applications with a Serverless Database Workshop 9:00am - 1:00pm

E202 SQL Correction Agent: Building a Self-Correcting AI Agent for Db2 2:00pm - 6:00pm

D202 IBM z Cyber Vault from a z/OS perspective Workshop 2:00pm - 6:00pm

C201 From Db2 First Responder to Emergency Technician - The problem determination master workshop 9:00am - 1:00pm

C202 Believe It. Try It. Master Db2 Pacemaker on Any Cloud in 4 Hours. 2:00pm - 6:00pm

B201 Hands-on Lab: Project Aura - Infusing Db2 for z/OS with AI 9:00am - 1:00pm

B202 Next Chapter for Db2 for z/OS Administration and Development - Workshop 2:00pm - 6:00pm

Coffee Break

Lunch 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Coffee Break

Welcome Reception 5:30pm - 7:00pm

B2 Assessing Your Db2 Security for z/OS Without Losing Your Mind... 11:30am - 12:30pm

B3 My new besties: the Utilities tables 2:00pm - 3:00pm

B4 Z Data Integration Update 3:20pm - 4:20pm

B5 Beyond the Basics: Backup and Recovery for Resilient Db2 Envi... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

IDUG Db2 for LUW Essentials 10:30am - 5:30pm

A1 Spotlight: Db2 for z/OS Trends and Directions 10:20am - 11:20am

A2 Hard Lessons Learned with High Performance DBATs for Db2 for... 11:30am - 12:30pm

A3 What’s New in Db2 for z/OS Performance 2:00pm - 3:00pm

A4 Supercharging Db2 with Generative AI: From Natural Language Q... 3:20pm - 4:20pm

A5 Starter’s Guide to Db2 for z/OS Group Buffer Pool Monitoring... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

IDUG Certification 9:00am - 5:30pm

IDUG Badging 9:00am - 5:30pm

E2 Improved availability and modernization of legacy systems thr... 11:30am - 12:30pm

E3 Autonomous Auditing: High Score on Db2 Security Features 2:00pm - 3:00pm

E4 Smarter Db2 REORGs : A Real-World User Story 3:20pm - 4:20pm

E5 Power-Up for Db2: A Guide to Modernizing Administration with... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

D2 Bridging Relational and Data Lake Architectures: Db2 Datalake... 11:30am - 12:30pm

D3 Underrated ITC Tables in Db2 2:00pm - 3:00pm

D4 What's New in V12.1 Security 3:20pm - 4:20pm

D5 Db2 AI Query Rewrite 4:30pm - 5:30pm

F2 Experiences with CDC Qlik Replicate as Db2 DBA 11:30am - 12:30pm

F3 Connect, Visualise, Predict: Visualization Db2 Data on z/OS u... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

F4 Insights and experiences from GarantiBBVA's Fast Traverse Blo... 3:20pm - 4:20pm

F5 When REORGs Go Wild: Managing Unexpected Partition Growth in... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

K1 AI Mythbusters and Db2 8:45am - 10:00am

IDUG Db2 for z/OS Essentials 10:30am - 5:30pm

C2 Latest From the Lab 11:30am - 12:30pm

C3 Cloud Update: The latest on Db2 Fully Managed Services 2:00pm - 3:00pm

C4 Performance monitoring made simple 3:20pm - 4:20pm

C5 400 TB of LOBs witin a single Table - Challenges during growt... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Coffee Break

Lunch 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Coffee Break

Evening Reception 5:30pm - 7:00pm

B6 From Complexity to Operational Intelligence: Modernizing Data... 10:20am - 11:20am

B7 Revisiting Query Parallelism: Targeted Use of zIIP Processors... 11:30am - 12:30pm

B8 Get Cozy with WLM: Why Every Db2 DBA Needs to Understand Work... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

B101 Coming Soon 3:20pm - 4:20pm

B9 Buffer Pool tuning process with a reverse application analysi... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

IDUG Db2 for LUW Essentials 10:30am - 5:30pm

A6 Strategic Efficiency: Maximizing Db2 Utilities 10:20am - 11:20am

A7 Db2 for z/OS Utilities Best Practices 11:30am - 12:30pm

A8 BMC AMI Db2 Utilities - What's New 2:00pm - 3:00pm

A101 Your GenAI Journey Takes CenterStage 3:20pm - 4:20pm

A9 Db2 zOS Utility Internals — and How to Get the Most Out of Th... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

IDUG Badging 9:00am - 5:30pm

IDUG Certification 9:00am - 5:30pm

E6 High Availability Q-replication in a heterogeneous Db2 HA env... 10:20am - 11:20am

E7 Why this query runs so slow? Step-by-step SQL troubleshooting... 11:30am - 12:30pm

E8 "No pain - no gain - story of optimizing DELETE purge process... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

E9 Seamless SNA/VTAM migration (preconditioning for next version... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

D6 Permitting, masking and trusting, a deep dive into 3 new Db2... 10:20am - 11:20am

D7 Near zero downtime migration to Db2 12.1 11:30am - 12:30pm

D8 SQL in Action: One Statement to Rule Them All - MERGE and int... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

D101 Coming Soon 3:20pm - 4:20pm

D9 More SQL tricks with Db2 4:30pm - 5:30pm

F6 Scripting Db2 for z/OS 10:20am - 11:20am

F7 The Anatomy of Universal Tablespaces 11:30am - 12:30pm

F8 Ready Player One? Db2 vNext Migration (Made Easy) 2:00pm - 3:00pm

F101 Coming Soon 3:20pm - 4:20pm

F9 Fun with SQL 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm

K2 IBM 9:00am - 10:00am

IDUG Db2 for z/OS Essentials 10:30am - 5:30pm

C6 Zero Downtime Dreams: A Newcomer’s Guide to Db2 Resilience 10:20am - 11:20am

C7 Db2 AI Query Optimizer: Smarter Plans, Less Tuning 11:30am - 12:30pm

C8 Db2 Meets Generative AI: Agentic AI, Vector Search, and Beyon... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

C101 Infusing Db2 with Agentic AI, Cloud Scale, and Quantum Resi... 3:20pm - 4:20pm

C9 Mining db2mon 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Coffee Break

Lunch & Passport to Prizes Drawing 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Coffee Break

B10 Db2 13 latest real customer experiences - new functions, bes... 10:20am - 11:20am

B11 Bringing Mainframe into the Future: OpenTelemetry for Db2 fo... 11:30am - 12:30pm

B12 Db2 critical events monitoring 2:00pm - 3:00pm

B102 I Know Why I’m Seeing Red: Db2 Performance Dashboards 3:20pm - 4:20pm

B13 Introduction to SQL-PL 4:30pm - 5:30pm

B14 The Db2z Game: From 90% to "The 1% Club" 5:40pm - 6:40pm

IDUG Db2 for LUW Essentials 10:30am - 5:30pm

A10 Linuxification of Db2 for z/OS - a journey from ISPF and JCL... 10:20am - 11:20am

A11 From Pay Slips to P1 Incidents: Db2 for z/OS in a Payroll Co... 11:30am - 12:30pm

A12 Db2 13 for z/OS – DDF Connection Security controls 2:00pm - 3:00pm

A102 Z Data and Application integration for Analytics and AI 3:20pm - 4:20pm

A13 Db2 for z/OS Expert Panel 4:30pm - 5:30pm

A14 DDF Best Practice 5:40pm - 6:40pm

IDUG Certification 9:00am - 5:30pm

IDUG Badging 9:00am - 5:30pm

E10 “Stabilize your Dynamic SQL and don’t let it remain Unpredic... 10:20am - 11:20am

E11 Exploring Db2 explain facility for the next Gen of Db2 DBAs... 11:30am - 12:30pm

E12 SQL Injection on SterAIds: Is Your Db2 Ready for AI-Assisted... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

E13 Efficient Scans on Columnar Tables 4:30pm - 5:30pm

E14 Detect, analyze and reduce IX Splits using RTS History. 5:40pm - 6:40pm

D10 Make you data comparable by VECTORizing 10:20am - 11:20am

D11 Data Lake Architecture for Scale: Patterns, Pitfalls, and Be... 11:30am - 12:30pm

D12 Meta-Programming the Migration: Automating Zero-Disk Loads f... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

D102 Coming Soon 3:20pm - 4:20pm

D13 Db2 LUW Table Partition Management 4:30pm - 5:30pm

D14 Db2 for z/OS Tuning Techniques: Practical Strategies for Max... 5:40pm - 6:40pm

F10 AI Agents Meet Mainframe: Building MCP Servers on Replicated... 10:20am - 11:20am

F11 SQL Oldies but Goodies and the Power of the SQL Rewrite 11:30am - 12:30pm

F12 Hidden in Plain Sight: Unlocking Db2 for z/OS Recovery Capab... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

F102 Coming Soon 3:20pm - 4:20pm

F13 Do you think you know pureScale? Come test your knowledge 4:30pm - 5:30pm

F14 Beyond COPY: Modern Recovery Strategies in Db2 for z/OS—Bala... 5:40pm - 6:40pm

K3 Women in Technology (WIT): TEAMship – The Human Side of High... 9:00am - 10:00am

IDUG Db2 for z/OS Essentials 10:30am - 5:30pm

C1 Db2 Spotlight Session / Latest News 10:20am - 11:20am

C10 Experiences with the AI Query Optimiser 10:20am - 11:20am

C11 DB2 Backup and Recovery - back to the basics 11:30am - 12:30pm

C12 Advanced Performance Diagnostics for SQL 2:00pm - 3:00pm

C102 Smart Db2 Administration (z/LUW) 3:20pm - 4:20pm

C13 A brief history of a query: from the PreparedStatement to th... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

C14 Db2 for LUW Expert Panel 5:40pm - 6:40pm

Coffee Break

B15 Db2 Analytics Accelerator: V8, Migration experiences, future... 9:00am - 10:00am

B16 From Lilliput to Brobdingnag. Compression flavors in Db2 for... 10:20am - 11:20am

B17 Leave the dark side – Turn on the lights in Db2 performance... 11:30am - 12:30pm

IDUG Db2 for LUW Essentials 9:00am - 12:30pm

A15 JC Greatest Hits, War Stories and Best Practice 2026 9:00am - 10:00am

A16 Get ready for Db2 version 13+1 10:20am - 11:20am

A17 DB2 for z/OS Workfile Deep Dive - How to Survive and Thrive 11:30am - 12:30pm

A203 From Problem SQL to Proven Gains: Tuning Performance on Db2 for z/OS 2:30pm - 6:30pm

IDUG Certification 9:00am - 12:30pm

IDUG Badging 9:00am - 12:30pm

E15 Vibe Coding with a Serverless Database 9:00am - 10:00am

E16 Getting Started with OpenTelemetry for Db2: Metrics, Traces,... 10:20am - 11:20am

E17 Db2 13 for z/OS – Security updates 11:30am - 12:30pm

B203 Hands-on Lab: Performing AI Queries with SQL Data Insights Pro 2:30pm - 6:30pm

D15 Db2 Upgrade Lessons the Manuals Don’t Teach You 9:00am - 10:00am

D16 Db2 as Containerized Deployment 10:20am - 11:20am

D17 Using Db2 for more than just relational data 11:30am - 12:30pm

C203 Amazon RDS for Db2 Workshop 2:30pm - 6:30pm

F15 Db2 Load – Strategies to speed up loading very large tables 9:00am - 10:00am

F16 Db2 Connect – New Challenges and New Opportunities 10:20am - 11:20am

F17 Architecting the Perfect Restore: Mastering Db2 Copies, and... 11:30am - 12:30pm

K4 Computer and Data Ethics - What it is and Why it Matters to Data P... 12:40pm - 1:45pm

C15 A Modern Approach to Db2 Backup & Recovery: Snapshot Technol... 9:00am - 10:00am

C16 Fine-Tuning Db2 Datalake Tables Performance 10:20am - 11:20am

C17 Accelerating AI Workloads in Db2 v12.1.5.0: Introducing High... 11:30am - 12:30pm