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Sunday
, September 27
Arrabida
9:00am •
B201 Hands-on Lab: zDBA - Infusing Db2 for z/OS with AI
2:00pm •
B202 Next Chapter for Db2 for z/OS Administration and Development - Workshop
Infante
9:00am •
A201 Db2 z/OS Housekeeping Best Practices
2:00pm •
A202 Db2 for z/OS modernized: Visual Studio Code deep dive
Level 2 Foyer
1:00pm •
Lunch for Workshop Attendees
Luis
9:00am •
E201 Building AI Applications with a Serverless Database Workshop
2:00pm •
E202 SQL Correction Agent: Building a Self-Correcting AI Agent for Db2
Maria
2:00pm •
D202 IBM z Cyber Vault from a Db2 for z/OS perspective Workshop
Porto
9:00am •
C201 From Db2 First Responder to Emergency Technician - The problem determination master workshop
2:00pm •
C202 Believe It. Try It. Master Db2 Pacemaker on Any Cloud in 4 Hours.
Monday
, September 28
Archive
10:00am •
Coffee Break
12:30pm •
Lunch
3:00pm •
Coffee Break
5:30pm •
Welcome Reception
Arrabida
11:30am •
B2 Assessing Your Db2 Security for z/OS Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Data)
2:00pm •
B3 My new besties: the Utilities tables
3:20pm •
B4 Z Data Integration Update
4:30pm •
B5 Beyond the Basics: Backup and Recovery for Resilient Db2 Environments
Glass 1
10:30am •
IDUG Db2 for LUW Essentials
Infante
8:45am •
K1 AI Mythbusters and Db2
10:20am •
A1 Spotlight: Db2 for z/OS Trends and Directions
11:30am •
A2 Hard Lessons Learned with High Performance DBATs for Db2 for z/OS
2:00pm •
A3 What’s New in Db2 for z/OS Performance
3:20pm •
A4 Supercharging Db2 with Generative AI: From Natural Language Queries to Autonomous Performance Optimization
4:30pm •
A5 Starter’s Guide to Db2 for z/OS Group Buffer Pool Monitoring and Tuning
Luis
11:30am •
E2 Improved availability and modernization of legacy systems through the evolution of Universal Table Space (UTS)
2:00pm •
E3 Autonomous Auditing: High Score on Db2 Security Features
3:20pm •
E4 Smarter Db2 REORGs : A Real-World User Story
4:30pm •
E5 Power-Up for Db2: A Guide to Modernizing Administration with Python and Ansible
Maria
11:30am •
D2 Bridging Relational and Data Lake Architectures: Db2 Datalake Tables
2:00pm •
D3 Underrated ITC Tables in Db2
3:20pm •
D4 What's New in V12.1 Security
4:30pm •
D5 Db2 AI Query Rewrite
Miragaia
11:30am •
F2 Experiences with CDC Qlik Replicate as Db2 DBA
2:00pm •
F3 Connect, Visualise, Predict: Visualization Db2 Data on z/OS using Python libraries and Machine learning tools.
3:20pm •
F4 Insights and experiences from GarantiBBVA's Fast Traverse Block index implementation in production
4:30pm •
F5 When REORGs Go Wild: Managing Unexpected Partition Growth in DB2 PBG Tablespaces
Noble
10:30am •
IDUG Db2 for z/OS Essentials
Porto
10:20am •
C1 Db2 Spotlight Session / Latest News
11:30am •
C2 Latest From the Lab
2:00pm •
C3 Cloud Update: The latest on Db2 Fully Managed Services
3:20pm •
C4 Performance monitoring made simple
4:30pm •
C5 400 TB of LOBs witin a single Table - Challenges during growth over 25 Years
S. João
9:00am •
IDUG Badging
9:00am •
IDUG Certification
Tuesday
, September 29
Archive
10:00am •
Coffee Break
12:30pm •
Lunch
3:00pm •
Coffee Break
5:30pm •
Evening Reception
Arrabida
10:20am •
B6 From Complexity to Operational Intelligence: Modernizing Database Administration with AI on IBM Z
11:30am •
B7 Revisiting Query Parallelism: Targeted Use of zIIP Processors for Db2 Queries
2:00pm •
B8 Get Cozy with WLM: Why Every Db2 DBA Needs to Understand Workload Management
3:20pm •
B101 Runtime Insights: Turning Operational Data into Smarter Decisions
4:30pm •
B9 Buffer Pool tuning process with a reverse application analysis
Esplendor do Douro
7:30pm •
A Night Out with Broadcom
Glass 1
10:30am •
IDUG Db2 for LUW Essentials
Infante
9:00am •
K2From Trusted Data to Trusted AI: Unlocking Enterprise Value with Db2 and IBM Data Integration
10:20am •
A6 Strategic Efficiency: Maximizing Db2 Utilities
11:30am •
A7 Db2 for z/OS Utilities Best Practices
2:00pm •
A8 BMC AMI Db2 Utilities - What's New
3:20pm •
A101 Your GenAI Journey Takes CenterStage
4:30pm •
A9 Db2 zOS Utility Internals — and How to Get the Most Out of Them
Luis
10:20am •
E6 High Availability Q-replication in a heterogeneous Db2 HA environment
11:30am •
E7 Why this query runs so slow? Step-by-step SQL troubleshooting with MON_GET interfaces and event monitors
2:00pm •
E8 "No pain - no gain - story of optimizing DELETE purge processing"
4:30pm •
E9 Seamless SNA/VTAM migration (preconditioning for next version of Db2)
Maria
10:20am •
D6 Permitting, masking and trusting, a deep dive into 3 new Db2 12.1 security features
11:30am •
D7 Near zero downtime migration to Db2 12.1
2:00pm •
D8 SQL in Action: One Statement to Rule Them All - MERGE and integrated SQL operations
3:20pm •
D101 Accelerating Mainframe Understanding and Modernization with AI Agents from Infotel
4:30pm •
D9 More SQL tricks with Db2
Miragaia
10:20am •
F6 Explain EXPLAIN
11:30am •
F7 The Anatomy of Universal Tablespaces
2:00pm •
F8 Ready Player One? Db2 vNext Migration (Made Easy)
4:30pm •
F9 Fun with SQL 2026
Noble
10:30am •
IDUG Db2 for z/OS Essentials
Porto
10:20am •
C6 Zero Downtime Dreams: A Newcomer’s Guide to Db2 Resilience
11:30am •
C7 Db2 AI Query Optimizer: Smarter Plans, Less Tuning
2:00pm •
C8 Db2 Meets Generative AI: Agentic AI, Vector Search, and Beyond.
3:20pm •
C101 Infusing Db2 with Agentic AI, Cloud Scale, and Quantum Resilience
4:30pm •
C9 Mining db2mon
S. João
9:00am •
IDUG Badging
9:00am •
IDUG Certification
Wednesday
, September 30
Archive
10:00am •
Coffee Break
12:30pm •
Lunch & Passport to Prizes Drawing
3:00pm •
Coffee Break
Arrabida
10:20am •
B10 Db2 13 latest real customer experiences - new functions, best practices and some more…
11:30am •
B11 Bringing Mainframe into the Future: OpenTelemetry for Db2 for z/OS
2:00pm •
B12 Db2 critical events monitoring
3:20pm •
B102 I Know Why I’m Seeing Red: Db2 Performance Dashboards
4:30pm •
B13 Introduction to SQL-PL
5:40pm •
B14 The Db2z Game: From 90% to "The 1% Club"
Glass 1
10:30am •
IDUG Db2 for LUW Essentials
Infante
9:00am •
K3 Women in Technology (WIT): TEAMship – The Human Side of High Performance
10:20am •
A10 Linuxification of Db2 for z/OS - a journey from ISPF and JCL to Shell and Playbooks
11:30am •
A11 From Pay Slips to P1 Incidents: Db2 for z/OS in a Payroll Company
2:00pm •
A12 Db2 13 for z/OS – DDF Connection Security controls
3:20pm •
A102 Z Data and Application integration for Analytics and AI
4:30pm •
A13 Db2 for z/OS Expert Panel
5:40pm •
A14 DDF Best Practice
Luis
10:20am •
E10 “Stabilize your Dynamic SQL and don’t let it remain Unpredictable”
11:30am •
E11 Exploring Db2 explain facility for the next Gen of Db2 DBAs and using AI to bridge the skills gap.
2:00pm •
E12 SQL Injection on SterAIds: Is Your Db2 Ready for AI-Assisted Attackers?
4:30pm •
E13 Efficient Scans on Columnar Tables
5:40pm •
E14 Detect, analyze and reduce IX Splits using RTS History.
Maria
10:20am •
D10 Make you data comparable by VECTORizing
11:30am •
D11 Db2 LUW's Always On Architecture
2:00pm •
D12 Meta-Programming the Migration: Automating Zero-Disk Loads from Oracle RDS to Db2 OpenShift via Federation and Python
3:20pm •
D102 Your AI Is Only as Good as the Intelligence Behind It
4:30pm •
D13 Db2 LUW Table Partition Management
5:40pm •
D14 Db2 for z/OS Tuning Techniques: Practical Strategies for Maximum Performance
Miragaia
10:20am •
F10 AI Agents Meet Mainframe: Building MCP Servers on Replicated Db2 z/OS Data
11:30am •
F11 SQL Oldies but Goodies and the Power of the SQL Rewrite
2:00pm •
F12 Hidden in Plain Sight: Unlocking Db2 for z/OS Recovery Capabilities at NatWest
4:30pm •
F13 Do you think you know pureScale? Come test your knowledge
5:40pm •
F14 Beyond COPY: Modern Recovery Strategies in Db2 for z/OS—Balancing Speed, Resilience, and Automation
Noble
10:30am •
IDUG Db2 for z/OS Essentials
Porto
10:20am •
C10 Experiences with the AI Query Optimiser
11:30am •
C11 Advanced Performance Diagnostics for SQL
2:00pm •
C12 DB2 Backup and Recovery - back to the basics
3:20pm •
C102 Smart Db2 Administration (z/LUW)
4:30pm •
C13 A brief history of a query: from the PreparedStatement to the ResultSet - how queries gets executed in Db2 database?
5:40pm •
C14 Db2 for LUW Expert Panel
S. João
9:00am •
IDUG Badging
9:00am •
IDUG Certification
Thursday
, October 1
Archive
10:00am •
Coffee Break
Arrabida
9:00am •
B15 Db2 Analytics Accelerator: V8, Migration experiences, future and customer updates
10:20am •
B16 From Lilliput to Brobdingnag. Compression flavors in Db2 for z/OS
11:30am •
B17 Leave the dark side – Turn on the lights in Db2 performance management
Glass 1
9:00am •
IDUG Db2 for LUW Essentials
Infante
9:00am •
A15 JC Greatest Hits, War Stories and Best Practice 2026
10:20am •
A16 Get ready for Db2 version 13+1
11:30am •
A17 DB2 for z/OS Workfile Deep Dive - How to Survive and Thrive
12:40pm •
K4 Computer and Data Ethics - What it is and Why it Matters to Data Professionals
2:30pm •
A203 From Problem SQL to Proven Gains: Tuning Performance on Db2 for z/OS
Level 2 Foyer
1:45pm •
Lunch for Workshop Attendees
Luis
9:00am •
E15 Vibe Coding with a Serverless Database
10:20am •
E16 Getting Started with OpenTelemetry for Db2: Metrics, Traces, and What They Really Mean
11:30am •
E17 Db2 13 for z/OS – Security updates
2:30pm •
B203 Hands-on Lab: Performing AI Queries with SQL Data Insights Pro
Maria
9:00am •
D15 Db2 Upgrade Lessons the Manuals Don’t Teach You
10:20am •
D16 Db2 as Containerized Deployment
11:30am •
D17 Using Db2 for more than just relational data
2:30pm •
C203 Amazon RDS for Db2 Workshop
Miragaia
9:00am •
F15 Db2 Load – Strategies to speed up loading very large tables
10:20am •
F16 Db2 Connect – New Challenges and New Opportunities
11:30am •
F17 Architecting the Perfect Restore: Mastering Db2 Copies, and Compliance
Porto
9:00am •
C15 A Modern Approach to Db2 Backup & Recovery: Snapshot Technology with Cloud Integration
10:20am •
C16 Fine-Tuning Db2 Datalake Tables Performance
11:30am •
C17 Accelerating AI Workloads in Db2 v12.1.5.0: Introducing High‑Performance Vector Indexes
S. João
9:00am •
IDUG Badging
9:00am •
IDUG Certification
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