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George Lapis

 

Presentation:  IBM Data Studio

 

"Data Studio overview" IBM Data Studio is a comprehensive suite of data management tools that will simplify the design, development, deployment and management of your enterprise data, databases and database applications. With IBM Data Studio you can speed application design, development, and deployment while increasing data access efficiency and performance. This presentation we will discuss all the major components of Data Studio followed by demo of some of them.

Biography:

George Lapis is a technical manager at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab.He has worked in database software for more than 30 years. He was a member of R* and Starburst research projects at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He also was a member of the compiler development team for several releases of DB2 Universal Database. His expertise is mostly in compiler technology and implementation. For the last several years he has lead the compiler development team at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, California working on SQL, XML, and XQuery for DB2 Universal Database. Most recently he is working in Data Studio enablement area.

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Craig Friske

 

 

Presentation:  DB2 for z/OS Utilities Update

 

This talk will focus largely upon the significant enhancements provided by DB2 utilities in DB2 9 for z/OS. In addition, we will cover some recent changes that are provided in the maintenance stream for both V8 and V9, and that are therefore of immediate importance to anyone running either version. Finally, we will take a quick look at where we may be heading in future. This talk is for anyone wishing to fully exploit utilities' capabilities today and who wishes to plan for what's coming next.

 

Presentation:  DB2 for z/OS Utilities Best Practices

 

This presentation reviews a set of performance, availability, and usability best practices when using the utility suite of DB2 V8 and DB2 9 for z/OS Utilities. We will cover the most significant keyword specifications that should be specified for utilities, uncover the features hidden in the SORTNUM elimination Apar, discuss the value of Real-Time Statistics, and touch on how often to run REORG and RUNSTATS. Upon completion of this session, the attendee, whose skill level may range from low to high, will be able to apply recommendations in their shop to exploit the best features when running utilities.

Biography:

Craig is a Senior Software Engineer in the DB2 for z/OS Utilities development group with twenty years of experience working on DB2 at the Silicon Valley Lab. He has worked on numerous enhancements within the areas of utilities and availability, and he was the project lead for the Online REORG and Online Schema Evolution enhancements.

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Lal Jawahar Presentation:  DB2 9.5 Fast Backup and Restore using Flash Copy/Snapshot Feature

 

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Biography:

Lal Jawahar has 13 years of experience as DB2 DBA, performance engineer and Enterprise application solution architect. He is certified DB2 DBA. Currently, he is working at NetApp as manager IBM alliance engineering. He was deeply involved in storage Snapshot integration with IBM DB2. He has co-authored number of DB2 technical papers, Red-books and Red papers. He holds MS degree in computer science and currently pursuing MBA from Kenan-Flagler UNC.

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